gratitude: the quality of being thankful #fridayfaves

When I started Friday Favorite Things last February it was an intentional way for me to step back and express gratitude for the things in my life. It was within weeks of my son Samuel’s Celiac Disease and I truly was feeling overwhelmed with life and knew I needed to look at the good in the everyday. When it started it was just something that I was doing on my blog – and after a couple of times and many sweet mentions of opening it up to make it a feature I did. And now, here it is, friday favorite things in it’s 71st week. I am so blessed by the community that has formed and the weeks and weeks and weeks of gratitude that has been expressed. Humbled. Grateful. And thankful.

Here are this week’s favorite things:

left on the chalkboard

by my Hannah 

before she left for Texas

loved them

{this is amazing}

I just might have watched it 

for the entire flight home for Hannah.

And let everyone know that she was 39000 feet in the air

travelling at 510 mph.

Ackk – be still my mother’s heart!

reading books

and sitting at the table

sigh

where did my little boy go?

no other words needed

except

love his books.

make sure to come back later today

as I’m doing a review of

Dove’s Body Wash

{seriously}

and there’s a great giveaway to go along with it.

chloe helped out 

and watched samuel play out in the yard
{love my growing garden}

while I quickly made dinner.

or a sword fights

two brothers

on a late july afternoon

summer jousting away.

clouds reflecting in sunglasses
ah memories
of the first morning back from
our first weekend of vacation
they’re like dreams now.

a perfect ending

to this week’s favorite things.