4.sleeping children

5.tiny toes backward bent, peas in a pod

6.the snooze/snuggle button

7.morning coffee, hot

8.digging our first potato crop(planted from little bits of rotting, sprouting potatoes)..."the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown"

9.Finding an unknown, very good book

10.a book read in peace to children while work lay undone, waiting

11.thorny lessons..."seed among the thorns choked by life's worries, riches, pleasures and they do not mature" lk 8.14 What are my thorns?

12.my sunrise "good morning"
Is this just for me?

13.forgotten keys...needing a ride home...conversation, friendship

14.receiving

15.cricket song, singing glory everlasting
breathing in turns while the song sings on...

16.hope brought by dawn...all the possibilities...
change this heart of mine...continue Your good work as You, in Your Grace, raise in my sunrise of life humility, joy, kindness, gratitude, endurance...
may the noontime expose the cobwebs to be swept out, the piles of heart to be tidied and disposed of...

17.light-washing peace...

18.forever friends...laughing, talking, sharing life

19.patience, given

20.kind words

21.fellowship..."beautiful feet"

22.recorded memories, shared

23.tree silhouette in fog

24.skin...touch (how I forget this, how my kids need it, as well)

25.6:00 AM quiet

26.green tea (no let down like coffee)

27.the eager smile of a 7-year-old artist

28.tea...homemade cookies...a good book..time...quiet

29.squishy baby-fat legs...one more year

30.diapers, changed

31.faith, recorded by clouds of witnesses

32.leaves, discovered

33.blanket spider web on the ground, seen only by those who reach it before the sun

34.fellowship of mothers

35.the smell of cool weather approaching each day

36.nap, uninterrupted...(mine!)

37.sleepy, groggy, huggy children (after nap)

38."sleeping truck, thunder, lightening, lamby" (a boy's imagination)

39.washing machine working while I read

40.time-telling toes of little ones

41.warm, fresh bread & muffins

42.a 3-yr-old's determination with cooking (peeling & cutting beets)

43.Emma June's focus

44.opening a package

45.farm of friends

46.feeding a friendly horse

47.perfect weather

48.full table...full tummies...full hearts

49.shared burdens

50.giving them (the burdens) up..the FREEDOM!

51.another beginning (Mondays)

52.perfect rest