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Striving again to list God's moments of grace more regularly, to help maintain the habit... From the end of last week and the weekend: - Enjoying a breather week - Delighting in an entire week with the most beautiful sunshine and absence of wind (a rarity here in the spring time) - Looking out the window to my kiddos doing this (because they wanted to!) - Game night with Mexican Train ... And Adrianna understanding how to play it for real ... And Grandma and Grandpa being able to come - Saturday morning pancakes (this time with quinoa flour) - Taking the kids out to look for the "waterfall" (it's been three years since we've actually seen it flow :)  - Making homemade chocolate bars  (sweetened naturally!)  - Making an ice cream shirt with Adrianna ... "Mom, I know what I want on that white shirt: an ice cream cone!" - Fort building ... And her being big enough to do it on her own - Taking an afternoon trip to our nearby landmark ......

It's always when you think the habit is firmly grounded, and you give a little too much slack that the problems arise.  I gave myself a little too much slack in maintaining an attitude of thankfulness.  I began losing the habit.  Abel's defiance combined with feeling poorly from allergies brought me to too many moments of frustration, too many gripes, grievances, complaints... and too few praises to the One who gives me each moment of this life with my kids and my husband. Just in time, last weekend, God gave me a refreshing, a wake up reminder.  We had a women's conference at church, and as always, I had to force myself to attend.  For an introvert like me, sometimes a conference feels like an overwhelming social extravaganza.  As I sat through the sessions, fighting a virus that probably should have kept me home (I hope I didn't cause anyone else's illness!), God reminded me again (how can I ever forget?!) of His goodness, kindness, grace.  The tim...