It is already Monday night and the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend is almost over. For my Facebook status today, I wrote: I am thankful for "beauty instead of ashes" and for the simple graces that my God gives! Happy Thanksgiving to my family and friends!!!
Our weekend was jam-packed with activity... so much excitement and so much action! We have sooooo much to be thankful for... words aren't adequate enough to express my gratitude to my Heavenly Father for His bountiful blessings.
Here are a few highlights from our weekend...
~ 3 more Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes were requested by a family from my kids' school over the weekend taking the total up to 346 boxes! God just keeps adding to the total --- He has definitely successfully blown my socks off on this one!
~ On Saturday, our family and 15 of our family and friends went to the Daily Bread Food Bank and volunteered to sort food. This is in celebration of hubby's 45th birthday! We are so thankful that many of our family and friends who came to help also brought along food to donate. Others who couldn't join us donated food as well. It was a very fun afternoon celebrating and fighting hunger both at the same time. To top it all off... we even made the news --- both in print and on air! Of the many, many people there volunteering, we are still wondering why the news reporter would pick our group to interview. God must've wanted our story to be heard by many more! Very humbling thought.
~ After volunteering, we had Thanksgiving dinner here at home with the family of hubby's sister. Great times! I successfully made too much food yet again. Burp!
~ Sunday, we took my sister's kids to a local petting zoo. It's been a while since we've been there and it was so much fun!
Here are my kids with their little cousins posing with the pony.
And here I am overcoming my *dislike* of animals and leading the pony on which my nephew is riding on. I'm always amazed at what we, adults, would do for cute little children!!!
~ Today, we went on a nature hike in the woods to soak in the wonderful Autumn colours! The trees are ablaze with God's artistry... so captivating!!! We took along our camera and tripod... and took a few family pictures. We got quite a few good ones that we plan to include in our year end family newsletter. Here's a sneak peek:
Well, another Thanksgiving weekend has come and gone... but, the thankfulness will definitely be staying! As it says in James 1:17 (NIV) --- "Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows." So thankful for that.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!!!
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