I’m Blessed

It seems as though I have picked up on the little cold that Solveig and Elias have been hanging onto for the last week or so.  It’s really not too terribly bad.  I was certain I wouldn’t sleep at all last night, and I actually slept really hard…except when I had to get up with Solveig at 4am because she needed a new diaper.

At any rate, it’s Monday morning, and I need to focus on some blessings.  Won’t you join me?

I’m blessed with a cold that is forcing me to drink the herbal pregnancy tea that my midwife has been wanting me to have 2 cups a day.  It’s hot liquids all day long for this sore throat.  1 cup of coffee, 2 cups of pregnancy tea, multiple cups of other teas.  This cold is forcing me into submission.  I’d been only have 1 cup every other day, and now I’m so on board.

Yesterday, I had an amazing photos hoot for my new Clarity cardigan to be released at the end of this week.  I edited all the pictures and already formatted the whole pattern.  The only thing stopping me from publishing it right now is I’m waiting for the final word from my tech editor in a few days.  I’m trying so hard to be disciplined because once my side of the work is done, I really want to put it out there!  I’m trying to be disciplined, because I’m sure she’s going to find some mistakes.  She always does.

The photo shoot ended up taking, like 15 minutes because every shot was perfect.  I’m blessed to have married into a beautiful family so I had a handful of models to choose from:

I’m so excited about this pattern.  The anticipation is killing me…in a good way.

I’m blessed that I can’t yell at my kids today, because of my throat, and will be forced to use better parenting techniques.  Colds are great bad-habit breakers for this mommy.

I was so blessed yesterday when Knut made our family pumpkin pancakes for breakfast.  In fact, I’m just blessed with Fall flavors in general lately: cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice.  Does any other season have such amazing flavors that seem to fill the house?

THE ROOSTERS ARE GONE! (Or I should say, have been moved to my freezer.)  The dirty job was done this weekend, and I couldn’t be happier about that.  What a huge blessing.  Looking over our hens afterwards, which is the first chance I’ve had for awhile, it really hit me how war-torn they all were.  We have witnessed 4-5 of the roosters pounce on one hen at a time, pecking out feathers and pinning her down, and many of the girls have missing feathers and bald heads now.  We’re not getting eggs (well, we’re at 1 egg every other day right now), but I recently heard they stop producing them when they’re growing in new feathers.  At any rate, our girls are on the mend.  It may take them awhile to recover, but I’m so blessed to have those mean birds away from them.

We’re still lingering on the high of a wonderful harvest over at our house.  I can’t seem to get over how good everything went, and what a good year it was.  We are so blessed.  I know people ask “why me?” or “why us?” when things go wrong, but I seem to find myself asking God that when things go really well.  To me that boggles my brain even more.  The sinners we are, the number of mistakes we make, and knowing full well our inadequacies, why us?  Why did God choose to bless us?  I don’t know, but I do know that I will praise Him for it.  His blessings boggle my mind most of the time, but what can you do but just praise Him?

How has God blessed you?  This is a wonderful Monday morning exercise.  (Especially if you’re like me and not a morning person…or a Monday person.)  I love reading how God has blessed you too, so please share!