Somehow these Monday gratitude posts are all I seem to manage these days…must be the last month of pregnancy, trying to help sick kids get well, keeping (sort of) caught up with homeschool and, well, I think that’s really all!  All I can manage at the moment at least.  After a very healthy, uneventful pregnancy, this past week my blood pressure went up a fair bit and there were concerns about the baby’s health so I’ve been trying to be on “modified bed rest” as directed.  My goodness is that hard with 4 loves running around my house!  But the best part of a unexpected things like that is the way those around us rise to the occasion so that’s what my list centers around today:

#348 – bursting into tears upon hearing the sound of a best friends’ voice on my phone after too long

#349 – the same precious friend and her number 6 baby belly next to my number 5 baby belly

#350 – the dinners and treats and ‘love muffins’ she drove a long ways to bring me

#351 – my mom and sister checking up on me every day

#352 – my sisters’ willingness to do even the tiniest thing if it will help knowing that it all spells L-O-V-E

#353 – another friend also driving a long ways to help this week

#354 – my gem of a brother-in-law willing to do my Costco run for me

#355 – seeing justice play out in an honorable way

#356 – going to sleep thinking of baby names

#357 – the snuggles that go along with sick little ones

#358 – an amazing mama who makes for a crazy fun Nana to my children

#359 – getting to peek at baby today by ultrasound

#360 – being caught up on laundry and dishes…at the SAME time!

#361 – peace and the reality that the outcome of the little and big things in my life don’t rest in my hands