Welcome to Friday's Fave Five hosted by Susanne from Living to Tell the Story. This is a writing exercise where we look back on the week, choose 5 of the blessings that we call our favorites and share about them. It is good to give thanks unto the Lord and I'm thankful for the following five blessings:
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| Courtney, age 29 July 2022 |
- BIRTHDAY DINNER: A week ago, Courtney came over for her birthday celebration dinner. The weekend before her birthday she had just come back to NY from her week long vacation in Texas and was tired so we only gave her the gifts and had some pizza and she went back to her place. This past weekend she came over for grilled BBQ chicken (one of her fave things), pasta salad, green beans and a HUGE chocolate chip cookie pie. (I neglected to take a pic but it was decorated with blue frosting and said Happy Birthday, Courtney). We enjoyed a time of fellowship and I'm so thankful she is recovering from her hand surgery ok and could come over.
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| New York City Ballet on the Saratoga Performing Arts Center stage performing Chaconne image courtesy of The Saratogian |
- NIGHT OUT AT THE BALLET: Finally the week arrived when the New York City Ballet is in town for 5 nights of performances and several matinees. I bought tickets back in February for Saturday evening's performance of Chaconne, Summerspots, and the hit Glass Pieces. Everything was exquisite. The first ballet was classical of course, the middle one was very modern....and a bit odd.....and the last one was modern and full of energy and just amazing ballet forms. Claire and I absolutely loved it. It was a gorgeous evening....quite hot actually..(we've had a week of temps in the low 90s which is hot for our area) but we had brought ice water and the ampitheater is open on 3 sides of course so it wasn't bad once the sun went down. I'm so thankful to have this each summer with my own ballerina.
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| Black Lake at Cherry Plain State Park eastern NYS Sunday 17 July |
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| the beautiful pines on the lake |
- AFTERNOON AT A MOUNTAIN LAKE: Sunday after I got home from the 9 am church service, I got ready for an afternoon at a state park to the east of us. It's about 40 minutes from us on the top of a mountain (foothills of the Green Mountains of Vermont but in NYS). Claire and I packed lunch and water and books. Dave had other things to do so didn't join us. We swam, chatted, relaxed and read. It was 90 degrees F when we left our town and on the mountain top it was only 76 but the sun was HOT. We love this state park because there's a large grassy area which runs parallel the length of the sandy beach so we always set our things up in the shade of the big oak tree on the grass as did several people that day, and sit there rather than right in the sun on the sand. I'm thankful we had a relaxing time and it felt great to swim!
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| image courtesy of Amaz*n |
- RELAXATION: I bought this facial sheet mask several months ago and had forgotten about it until Wednesday evening when I was cleaning out a dresser drawer and saw it. I washed my face and spent 20 minutes of pure relaxation with this facial sheet mask on. It was heavenly. I'm thankful for pure ingredients and a relaxing evening at home.
- PAIN FREE DAYS! I had sinus headache pain from the first week of April until last Wednesday. I still had the headache upon waking every day, but Wed-Tuesday I was pain free ALL DAY and EVENING. Until yesterday. UGH. Had some pain free moments yesterday but the headache came back full force in the evening. Like I've said before, nothing is taking this headache away when it is here so I've stopped trying. I did stop taking a daily Allegra as it was making me MORE congested. God happened to sit me by an old friend from my hometown who struggled with the same thing I've had and said when she stopped the antihistamine, the congestion stopped. I'm now going to stop taking the Singular starting next week. I told the ENT I would try it for a month. Well, I'm no longer wanting to be on meds I truly don't think I need. I'm going to let God be God and see what happens. I'm thankful for this friend C who told me her experience. I'm thankful I had a week of no pain! And I'm thankful for the power of prayer. Hopefully by stopping these meds, this headache will clear up once and for all.
That wraps up my list for the week.
I hope if you are in the Northeast, experiencing this long heat wave, that you are safe and keeping cool. I'm SO THANKFUL for central air. At the age of 62, the high heat and humidity really wipes me out.
Stay cool and have a relaxing weekend!
6 comments:
Oh I'm sorry the headaches are back. I was hoping you would be pain free now. Hoping the new regimen (or lack of it) will help you.
You had a lovely week with your girls and especially at the park.
Here's to a great weekend!
Oh I do hope you can be free of these awful headaches, especially in the heat! We had the highest temps here our country has ever recorded last week and no air con. But we survived - just - thankful I could just sit and do nothing and we had dinners that could be done on the hob and didn't require the oven. How lovely to be able to spend time with your girls. The night at the ballet sounds wonderful. Enjoy this weekend.
Hi Faith, Glad you had a nice week. The heat wipes me out too. I continue to pray for God's healing of your headache. See you again soon!
The heat really drains me, too, especially when it's humid. I'm glad you had some pain free days! But sorry the pain came back. Isn't odd how meds can cause what they are supposed to cure. I'm glad Courtney could come for birthday dinner and you had an amazing night at the ballet.
I'm happy for you that you had some pain free days but man, I hate to hear that the headache came back. I continuing to pray and ask God for total healing on your behalf and for wisdom on your next steps with these meds. It's been hot here too, I find that the older I get the more the heat drains me faster. How fun that you were able to enjoy the ballet again with Claire. Glad to hear Courtney's hand surgery went well.
I enjoyed your beautiful sharing of the five blessings in your week! So wonderful to enjoy excursions with people you love. The swim at the mountain lake sounded wonderful and so refreshing! It is our favorite thing to do in the summer too. We have a river close by our home which we often take the 4-wheeler down to in the summer, and cool off. We are also experiencing a heat wave here in the northwest. I guess everyone is just trying to stay cool! Hoping your headaches clear up and that you can find out what is causing them!!! Prayers for healing for you!
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