delighting in 1000 gifts // part two

Last October, I started journaling daily blessings or 'gifts' after reading Ann Voscamp's One Thousand Gifts. I am going through my journal as I hit one year since I started and feeling so blessing in a year full of delight and joy, even amidst stress and busyness. 

I posted my favorite gifts of October 2013 and now I want to share my favorite gifts in November and December 2013:

74. Older couples telling about God's faithfulness through their lives

77. My mom's face when I bring her flowers during unexpected visits

78. She Reads Truth Bible studies

85. Sunday naps

97. Monthly massage and catching up with my massage therapist

101 & 102. A clean apartment and the smell of clean laundry

113. Collecting 262 Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts collected from church

114. Surprising coworkers with pie and thank you cards

118. Serving lunch at Union Gospel Mission on Thanksgiving day

138. Writing Christmas cards 

145. Antique-shopping at Monticello Marketplace for Christmas decoration ideas 

and decorating my apartment

151. Spending the weekend with family in Leavenworth, Wa.

155. Sitting by a fireplace, sipping a warm drink

162. A Christmas gift from a sunday school kiddo. So sweet

176. Fog during my first jog of 2014. So pretty

189. Remembering that God is both sovereign AND good

193. My BFF's gift came in the mail

195. Paying off my undergrad school loan ($7,000!) to cut one loan off my list

204. Tea and goal-setting at Cafe Delirium 

218. Skype chat with Natalie from Heart Stirrings