Multitude Mondays

Our summer has been busy and my weekly gratitude list has gone by the wayside, but we have had plenty to be thankful for.....

842.   return to Silver Lake camping for the Oesterles....watching the soccer playoff game...riding in Kip's Jeep....devotion time and singing songs from our youth

843.  tradition of walking the dunes...big cousins carrying little cousins...people yelling which way to go...thinking, "This has to be the last hill!"

844.  sharing experiences only with my daughter....putting on Rachelle's baby shower, washing dishes together at camping (don't ask me why this last one is just a mother/daughter thing...my boys have hands too....) 

845.  Benny's first camp experience at Camp Barakel....how I missed him all week!!

846.  the end of Moose season  

847.  the blessing TEC was in Jake's walk and seeing my eldest FREE 
848.  tradition of camping with the Sinnaeve family - this year @ Sand Lake and Lake Michigan, Manistee

849.  playing Egg-Chicken-Dinosaur w/ Sinnaeve family - pure silliness!

850.  swimming goggles and funny faces

851.  girl-time for Madeline

852.  Grandpa & Grandma Sinnaeve's family building ideas

853.  joy and unchecked interest in feeling a baby girl growing

854. camping at Mom & Dad Oesterle's with Townsends

855. watching my youngest and his interest in fishing

856.  crazy-poker-cardplaying-cousins

857.  powdered sugar covered smiles

858.  Ben joining Charis and I this year in cleaning ~50 fish

859.  yummy fried fish

860. camping alone for a few days before being joined by the Dysarts

861. 4 exhausting, beautiful days of Unity Festival
862.  burying kids in the sand

863.  Ga-Ga dirt-covered kids, dirt was up their noses, all over their face, hands, arms and legs
864.  laughter

865.  watching sunset over Lake Michigan

866.  coming home
867.  Allie's bowling birthday party

868.  Isaiah's decision to be baptized

869. Saturday cleaning on a Friday - it has been too long!
870. Francis Chan podcasts and conviction and truth
871. 20 years of marriage, with all it's ups and downs

872. God's creations...walkingstick...large blue spotted salamander...frogs...kittens....degu...hedgehog

873. Elisabeth Elliott sermon mp3's
874.  Oreo, our new kitten...he showed up on our church bench late one night with the dogs circling him, once he realized he was safe he wouldn't let me stop petting him and he was very thin...since then he's gotten fat and loves to follow the kids around in the woods and still loves to be petted...a few days after having him around, Nater was trying to ask where he was and he said, "Where's smore's?"  He remembered that we named him some kind of food item, but got it mixed up.

875. practicing the discipline of slowing down