Thursday, February 9

Grace at Home No. 495


Greetings, friends! 

I hope your week's been a lovely one. Mine started with a bang:


We celebrated my husband's 59th birthday on Sunday. He was hospitalized more than once last fall and had to have a couple of emergency surgeries, so I don't take for granted the fact that we got to celebrate this birthday.

I want to cultivate that kind of thankfulness for every day. It's too easy for me to get into a rut of taking so many things for granted rather than thanking God for each blessing. Gratitude is one of the attributes in which I really want to grow this year. What about you? Do you have an area of particular growth you're aiming for?

Today I'm grateful to welcome you to the Grace at Home party, where we pause to celebrate the ways we make our homes places of grace. Here are some highlights from last week's party.



Do you enjoy decorating your home for holidays? I do, but sometimes I want "just a touch" of decor for a particular time. Debra from Common Ground shared the wonderful idea of designating a holiday cupboard that you change for each occasion.


Or maybe you'd like to make one showstopper piece of Valentine's Day decor. Ann from Ann's Entitled Life shows you step by step how to make this darling heart wreath.


Want to make a special treat for Valentine's Day but don't have much time? Nancy from Nancy-C shows you how to make these yummy Valentine's Marshmallow Pops.


If you live in an area that's expecting many more weeks of winter, you'll be inspired by the way Debbie at Debbie-Dabble embraces each season and makes her home colorful and welcoming.


Or maybe you'd like to just do some dreaming about springtime. If so, you'll love this winter garden journal from Pam at Everyday Living.


For many of us, there's no way around it: February is a season of waiting. So I think you'll enjoy these thoughts about the art of waiting from Jennifer at Tea with Jennifer.


Thank you to everyone who joined last week's party!

Here are the Grace at Home party, you can link up any post you've written that demonstrates how you're filling your life with truth, goodness, and beauty. For instance, I invite you to link posts about
  • DIY projects
  • decorating
  • recipes
  • hospitality
  • homemaking tips
  • parenting
  • marriage
  • faith
  • self-care
  • soul care
Whatever you do to make your home or sphere of influence a place of grace, I'd like to hear about it. Here's what I ask of you. Please include the permalink to your post, not to your site's home page. Please let people know that you've linked up. No more than three posts per person, please. If you link a post here, you re giving me permission to share your post, including a photo. And please visit one or more of the other participants—that's what really makes it a party!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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16 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday to your husband! Thanks for hosting!
    Shelley

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  2. Truly wonderful that you were able to celebrate your hubby's birthday. He looks like he's doing so well. Thanks for sharing my holiday cupboard and for hosting each week.

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  3. Belated happy birthday to your husband! So glad you got to celebrate this one together.

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  4. Happy 59th Birthday to your husband! I know you all are SO very thankful that he is still here for you to celebrate!

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  5. Happy birthday to your hubs! It's so true we should never take having our loved ones around us for granted. I also want to be more intentional about expressing gratitude. It's good for the soul!

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  6. Thankfulness is so important, isn't it? And it is all too easy to take our blessings for granted until they are threatened. I'm so happy for you and happy birthday to your husband.

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  7. Happy Birthday to your husband. It is always such a blessing to be able to cherish our loved ones. Thank you so much for hosting.

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  8. Thanks for hosting and sharing all the great ideas, Richella! Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

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  9. Happy belated birthday to your husband. Thanks for hosting, Richella and for featuring my Winter Garden Journal! Blessings~

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  10. Happy birthday to your hubby! ☺️

    Yes, we need to be very grateful for the bonus years that are given to us after such an experience Richella, I'm celebrating forty bonus years this year since God sent me back after a Heaven experience. So grateful for those decades.

    It was a lovely surprise Richella to see my Post featured here this week, thank you!
    Blessings, Jennifer

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  11. Happy Happy Birthday to your hubby Richella!!! I continue to keep your family in my prayers and sending good health your way

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  12. Happy birthday to your husband. So glad he is doing well! :-)

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  13. So glad your husband is doing well! And thanks so much for including the Valentine Marshmallow Pops in your features! :)

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  14. I forgot to put my name on the comment above!!! So glad your husband is doing well! And thanks so much for including the Valentine Marshmallow Pops in your features! :)

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  15. Looking forward to having Tea With Jennifer as I wrote on waiting this week as well! Thanks for your beautiful link up!

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