SOUR PATCH KIDS?!

Day 8:  I have been reeally wanting some sour patch kids for a few weeks now.  I was skyping with my sister one day and saw my niece in the background eating some and boy, was my mouth a waterin'!  Anyways, I said there was some new volunteers here for a week and we have been spending a lot of time together.  Last night after dinner while we were just hanging around the restaurant still chatting Monique pulled out the last little bit of her sour patch kids.  I really wasn't implying that I wanted her to give them to me (not all of them at least...of course I was going to ask for at least one!), but I made a comment something like, "SOUR PATCH KIDS?!  I've been craving those for weeks!"  Yeah, that definitely sounds like, "Give me your sour patch kids," in code.  Well she surely understood the "code" language and kindly gave me the rest of them.  I was sooo thankful and immediately knew this was my thankful 30 for the day!  Go Monique and your kindness!  Also, go sour patch kids and my secret "not so code" language.

Day 9:  This was actually going to be my thankful 30 for yesterday but the sour patch kids kind of took over.  Nonetheless I am still super thankful for God's beautiful creativity displayed through His mountains.  Where I'm from in MI we don't have mountains.  Sand dunes, yes.  Mountains, no.  I remember when I was in Kenya and saw so many mountains that when I closed my eyes to pray or go to bed I would just see mountains after mountains after mountains.  It's like when you've been doing something all day like working on a puzzle or picking berries...at night when you close your eyes all you see is that image over and over again.  It was truly wonderful.  Well I praise my Father once again because He is kind enough to bless me with more mountains.  We went for a drive down the mountain yesterday and Saturday and although it made me feel really sick with all the quick turns and fast driving, it was totally worth it because it was not only close up awesome, gorgeous mountains and cliffs, but the clouds were really low too which made for such an amazing picture God didn't have to give me, but wanted to.  I decided to just try capturing the photo in my mind instead of on my camera (I knew the camera wouldn't do it justice anyways), so here is a picture from a while ago (father away than I was from the mountains) with the same idea.
 

Hmm...I just realized that I think I am over doing the thankful 30 journal, and am content with just an explanation and a picture =)

Hakuna Matata