Playing catch up again for Day 26 & 27!
My ten thankfuls for yesterday and today are…
1. The blessing of family ❤️❤️❤️
2. Playing hide and go seek with my niece.
3. The way she makes my heart melt when she randomly calls for, “Aunt Amanda!”. 🥰
4. The pleasant surprise when we got home last night to find that some of my siblings (who had come home an hour or two earlier) had put up Christmas decorations! 😃
5. The peaceful atmosphere of having just the Christmas lights on in a dark room. ✨
6. The left-over omelets, sausage, and potatoes that I only had to heat up for breakfast.
7. The fun I had helping my brother film one of his more humorous videos for his mowing channel.
8. The deer that one of my other brothers shot yesterday.
9. Figuring out what to get different people for Christmas! 😊🎁
10. A Southern Gospel watch-party with some friends that my siblings and I are going to tonight. 😀🎤🎶
What are you thankful for today?
“I will extol You, my God, O King; and I will bless Your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever.”
-Psalm 145:1, 2
sincerely-amanda.com 
I love these thankfuls, friend! I’m a couple of days behind on the challenge, but I hope to catch up before the 30th! (I’ve been just a *smidge* busy, lol! ;P)
Also, I’m wondering…did you mean Days 26 and 27? 🙂
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😊 Yay! Haha! Yes, just a *smidge*. 😁
Thanks for pointing out my little error there! 🙈
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I am thankful for…
Day 26:
1. A good night’s rest!
2. Playing hide and seek with my niece. ♥️
3. Her adorable thumbs up she was giving to everybody!
4. Christmas decorations! A tradition in our family is to put up Christmas decorations the Saturday after Thanksgiving, so it was a lot of fun to get a few decorations put up even though we had been gone most of the day. I am loving the lights… they are so beautiful and peaceful!
5. Our Friday movie night.
Day 27:
1. John’s truck, which fits all six of us siblings whenever we need to go somewhere all together.
2. An Inspirations watch-party with some friends. 😁
3. Laughter!
4. Singing along with a cd with my siblings at the top of our lungs in the car in the dark. 😊😂 Whew… that was a mouthful!
5. A sweet, encouraging email from a friend. ♥️
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On day 26 I was thankful for:
1. A great last day with family during our Thanksgiving holiday.
2. Fun times playing with my sweet granddaughter. 🥰
3. Time off from our normal routine.
4. Another deer that Jacob shot!
5. Coming home to find out my kids had put up the Christmas lights and some of our decorations.
On day 27 I was thankful for:
1. Getting to sleep in a little later than normal.
2. Cutting up deer with Jacob.
3. Getting some things organized in our barn.
4. Getting to spend time with my husband when he went to do some mowing .
5. Having a night off from cooking.
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Good evening, everyone!! It’s a cozy night here, and I’m popping in for a thankfuls catch-up comment.😊 It’s hard to believe that we’re already so close to the end of our Give Thanks challenge, and I’m sorry to see it go!!
November 26th – Thankful for:
1. Turkey Soup and Garden Herb Braid Bread for supper.😋 I enjoyed making something special and so cozy.
2. A knitting project in the works.🎉
3. Washers and dryers!
4. My warm, fuzzy blanket(s) as I head to bed after a good day.
5. A reminder this morning from Galatians 5 of the contrast between the works of the flesh and the BEAUTIFUL fruits of the Spirit that I want to inhibit!♥️ “And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” (vs. 24) “We know that WE ARE OF GOD, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.” (1 John 5:19) Let’s be ALL of God!!!
November 27th – It’s my Daddy’s birthday!!! I wrote out a whole list of things I am thankful for about my daddy or things I appreciate and love about him…To name five, I’m thankful for:
1. His desire to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and love his neighbor as himself!♥️
2. His DILIGENT, daily hard work to provide for his family!
3. His great loyalty, support, love and devotion to his family.
4. His dear love and support of his wife!♥️
5. That he and I have been daddy-daughter buddies ever since I was tiny.😊
Amanda, that sibling + friend Southern Gospel watch party sounded like so much fun!!!🎶 I hope ya’ll had a wonderful time! Oh, and your Christmas decorations look so cozy…they inspired me to put up some lights here this evening!🤗
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11.26 thanksgivings🍂
“Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, Whose heart is set on pilgrimage.”
Psalms 84:5
1.) thankful that the Lord God is my strength!
“For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly.”
Psalms 84:11
2.) Thankful He gives GRACE!!!
3.) Thankful for the promise that He withholds NO good thing! “The young lions lack and suffer hunger; But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.”Psalms 34:10
4.) Thankful for prayer!! The ability to pray for myself and others and to know others are praying for me!! ♥️
5.) Thankful for family meals!!
11.27 thankings 🍂
“Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.”Jude 1:2
1.) Thankful to be called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ
Jude 1:1 !! ♥️
2.) Thankful that HE is ABLE to keep us from stumbling, and to present us faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy!! Jude 1:24
3.) thankful for the abundant life we have in Christ! The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.- John 10:10-11
4.) Thankful for Sunday morning worship and time in the Word!!♥️
5.) Thankful that my cup runs over!! “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over.”
Psalms 23:5
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