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The Thankful Tree

Today is the very first ever Thanksgiving we have spent alone as a family, so I wanted to make the best of it!! I am excited to say that we spent zero dollars on our table decor due to the fun creativity of my children and some blogs I follow!! Our table decor hike was a huge success!

Today is the day when we really dig deep into our hearts and find what we are really thankful for.. So here is my list:

I am deeply thankful for my church for staying true to God's glorious life changing truth and for our small group for being real and vulnerable and prayerful and most importantly my faith in Jesus. These last few years I have been in the fire of God refining me and taking my deepest fears and most strangling idols and turning my world upside down to lead me into His loving arms!

He promises never to give up on me, and His love is deeper and wider than I could ever ever imagine. I am thankful for the trust he has put in my heart and that my sin has been erased as far as the east is from the west and that I am loved with a complete love that I cannot completely understand.

I am so thankful for my family and my beautiful children whom I love so so much. They challenge me, they keep me laughing, and they have shown me love that I have never seen or experienced before they became a part of my life! I am thankful for my husbands hard work and his help and for him never giving up, but moving forward with Hope and excitement for the future.

I am thankful for our home here in Raleigh. Since my husband has lost the stability of a steady predictable paycheck, we have struggled through these past two years on little to nothing. I have worked longer hours than I ever thought possible, and have just tried to hang on sometimes it seems impossible.

It is actually astonishing to watch how God provides for our needs as they come to us. Before this all happened, we would have thought that our provision was what was keeping us afloat, but now we are sure it is God's provision. Thank you to all of you who have donated your skills or have helped us during this time! We love you all with the love of Christ. Never more have I appreciated the ability to come Home to our home and to live in it.

I am thankful for my trip to Memphis to spend a week with my brother!! Thanks to all my new clients in Tennessee who made that trip possible for me this year! I had such a blast even though it was hard!

I am thankful for gracious people who love Never before have I been stretched or have endured some situations that could have been way different if it were for Wisdom Grace and Mercy and love and understanding. I am overwhelmingly thankful for all my wonderful friends and clients who know my heart, know where I am and what kind of situation I am in and extend such love and Grace.

Finally, I am thankful for my business and the ability to give to my clients photographs of their families and children that become an investment to treasure.

DUKE Gardens in the Morning

You really ought to try driving over to Duke Gardens first thing in the morning sometime... the dew on the roses is worth the drive!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving tomorrow.. I am NOT going to be working, answering calls or e-mails unless it is an emergency!

Today my husband and children went out to find a tree branch to make a thankful tree. We stuck the branches upright into my jar of rocks from Greece and hung reasons why we are so thankful even during these hard couple of years!

I will post it later for you all to see. Thanks to Su at the Intentional Home for spreading that word and for being such a great place to go when you want to make your home intentional!! Love your blog and the info Su so much!

Tomorrow I have the opportunity to cook my very first Turkey! Usually we end up at someone else's house for Thanksgiving so I have never had the opportunity to take this important step in life... I am soooooo excited to cook Thanksgiving dinner for my little family here at home!!!!

We are headed out for an adventure hike while the Turkey is roasting to find decorations for our table. Then I think it will be a Wii playing day in between checking the football games of course.

Then I am vowing tomorrow marks the day when I stopped exercising regularly one year ago and now is the time to right the ship!!! My first jog of the Autumn will happen sometime!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

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