Thank you, Anita!!

Oh my stars! I was feeling so self-conscious about my previous post (Was I too whiny? How can I complain when I have such a blessed life? Maybe I should just take it down …).

But then you all started sending such sweet, “I can relate! And I’m clinging to Christ too!” and “Don’t be too hard on yourself!” emails that I thought MAYBE I might just leave it up.

And THEN? Dear Anita send me a GREAT HARVEST gift bag filled with LITERALLY our FAVORITE things:

The whole wheat bread we used to eat before we moved to thrift store, week-old, 75 cent loafs; raspberry jam–truly our family’s FAVORITE!–granola (we eat granola every day!), AND one of those super-cool, feels so domestic-diva, thick spready knifey bread thingies?

Well, I KNEW I was a blessed woman even as I wrote of my struggles, but now, after time at co-op with such gracious local friends AND such love from my “long-distance/email/blog” friends? Well, I’m actually FEELING it too.

So thanks, all!

And truly, THANK YOU, Anita for the tangible, yummy, healthy representation of love. I’m SO grateful!! (And if you send me your snail mail address, I’ll send you a REAL thank you too.)

Time to do some dusting and wipe things down for small group tonight …

Sending you my love,
Tara B.