I’m Blessed

I’m counting my blessings here this Monday morning.  It’s a good way to start out this week.

I’m thankful for new growth everywhere.  I like to see each year which will win the race to bloom first: the tulips or the daffodils.  The tulips normally win.  This year a little daffodil raced up and popped open, though several tulips were on its heels…if flowers had heels.  Tulips and daffodils make me unbelievably happy, though daffodils especially.  I have so many happy memories involving daffodils.

This last week I got a sitter and spent an afternoon in town to work on a knitting pattern editing.  Getting a sitter had been about 3 weeks in the planning.  It wasn’t until just before I left home that I checked when the library would close, and found out they were closing just when I would be getting to town.  So I decided to go to my favorite coffee shop.  Everything was yummy there, but it was too noisy, so I took my bread pudding and mocha and left.

I ended up driving to a park, so that I could work quietly next to a lake that is in town.  I got some work done in my van, as the sun hit it.  It was so hot in there, and let me tell you, after the winter we just had, I was soaking in the heat like a reptile.  I was quickly distracted by the birds all around, though.  I looked out and saw that the island in the middle of the lake was overtaken by bird’s nests.  I couldn’t help but go for a little walk around this lake and take some pictures.

It was such a sweet time, just listening to nature, and seeing water out on the lake…in liquid form.  It was soul filling.  It wasn’t productive in the pattern writing area, but it was soul filling just the same.

Sunday morning was my last day teaching Sunday School for this school year.  At breakfast yesterday morning, I was thinking how grateful I was that I didn’t have to prepare any Sunday School lessons for a few months, and sleep in (theoretically) Sunday mornings.  That feeling lasted right up until I said goodbye to the kids at church.  About 5 minutes after they left my classroom, I missed them already.  I missed our conversations.  I’ve been so blessed to teach them.  They’re such a great group of kids.