I am still counting and recording blessing after blessing.

It makes me think of the hymn “Count Your Blessings.”

I keep singing it in my head.

Ok, here we go!

Thursday afternoons at David and Kayla’s place.

Super blessed.

Nature’s candy. Sweet blessing.

I may or may not have eaten the whole pint at once.

A sweet 5th grader brought this to me one morning when he had a math question.

Smartest boy I know! And a blessing to me.

Did you hear we got USCIS clearance and our Dossier is making its way to China?????!!!!

It arrived at its last U.S. stop today!

SO blessed.

Books. Cuddles. Littles.

Have you heard about these blessings before too?

Cute snacks.

Still a blessing though they were very messy.

Blessed that Kayla likes to wear fancy shoes too!

Took this photo heading off the ridge at 5:30.

That’s 5:30 p.m.

It is still day light!

A blessed promise of things to come…

Sister love.

Blessed.

Grain-free granola.

I need to hide it next time I make it.

She loves to be held.

Super, duper blessed.

Laughter.

We are never short on that blessing around here!

Making cookies at Tayla’s.

We love you, Tayla!

Found this photo on my phone from one year ago.

Blessed me so much.

I miss you, Dad.

“Count your blessings – name them one by one.

Count your many blessings – see what God hath done!”

**We are not traveling to Madison for sedated testing tomorrow after all! Eliza’s appointments were moved to March 9th because of doctor availability.

I am home today with two littles.

Two littles with some seriously runny noses.

Kayla took the rest of the kiddos to Grandma Lillie’s house to help, to clean, and I am sure eat a lunch fit for a king.

Grandma Lillie’s house always means a very yummy meal.

We had soup for lunch.

And I was very thankful that the other kiddos were not sitting across the table when Eliza sneezed a mouthful of soup that landed right where they would have been.

That was fun to clean up!

These munchkins are still in their pjs.

And for most of the morning also had on hooded sweat shirts with the hoods up.

I have tissues placed at low levels in each room with a trash can by each box.

Yes. I like to plan ahead.

We have cuddled, read books, played cards, made some waffles for the freezer, ate (and sneezed) some soup, colored, built a fort with blankets, glued, cut with scissors….

It has been a fun filled littles day!!

I am also watching the grand pup for Kayla.

She is SO high maintenance, can you tell?

There might have been a blender full of chunky monkey made.

Ok, there was.

But the sweet pea that asked for it has the most adorable Asian eyes, and even said please.

We will be praying that Eliza will be well enough for her sedated Urodynamics study and MRI this Wednesday in Madison. Runny nose, go away!

Praise the Lord the sun is shining!!

Time for some hangman with a little man in camouflage!

Happy Monday, everyone!

We had some indoor winter fun after being invited to an open ice skating time with some friends!

I stayed behind the glass in the lobby where it was nice and warm, but I could see everyone the whole time.

Addie Mae pushed Eliza around the ice in her stroller – which she loved!

After Eliza was tired of that, she joined me to have snacks.

Everyone else skated to the last possible second!

David and Kayla were there too!

What a fun evening! I love seeing these kiddos get exercise while having so much fun!

We have started a trend for Saturday nights lately. Either skiing or skating!

We have some very tired kiddos today!

We are enjoying winter very much, but are starting to think about spring……

Guess what our little peanut is no longer afraid of?

Not only that, guess what she loves?

We had another snowy day Tuesday, and now we have quite a bit of beautiful snow.

The boys started to head outside to sled, and little miss started screaming “SIDE! SIDE! SIDE!”

So we bundled her up and sent her out too!

I wondered how long it would be before I heard the back door open with someone returning her to me.

It didn’t happen!

She went down the hill many, many times!

After that, she ran all over the farm while the boys built forts!

Oh Eliza Claire, you have come SO far!

We are so proud of all the confidence you have gained!

These guys were ALL outside over THREE hours. Crazy kids!

When Eliza came in and I started asking her “Did you like to sled? Did you like to walk in the snow? Did you like to climb in the forts?” she answered each question with “Uh huh!”

And then she said “I tired, Mom!”

I can’t imagine why, sweet baby! You had snow much fun!!

Thanks, Grant, for helping the kiddos have such a fun day!