Thankful Thursday . . . late.

I have so much to be thankful for these past few weeks.  Some days have been very trying emotionally . . . some days have been physically exhausting . . . but all days have been filled with the greatest of blessings.

I am thankful that yesterday morning (two days post-op) my baby bird's biggest complaint was not her raw, tonsil missing throat, or her broken elbow wrapped up in a heavy pink cast, no --her biggest complaint was a small hangnail on her right thumb.  I guess a girl can only take so much!  After some neosporyn, a band-aid, and a dose of pain reliever she was . . .

back in the swing of things, and well enough to attend her 

Pre-K class's Teddy Bear Picnic at a nearby park.  

(She had not been happy to see Brogie leave for 

school without her the previous days.)

I took her a bit later, after the other children had already arrived at the park.

As soon as the first little guy saw me roll her up the sidewalk

 in her stroller the call went out . . . "Teddi's heeeeeear!" and 

her classmates came running as if he had hollered "Free ice cream!"

As they surrounded her in her stroller, the same sweet

 five year old announced, "Teddi's back in business!"

Yes indeed, Flit doesn't stay down for long.  

She hadn't been to school since the day she broke her elbow

and the littlest "queen of the class" had been missed!

These are the pictures that came home with Brogan the day she had

her elbow surgery.  To think that barely more than a year ago

Teddi was an orphan "waiting to belong" and now she has this little

flock of friends who come running at the sound of her name . . .

oh how indescribably thankful that makes me!

I am also thankful that after nine nervous months of wedding planning . . . reservation making, dress buying, tux ordering, flower designing, photographer hiring,  invitation sending, shower attending . . . all the way down to the nitty gritty last minute details (slightly interrupted by a flower girl's broken elbow) we pulled it off!  So many people worked so hard to make Taylor and Frankie's wedding a magical event. I am grateful to them.  Many people traveled great distances to celebrate with us, I am grateful to them!  This photo snapped at the reception sums up the day . . . the "I do's" were marvelously blessed!  Thank you Lord for a sweeter than sweet day, thank you for holding the rain, thank you for the blessing of a new son-in- law.  I am so grateful.

I am thankful for this sweet man of mine who in the post wedding days has completely picked up my exhausted slack.  He has moved a mountain of dirty laundry, bought groceries, and kept the house from falling apart.  Thank you babe, I don't know what I would do without you!

Lastly, if I step out my front door and look up, this is the scene.  Sweet or what?  It's the same nest that was painstakingly built while we waited to travel for Teddi.  The same nest that contained five brand new baby birds upon our return from China.  That very same nest is blessed once again . . .

and so is mine!

Blessings from my ever thankful nest ~ 

Tina