grateful again

1. Charlie singing Angels We Have Heard on High (the gloria part, which goes on and on.)

2. Sam writing a thank you note (his own idea, with no prompting from me) to our California neighbor, Matthew, who always sends him birthday and Christmas gifts, but who Sam hasn't seen since he was one.

3. Dan's job. Even though it takes him away from us a lot, his job really takes care of us too.

4. Comments (on my blog).

5. My kids being good eaters. They'll try almost anything and love Indian food, Thai food, and cauliflower and broccoli.

6. A sewing machine. What would I do without a sewing machine?

7. Disposable diapers. I feel pretty guilty about putting SO many diapers in the landfill, but apparently not guilty enough to use cloth diapers.

8. Blogging. Even though I spend a lot of time on it, I love the connections with a lot of you that I had lost touch with. Also - it's a great journal for me (since I am not an excellent journal-writer.)

9. This Old House (the show - I'm kind of mad at my own old house right at the moment.)

10. Spring is coming!

Grateful

I really shouldn't start this post out with a complaint, but it's too bad that we think about being grateful only in the month of November. So here's a list of some things that I'm grateful for right now.

1. The way Luke wakes me up in the morning by cooing rather than screaming. Even when he's soaked and hungry.

2. Stripes (in any form).

3. How Sam never forgets to kiss and hug me at night, even when I'm mad at him for not going to sleep.

4. The new snow. It's snowed a few times in the last week and it makes everything look so clean and beautiful.

5. Chocolate fondue (the best is pineapple).

6. Jamie living here!

7. Jack reading the scriptures by himself in bed at night.

8. The Soundtrack for Pride and Prejudice (beautiful).

9. Dan. After spending 4 hours in the ER late at night with Charlie, I just wanted to go to bed, but I still had a long list of groceries to get. I went to bed anyway. Dan went to the gym (at 11:30 pm) but before he left he looked in my purse for the grocery list. He couldn't find it but bought everything on the list he could remember AND flowers. What a nice guy.

10. Charlie trying to be good by saying "shushie" in stead of "shut up".