5:30 | One Thankful Thing

Leaves

The best part about fall...jumping into a big pile of leaves!  I am so grateful that I got to share that joy with Elizabeth this year.

4:30 | One Thankful Thing

Scarves

I am almost always cold, so scarves are wonderful to help keep me warm.

5:30 | Photography Challenge

Childhood Memory

 

Thankful Thursday

• I am so grateful to have a husband to help me around the house.
• I am grateful that we had a pumpkin for Elizabeth to finger paint on Halloween, and I am now thankful that it is gone (since it started to rot)
• I am grateful for cars to drive where I need to go
• I had a great time at the Merrill's for a play date.  I love chatting.
• I have loved getting out so much in this last week.  It has been good for both Elizabeth and me.
• I am so glad that my husband has been working so hard to be healthier.  I look forward to many years with him.
• I am grateful for light.  Thomas Edison, right?  It's fun to have candle light sometimes, but light bulbs are so much better to work by.  It would be so hard without them in the winter here.
• I am so grateful for heaters
• I am thankful for water heaters too
• Technology is a wonderful thing to help me keep in touch with my family and friends
• I love, love, LOVE books
• I love listening to music
• I love dancing to music
• I love listening and dancing to music with my little girl
• I love that Elizabeth loves to twirl
• It makes me happy to see Elizabeth enjoying her 'white tutu' so much
• I am so grateful for the temple, and the blessing that are received and promised there
• I am so glad that I get to go to the temple this weekend with Brian
• I love that Aunt Jessi lives here, so that she can do our family pictures (among many other reasons why I love Jessi)
• I am so glad I found a sweater for Brian tonight, and it was cheaper than the one I was going to buy
• I am grateful for paper.  To write on, doodle, draw, fold into something, and especially to capture Elizabeth's beautiful drawings and paintings
• I love that Elizabeth loves to draw and paint.  She is so creative.
• I am grateful that my girl will be in a tumbling class this next month.  She loves to tumble at home, so this will be great to have a safe place for her to learn how to do more safely.  It will also keep us sane and doing something as the weather turns colder and darker.
• I am so grateful for Thanksgiving.  It is going to be so awesome with so many family members coming to join us here in Michigan.  I love family and food, so it will be great!

3:30 | One Thankful Thing

Snuggles

I love to snuggle!  With my girl, with my husband.  It feels so wonderful to hold onto someone I love, and just be together.

5:30 | Photography Challenge

Someone I love

2:30 | One Thankful Thing

Hands

I can't imagine life without my hands, or the use of them.  To try to go a day without using them would be so hard.  I am always, always using my hands.  They are so versatile that it is AMAZING!  I can do a task with them, help someone with them, and even express emotion with my incredible hands.  I am so grateful for them.

One Thankful Thing

My journey of gratitude through my 'glass'

4:30 | Photography Challenge

Favorite Color

 

1:30 | One Thankful Thing

Backwards pants

Elizabeth pretty much dresses herself these days {often more than once a day}.  In her dressing herself, many times she comes out with some mismatched outfit that has something inside-out, backwards, or otherwise creatively put on.  This morning was no exception.  My girl came out of her room decked out in her grey and green dress, her new warm hat, and her jeans on backwards.  So backwards pants has become a symbol of my girls independence.  She is growing up, and it amazes me at each new thing that she learns to do on her own.  But it also symbolizes that she still needs me.