July Blessings

July has been full of challenges, but also full of blessings as God teaches us everyday. It's nice to look back during this crazy month and see how God has given us so much that we don't deserve.

1. Getting 4 hours of sleep
2. Taking a nap
3. Getting adjusted
4. Getting the ball rolling for taking care of lead outside
5. Going dress shopping with the girls
6. Frozen yogurt
7. Time to read and pray
8. Free Chick-fil-A breakfast sandwiches
9. Nehemiah having a good doctor appointment
10. Time to nap
11. A little time with Jim
12. Gabriel greeting Nehemiah in the morning
13. Lillian doing catechism with Nehemiah
14. Taking J, L, R, and N to see "Inside Out"
15. Thinking about emotions more and what mine are doing
16. Sleeping in
17. Panera for lunch
18. Hanging out
19. Watching the kids and my sisters dance
20. Sam dancing with everybody
21. Great sermon on prayer
22. Remembering prayer is about relationship
23. Restful afternoon
24. Taking a short nap
25. Robin bringing us dinner
26. Watching the women's World Cup final
27. Nehemiah doing 2 four hour stretches
28. All of the kids napping in the afternoon
29. Pizza and a movie
30. Nehemiah only getting up once to eat
31. Going to playgroup for a bit
32. Starting Nehemiah's calendar
33. Going to CG
34. Talking with Jim and spending some quiet moments together
35. Working on journals
36. Nice and productive date night with Jim
37. Ice cream pie
38. Sharing my heart
39. Hearing great news from Robin
40. Sleeping until 9
41. Lazy day at home
42. Reading together
43. Jamey reading to his siblings
44. Gabriel sleeping in the bunk bed
45. Nehemiah sleeping 6 hours
46. 9 hours of sleep
47. Meeting with Dawn
48. Meeting Josiah
49. Yummy sandwich
50. Jamey getting school work done
51. Relaxing family day at home
52. Having Ryan over for dinner
53. Watching "Mom's Night Out" for a double date night in
54. Learning about God's Kingdom and what it means to pray for it to come
55. Attempting to take family pictures
56. Getting to sleep until 10:30
57. Robinette's bringing us dinner
58. Writing some blog posts
59. Good conversation with Jim
60. Nehemiah sleeping 7 hours
61. Going to playgroup
62. Good conversations with friends
63. Fun girls night
64. Getting more blog posts written
65. Family outing to Krispy Kreme
66. Groupons
67. Sam turning 15 months
68. Getting a few more pictures made
69. Making it through Jim's first day back at work
70. Everyone napping but Lillian
71. Lillian reading all the books downstairs
72. Sarah and Klyde coming to hang out
73. Making it through Jim's second day back at work
74. Encouraging words from Audrey
75. Sara and Kelsey bringing a delicious dinner
76. Positive answers to prayers
77. Getting our to-do lists done
78. Going to the library for a bit
79. Great sermon on Radical Faith
80. Reception for the Honay family
81. Being around international missions people
82. Making it through the day on little sleep
83. Time with God
84. God never leaving me
85. All kids napping for 4 or more hours
86. Book Club
87. Jamey changing Sam's diaper
88. Kids' playing well together
89. Sleep until 9
90. Really sharing my feelings with Jim
91. The kids playing on a sprayground and enjoying it
92. Nehemiah sleeping 8 hours
93. Fun time at CG
94. Making it through the day without extra hands
95. Jamey caring for Nehemiah
96. Wanting to be with Jim
97. Being able to share my heart with Jim again
98. Having a God who knows and understands me perfectly
99. Reading with Becca
100. Dancing
101. Talking with Jim about irrational feelings
102. Learning to be OK with the unknown
103. Kids playing in the water at the park
104. Time to talk with Ashley
105. Meeting another co-op mom
106. Time to work on things
107. Good date night
108. Talking with Jim
109. Meeting with other women to talk about food and glorifying God
110. Productive afternoon
111. Relaxing evening
112. Learning more about prayer
113. Taking a nap
114. House napping
115. Reading with Jim and talking
116. Signing up for co-op classes
117. Sleep
118. Really productive day
119. Cleaning and organizing
120. Getting coffee with Jim
121. Just talking and laughing together again
122. Breanne bringing us dinner
123. Spending time with Audrey, Gemma and Jasper
124. Getting calendar and journal done
125. Nehemiah turning 1 month
126. Jen bringing dinner
127. Getting stuff ready for yard sale
128. Sam making it through a long day away from home
129. Julianne bringing dinner
130. Half-priced cheesecake
131. Jim and I growing in communication
132. Nehemiah sleeping 7 1/2 hours
133. Sam giving Nehemiah kisses
134. Really encouraging visit with the Felix family
135. Making it the majority of the day by myself
136. Getting emails written
137. Nehemiah sleeping 7 hours
138. Taking 6 kids to the park solo
139. Reading with Becca
140. Talking to Brit
141. Finding out she is expecting a healthy baby girl
142. Jamey telling me I'm the best mom in the world even when I get mad