Maybe time flies when you’re having fun.
But it’s oozy and lovely and rich and brimming and beautiful and heavy and sad and slow and exquisite and real – when you’re giving thanks.
One thousand four hundred and twenty-eight delicious blessings still to count this year.
This week, 39 things:
547 Reading Washington Square by Henry James
548 Limbs
549 Top Gear
550 Brothers playing together – raucous happy games in their own make-believe world
551 Thera-band for stretching
552 Facebook likes
553 Emmental
554 Salami
555 Encouragement to raise good men – not nice guys
556 Three birthdays to celebrate in one week
557 Baking Cam a volcano birthday cake
558 Mountains of assignments to mark for UNISA – the bitter-sweet promise of cash / suspension of sanity
559 Old-school party games, like pass-the-parcel (or, pass-the-volcanic-rock)
560 Hugs between five-year-olds
561 Lamb done in the slow-cooker
562 Mechanics who know about replacing oil pumps
563 Leftover cake
564 Scott and Emily (both 2 ½) engrossed in profound – intense – conversation
565 Cam – so grownup on the phone – thanking all the birthday callers
566 Sabbath
567 Murray making pizza
568 John Piper’s faithfulness – his incredible, eternal legacy
569 And the way he has finished well
570 Candle-lit bath
571 Strange satisfaction of sneezing
572 Ancient classic Disney movie – 101 Dalmatians – slow and clear and wholesome – animations outlined and easy for Cam to see
573 Scott-love at bedtime – yawning and leaning heavy and soft – ‘I tired.’
574 Antibiotics for ear infections
575 Our support system – deep as it is wide
576 Sincerity
577 A walk around the block
578 Conviction
579 Early morning fresh and crisp of autumn breakfast sunshine through the blinds
580 Farming out the boys to Nanna or Granny so I can Get Stuff Done
581 Soft socks
582 My greengrocer down the hill – always knocking off ten bucks when I buy flowers
583 Rusks drying in the oven
584 Five years of loving my Cameron
585 Peace in God’s timeless punctuality
Dalene Reyburn 
