I really did plan to write up a couple of posts this week, but life has just been crazy busy. Not bad busy. Just busy. I truly need to just stop today and take a breath and write down five of those wonderful blessings from this past week. Here are my Friday Fave Fives, hosted by Susanne every week.
1. We have entered the season of birthdays in our family. Three of our four children were born within two weeks of each other (with a separation of eleven years). First in line is the youngest. Younger Daughter, the Nurse, had her birthday yesterday. We celebrated in the morning with a walk with the dogs at our local Dawes Arboretum. Then in the evening, we enjoyed dinner at a local Mexican restaurant (her choice). Happy Birthday!!
"Barbie Nails"
2. If you have read my FFFs from last month, you will remember that our air conditioner quit working, and the AC/Heating company sent someone that day to fix it. Knowing our twenty-five year old units were on their very last breaths, we decided to have a new AC and furnace installed. Two very kind and diligent workers came this week and replaced them both. I was thankful the work is done and that we have more efficient machines to keep us cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
3. On Monday, I had an appointment with the contact dermatologist to give me information for the results on the allergy tests I had done last week. Well. It turns out I'm allergic to all kinds of things. Two of them are very common in lotions and cosmetic products. My doctor gave me information on how to get an app on my phone that I can use to scan UPCs and identify what is in every product. After checking shampoo, conditioner, soaps, creams, lotions, I found that almost all the products I have been using have ingredients I'm allergic to. I'm down to one shampoo and conditioner, two lotions I bought this week after scanning their UPCs at the store. Result: I noticed almost immediate relief on my skin, and my lotion/cosmetics drawer is much more empty.
4. While The Professor was at his physical therapy appointment yesterday, I popped over to Hobby Lobby and ordered a frame for the painting my friend made me from a photo I took on Aran Islands last year. I can't wait for it to be done and hung on a wall in my home.
5. The birds in my garden. Catching photos of them is basically impossible, but I love to sit near the window and watch the goldfinches perched on the sunflowers and all the wrens and other birds pecking around at the bird feeder and on the grass and in the wildflower garden. There's even a hummingbird that flies in and hovers around the petunias and nasturtiums. I love the birds, butterflies and bees that visit my backyard oasis.
Now we are in the month of August. And we have much more to look forward to in this later part of the summer. And more blessings, I am sure.
