3 Gifts Found in Little People

519. Their words. I love to hear them learning new words and using them - sometimes correctly, sometimes not. But you can just see their minds growing and learning. I. Love. This.

520. Their energy. Wow. I love to watch them run and play. Turn cartwheels and somersaults. 

520. Their purity of heart. That is a beautiful gift. 

A Gift Light, Dark, In the Shadow

516. A Gift Light: On days with the grands, it's always nice to wake up to sunshiny skies. Knowing we can spend a fun day outdoors. 

517. A Gift Dark: On days with the grands I  always look forward to bedtime! They wear me out!

518. A Gift in the shadow: When we are outside with the grands and it is summer hot, I always look for a shadow to stand in!

A Gift Bent, Beautiful, Loved

513. A Gift Bent: My Mom is losing inches. You know, when they reach an age where they begin getting shorter. This doesn't happen to everyone but to many it does. My Mom, even in her bent condition is a gift to me.

514. A Gift Beautiful: I am truly blessed by the beautiful older people in our church. I love to watch them praise and love on everyone at church. Beauty has NOTHING to do with the way you look, true beauty has to do with who you are - in the inside.

515. A Gift Loved: My husband, my children, my grands, my parents, my extended family, my church family, my friends, etc.

A Gift Sweet, Sour, Salty

510. A Gift Sweet: My favorite cookie is my homemade sugar cookie. I won a Blue Ribbon at the Major County Fair in 1968(?) I think, I mean that's been a few years ago. - Anyway, these are my favorites.

511. A Gift Sour: I remember as a child loving to cut a lemon in half, adding a bit of salt and eating them! I loved to drink the pickle juice out of the dill pickle jar. I don't indulge to that extent anymore, now my "sour" love is a good Limeade from Sonic!!

512. A Gift Salty: I love going to a good movie and getting some popcorn and a soda! We don't go to many movies but when we do we always share a big box of this salty treat. Our latest was Despicable Me 2. 

3 Gifts Baked

507.  

Birthday Cake for our Life Group.

508.

My favorite Sugar Cookies.

(sent some to Jonathan)

509.

When I make a trip to Weatherford I always ask

Jonathan if he wants me to bring food.

He loves Bierocks and often asks for them.

They are easy to freeze.

3 Gifts You Became Today in Serving

My friend Audra taking donations at our

Youth Fundraiser.

504. A Server:

I served baked beans to the left of the husband.

505. A Photographer for the fun event:

Jordan always gives me a pose!

 

Twins?

and of course - The Preacher!!

(it was a gift in serving as the photographer - I didn't say I was good at it!!!)

506. A Gift in Cleaning up:

Many times, the true fellowship, happens in the kitchen!! 

3 Gifts From Childhood

501. My parents raised me in a small church in our small town. No other gift is as important to me as the foundation for my faith.

502. I lived on a farm. That alone was a gift for me. As a teen I didn't think this way! But as a child I did and as an adult looking back I realize how blessed I truly was.

503. I was a reader. One of my fondest memories is reading books, then acting them. We had a concrete square over our septic tank and this was a perfect "stage" for acting out books.  It became a house, a church,  a school, a business, a courtroom, a boat - anything my mind could imagine was played out on this piece of concrete. A true gift for a child.