Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 301

Today's Daily 5:

1. an unexpected and grace-filled late night conversation last night
2. laughing over a Garfield cartoon
3. catching and killing the mosquito that somehow got into my bedroom BEFORE I feel asleep and got eaten by it
4. a chuckle over this blog post
5. a morning walk, and the corner store having the item I needed to finish baking
6. the smell of banana bread baking, as it fills the house
7. baby N's giggles
8. recognizing healing
9. encouraging conversation
10. the beginning of an impromptu project
11. the joy that I find in watching friends and family eat and enjoy something I've prepared
12. "redemption comes in strange places, small spaces"
13. laughing over kid's Sunday school songs stuck in my head ("Life without Jesus is like a donut, like a donut, like a donut.  Life without Jesus is like a donut, 'cause there's a hole in the middle of your heart."  "Hip hip hip hippopotamus, hip hip hooray God made all of us..." "Have patience, have patience, don't be in such a hurry..."  "I've got a river of life flowing out of me, makes the lame to walk and the blind to see..." and any number of Psalty and/or GT and the Halo Express tunes were floating through my head)
14. jello
15. the blessing of online friends

I Need Your Help

Okay everyone, either tomorrow or Wednesday I'm planning to start posting answers to some of the questions you left for me.  But, here's the problem.  I need a fun name for this series.  And I'm drawing a blank.  So, I need some help. 

What should we call it?

Reasons This is Going to be a Good Monday

I woke up from some kind of rough dreams this morning, and I'm not feeling great.  So, I'm lying here reminding myself of the lovely things I have to look forward to today:

• Because three hours from now, my dear friend A, and her daughter N are coming to hang out with me for the afternoon
• Because it's Bachelorette day
• Because I have another full week of housesitting ahead of me
• Because there is leftover Banana cream pie in the fridge
• Because the weather forecast for the day is fairly warm and mostly sunny
• Because I'm going to make jello
• and banana bread
• and maybe cookies
• Because there is chocolate in the world
• and some of my favorite television shows are available on DVD
• Because I have reasons to smile, and I'm going to choose to enjoy them