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Thankful Tuesday

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July 2012

July 31, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Olympics, Karolyi, Family Dinner

Yesterday morning my husband let me sleep while he got up with the kids (for...

July 17, 2012

Thankful Tuesday, from a soup kitchen

I’m writing from a soup kitchen in the French Quarter in New Orleans. Here there...

July 10, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Cousins Camp ’12

It is late on Monday night and tomorrow we will be driving away from Cousin...

July 03, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Birthdays, Bookshelves, Old/New friends, Green Drink, and on and on…

You know that problem you have when you show up at a new friend’s...

June 2012

June 26, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: East Coast Trip Recap

We’re home! It was a sweet trip. And it was long (two weeks!). We left...

June 19, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: 8 Years

Christopher, when we were first dating, riding in cars together, my fingers running through the...

June 12, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Off to Philadelphia!

I’m up late trying to get my posts for the week set in place before...

June 05, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Attending to the wonder

What if we stood up and took notice when we say "wow"? Awe is an...

May 2012

May 29, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Memorial Day Edition

Parents who will drive eight hours and spend money on a hotel room on the...

May 22, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: The Angry Stomach Virus Edition

What a week! It included: The Stomach Bug Incident of 2012, which took over my...

May 15, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: A History. And the First Ever Thankful Tuesday Link-Up Partaaaaay!!!

You might be shocked to hear that Thankful Tuesday did not begin as a somewhat...

May 08, 2012

Thankful: thunderstorms, parties, and the (lack of) electricity

Oh, I’ve missed big spring thunderstorms in Texas, how they hit at 7:30 at night,...

May 01, 2012

Tomato Thankful

This bright red tomato just picked from our garden. On the last day of April???...

April 2012

April 24, 2012

Quoting Thankful

Today for Thankful Tuesday, I want to give you some words I heard over the...

April 17, 2012

A list of gifts on a Tuesday

For a Saturday date night and one long, happy dinner conversation with the Mister For...

April 13, 2012

A Very Thankful Poem-a-Day Friday

I've missed our Thankful Tuesdays, friends! So much so that my mind has been filling...

March 2012

March 27, 2012

Dirty House Thankful

Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will tell you what...

March 20, 2012

Good Thankful

For a sweet birthday celebration. Look at that guy in his hat! For a backyard...

March 13, 2012

Fainting + Blistery Walks + Baptisms and New Churches = Thankful

A Thankful Tuesday List: My tendency to hit my funny bone and faint is kind...

March 06, 2012

Thankful Hopeful

Living in Texas where sunsets look like this from the back deck Rocking side by...

February 2012

February 28, 2012

Hard Thankful

"One act of thanksgiving, when things go wrong with us, is worth a thousand thanks...

February 21, 2012

Fat Tuesday Thankful

Writing posts two nights in a row at 11 pm because I spent the evening...

February 14, 2012

A Very Valentine-y Thankful Tuesday

It's Valentines Day! If you are reading this in the morning, I am probably in...

February 07, 2012

The Man Love Raised: A Thankful Tuesday post

Last night, my 89-year-old grandfather fell and hit his head and broke his hip. I...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

Vroooom Thankful

That my baby has learned how to use sound effects when pushing his brother's cars...

January 24, 2012

‘The hours illuminated and celebrated’: Thankful Tuesday

"Cast out from the luxuriant friendship and ease of the hours, we feel a blankness,...

January 17, 2012

Donut-7 Rocket Thankful

Oh, friends. I'm writing this on Monday night. It's 9:15 and Chris and I have...

January 10, 2012

Thanking: rain and swim lessons, light-up shoes and Epiphany

This boy who loves his new swim class. (And the husband who spends Saturday morning...

January 03, 2012

New Year Thankful

For these boys in red on Christmas night. Christmas with them is always Christmas at...

December 2011

December 20, 2011

Thankful Tuesday: Christmas Travel Edition!

Having a friend like Jamie in Austin, who was up all night with her 4-month-old...