God is Good

The sun is shining this week in Seattle. After an almost record breaking rain streak in January and a huge windstorm over the weekend the sun is a welcome event. It really is an event here. Everyone is outside and running around and things just seem cheerier and less dilapidated.
My oldest daughter was on the swingset for the longest time yesterday, swinging herself and also with her sister on the double glider thing. Her hair is so long flying behind her each time she pumps back. Her little body is so concentrated with the coordination and yet it looks so smooth and polished. I see that she loves the feeling and enjoys sharing it with her little sister.
We made a little prayer book to help us pray for others. In it are mostly the Christmas pictures we received from friends and family this year. It was an idea from a friend's house and it is so great for us all to visualize who we are praying for. Tryn prayed for our little guy in Africa yesterday: "and God bless Felix and keep him so he doesn't die and help him to sleep through the night and wake up with joy in the morning." Pure joy to hear her pray and also remember the Bible stories we are reading. She felt it a critical bit of information to tell one of our single friends at church, "and Samson kill-ded the Philistines." out of the blue of course, which cracked us up.
I am just so grateful for my life and the blessings God heaps on my head. A loving, super smart, diligent husband, three adorable and spirited kids, a church that proclaims God's truth and justice, a house that is cozy and versatile, an extended family with so much personality, my body responding to all the exercise I have put it through, and then The Little Happy Things (lists of which I have made for the last 10 years but not lately)
new MAC lipstick
chocolate, chocolate, chocolate.
A book called "Organizing for your Brain Type"
Magazine subscriptions
Paying off my college loans this month!
Karen Voight Exercise DVD's
It's my Birthday this Month
Getting ebay stuff listed
IKEA-especially on a rainy day
Annika telling me she has poop and needs to be changed
Singing at lunchtime. Tristan trying to sing with us...too cute
Grocery money at the beginning of the month
Snagging new jeans at Goodwill (j.crew and gap)
Two inches lost off my low waist (those were killer situps)
Friends: all of em
hot Starbucks brewed with a shot of cream
Annika running to me and giving me a huge hug and saying Goodmorning!

Time to go!