Friday Blessings ~ 3.75

Thanks again to Kim at Daily Blessings for hosting this six-week challenge to recognize the blessings we enjoy throughout our week. We are supposed to be on week four, but I'm still lagging behind.

After my last couple of posts, I needed to give thanks for some good things. This week was a week of wonderful surprises, and the best one was this little darlin.’ Let me introduce you to Sophia Renee, born July 22 at 10:37 p.m.  (She was about three weeks early, but is just perfect.)

Her mom, a new friend of mine, is a bubbly bundle of a spirit-filled woman. I have known very few people in my life with a faith as strong as hers. Sophie joins her mom and two big sisters in a home full of love and happiness.

I told you last week that my men folk were off at a men’s only weekend adventure. Well, the boy came through big time. I had fully expected to only get a cursory photo of the person I requested and it being only a blurred shot of Patrick ‘Dr. McDreamy’ Dempsey whizzing by at over 100 mph. But, instead WK surprised me with this one ~ a full-on face shot, grill glinting and all.

I was also surprised by this generous gift from my bloggy pal Beany, at So Grateful to be Mormon. Beany, or Kathleen as some of you might know her, was one of my very first blog pals. She is also the only one I have spoken on the phone with, all the way from Alaska. Can’t get much further away than that from Florida and still be in the U.S. Thank you, you are a sweetie.

After nearly two whole weeks of watching what I stuffed into my face, I was also surprised to find that not only had I lost a fair amount of weight (which Hubs said he noticed), but I was also able to return those two monstrosities that made me cry, and bought instead two new dresses, in smaller sizes thankyouverymuch! I’m blessed that my very good friend is getting married this weekend to wonderful man who so obviously loves her and her sons. It’s like a modern-day fairytale, and I get to be a witness to their happiness. As vain as it sounds, I will be able to enjoy that day so much more when I’m not kvetching over having to wear something I was not at all happy about.

(As a side note… not so much a blessing, except for those bloggers who were getting tired of my WWII fly-girl avi, I want to introduce my newest avatar. For the story behind why I picked this one, go here. If you see this film fatale showing up in your comments, it’s just me playing dress up. For giggles, I also included the progression of avatars I’ve used. I’m probably missing one or two, but these were the ones I used most often. )

(Another side note… if you check up top on my nav bar, you’ll see that I updated the ‘You Are Here’ tab. If you click on that you’ll find a lovely Google map of Florida ~ where this blog originates ~ along with a couple of local photos. You’ll also find that I am totally stealing Ashley’s idea of finding out where my visitors live. Please sign in on ‘You Are Here’ page, leaving a comment about who you are and where you’re home is. It would be a great blessing to me to see how far you all come to visit ‘little ol’ me.’ I would add one of those cool map thingys that do this for me automatically, but I am on WordPress, therefore widget disadvantaged.)