Okay, it’s time to praise the Lord and count my blessings again. I read this quote today that someone I love very much sent to me a little while back:

“These are the conditions for being a winner: You must continue to have faith, you must continue to feed your faith with the Word, you must continue to persevere, and you have to continue to praise and not forget to do it, as this is a powerful weapon against the attacks of the Enemy.”

Praise? Yeah, I haven’t been doing that too much lately. But, not a problem. I can start now. I have SOOOO many things to praise the Lord for. Here are just 10.

1.) I just got to see and spend time with some VERY CLOSE friends! Yaiy!

2.) Marco and Feli and baby Dean came over to visit us once more before they leave back to Albania.

3.) My kids are happy and doing WONDERFUL in school. They are bright, creative, and ahead for their ages.

4.) Kate has done a FANTASTIC and above average job teaching them this last year (and I owe her might right arm, one of my lungs, one of my kidneys, and my whole heart. –Txs Kate. I love you!) and is going a fantastic job turning their school over to Timna.

5.) Their new teacher, Timna, is the new best thing that has ever happened to us (Yes, we have a lot of those –lots to be thankful for and is lightening our load in very significant ways. The kids love her. She’s spent many hours today working through and filing all the kids completed school work and papers, updating their records, etc.

6.) “Auntie Bob” is still “little Bob’s” heart throb.

7.) I had 35 minutes of exercise today. Huge victory.

8.) Darren and I had our 7th anniversary a week ago. And 8 very wonderful years together!

9.) I’m so greatly blessed. I am surrounded by people who I really love to work with, live with, share life with.

10.) I have just enough really big problems, trials, tribulations, challenging work, and burdens to keep me tried, tested, desperate, humble, trusting, etc…. and to make me a “Live One” Christian who has a lot of reasons to keep praising the Lord.