30 Days of Thanks (16-22)

16: I am thankful for my mom. She's a beautiful woman, inside and out, always puts others before herself, and is a fabulous example of a Godly wife, mother, friend, sister, coworker, and grandmother. Happy Birthday Mom!

17: I am thankful that my mom's birthday party was at Chuck E. Cheese. I think that's the best party I've ever been to!

18: I am thankful for leftover fleece from our play group's ministry project and for all the Christmas gifts that will be made using it.

19: I am thankful for my sewing machine and for Lucy's new brown corduroy skirt that it produced.

20: I am thankful for the ability to experience a baptism service at Cedar Creek Church. Watching nearly 30 individuals, families, friends, and special needs children surrender their lives to the Lord is AMAZING! There is nothing more beautiful than watching families baptize each other.

21: I am thankful for the washing machine repair man who is coming to fix my machine tomorrow and for not having to dry each load for 3 hours anymore. I am also thankful for more free Christmas cards. (My goal is to get all my Christmas cards for free this year. I'm up to 35 at the moment.)

22: I am thankful for haircuts.

30 Days of Thanks (11,12,13,14,15)

Has it been that long???

11: I'm thankful for our play group and for the many opportunities Lucy gets to share her toys.

12: I'm thankful for naps.

13: I am thankful for rest and leftovers!

14: While eating outside at "King Burger," Lucy said, "It's the perfect day!" I'm thankful for "perfect days" with my little princess.

15: I'm thankful for friends to talk to and chocolate chip cookies to help me relax after a long day.

30 Days of Thanks (7,8,9,10)

7: I am thankful for time to clean my house. I felt like I was always behind on housework when I was working, so I am thankful that I now have time to create a clean, healthy, and safe place for my family.

8: I am thankful for Publix. Not only for the hundreds of dollars they save us each year, but today especially for the cool cardboard gingerbread house they gave to Lucy just because we were in the right place at the right time.

9: I am thankful for our 2 fabulous home groups who we get to share our lives with and for my in laws for keeping Lucy safe and entertained so we can enjoy our time with friends and ministry partners.

10: I am thankful for my precious neice and for all of the smiles and good conversation she and I shared this morning.

30 Days of Thanks (6) and My Kid's Funny!

I am thankful for my church because it's the best, Sunday afternoon naps, coupons from the Sunday paper, and for the funny things my kid does.

I left Lucy downstairs watching Pound Puppies while I went up to get her clothes. I came down and she was on all 4's with our dogs leash clipped to her neck (the skin of her neck) and she was taking herself for a walk.

We ate lunch at Firehouse Subs today. Lucy was a little out-of-sorts due to the time change and some Benadryl to clear up a rash. She likes to take my toothpicks that hold my sandwich together and eat her food with them. (Yes, I'm the great mom who give her child sharp, pointy things to eat with. Anything to keep her occupied, right?!) So she's eating her food with my toothpick and a family comes up to the table across from us to sit down. While the mom straps her child in the highchair, her slightly large hieney was facing Lucy. So Lucy picks up her toothpick and aims it in the direction of the ladies hieney then stops and looks at me for approval. I, of course, grabbed her arm but was laughing to hard to actually tell her stop. Fortunately she stopped before actually poking the lady, but my dad and I got the mental picture in our head and that was all that was needed to make this a very humorous situation.

Happy Sunday!

30 Days of Thanks (5)

I am bursting with thanks today and can hardly type because the excitement is just flowing out of me. First, I am thankful for my parents. Not just for being the amazing parents that they are because they really are the best (and I know a lot of parents), but today I'm particularly thankful that they came to visit us and take our 1st annual (sorry Jeff) Fall Family Pics (see above photo) and for hanging out with us and our crazy girl. I'm also thankful for Walgreens offering 25 Free 4x6 pics. So, in case you're like me and have trouble with math, our family pics were FREE!!! And now I'll end this grammatically awkward post.

30 Days of Thanks (4)

Today I'm thankful for my wonderful husband who occupied Lucy while I slept in and for finally finishing my Thanksgiving wreath. I'm also thankful for the ice cream that is about to walk through my door!

30 Days of Thanks (1-3)

I seen many Facebook statuses over the past few days listing things people are thankful, 1 for each day of the month of November. I often find myself complaining rather than being thankful so I thought I would take this as an opportunity to express thanks to God for so many blessings and to challenge myself to write 1 post each day for a whole month. (Yes, I know, I'm setting myself up for disappointment, but I'm doing it anyway!)

Of course I am thankful for Jeff, Lucy, family, friends, food, clothing, and all other necessities of life, so I thought it would be more fun to focus on 1 thing that I am thankful for that happened each day. Hopefully you will feel inspired to thank God for some pretty great blessings in your day as well.

Nov.1: I'm thankful that yesterday was Halloween and that Lucy went trick-or-treating for the 1st time at the age of 2 because she can't really eat all types of candy yet so I get to help her out! (Since that was really about yesterday, I'll do another for today.) I'm thankful that I get to stay home and teach my crazy Goose because we have so much fun and it's way better than teaching other people's kids. (Not that I'm not thankful for the time I had doing that; this is just more fun.)

Nov.2: I'm thankful for CVS because I saved $19 today, only spent $3.39, and got toilet paper for $.20.

Nov. 3: I'm thankful for cleaning out my wallet and checking the balances on all of our gift cards to find that we have $7.45 at Target, $6.36 at Dunkin Donuts, $6.85 at Moes, $50 at Victoria's Secret, $8.53 at Cracker Barrel, and $4.83 at Starbucks to spend! What a great day!!! (I'm also thankful for the many family and friends who gave us the gift cards.)