August 20th: "Three Gifts in Serving"

#664  GG's fun and creativity....lessons in serving

#665  Papa Hall's quiet leadership and tender care....serving as chauffeur

#666  clean sinks

August 19th: "Three Gifts in Church"

My kids are still away.  I miss them, but let me just say, this was the first all church breakfast in 7 years that I didn't have to fix someone else's plate, I could talk to whomever I please (uninterrupted), and we were very, very early.

But back to the dare....

#661  CJ is back.

#662  The Men's Choir starting worship with "Brethren, We Have Met to Worship"

"Brethren, we have met to worship and adore the Lord our God;

Will you pray with all your power, while we try to preach the Word?

All is vain unless the Spirit of the Holy One comes down;

Brethren, pray, and holy manna will be showered all around."

#663  Singing harmony with my sister-in-love, Anna

August 18th: "A Gift Red, Read, Written"

With the children away at GG & Papa's house, I took the opportunity to deep clean some closets.  Oh, the treasures waiting to be found....

#658  A trace of a boy away

#659  A remembered discovery of a bonus

#660  Evidence of a littler Eldest

August 17th: "Three Gifts in the Morning"

#655  Creative time

#656  Quiet conversations

#657  Packing for GG & Papa's house

August 16th: "Three Gifts of Family"

Author's Note:  Last of the pics of the trip to the coast (maybe....), but today's dare kept me thinking about our trip as a family and how we bonded on our adventure.  Thanks be to God.....

#652  The Beginning.....two became one.

#653  The Blessings...each different.

#654  The Bundle...together, we thrive.

August 15th: "Three Gifts Ugly-Beautiful"

(final day of a great vacation week.....back home and settling in)

#649  Monstrosities of man....the scars on the land but the beauty of achievement

#650  Post-vacation laundry...the finality of the end but back to the familiar and comfortable

#651  Souvenirs...the jumble of colors but each one carefully selected and cleaned

August 14th: "A Gift In A Ring, Curve, Sphere"

(Day 6 of our family trip to the Texas coast....the last of the week....again, thankful.)

#646  Ring of a commercial washing machine....tending to the cabin that has kept us so well

#647  Curve of the bottle of Aunt Polly & Uncle Freddy's liniment...that sits across the street from their old quaint cabin

#648  Sphere of the graceful dancers....their mystery and strange beauty hypnotizes from a distance