Thankful Thursdays

I'm tired because M hasn't been sleeping very well the past few nights. But I'm so grateful we have a roof over our heads and warm beds to sleep in. Even better to be grateful for: that I have a happy and healthy child to keep me awake.

I'm achey because I pushed myself harder than ever before on my run the other day. But I'm so grateful I have a body that is able.

I complain sometimes that I have "nothing to wear". But I'm so grateful that in reality, I have plenty of clothes to cover me.

I want more time to be able to read books. But I'm so grateful that my parents and teachers took the time and gave me the ability to read.

I don't make time to go to the doctor or dentist like I used to. But I'm so grateful I have access to medical care and that in an emergency, I can be helped.

I've told some people I would love to live overseas at some point. But I'm so grateful I was born, and still live in, the land of the free.

I want to take a vacation with hubs and M, to relax. But I'm so grateful hubs has a job that we have to work around.

I may have commented to hubs about my new body shape, post baby, and cried once. But I'm so grateful I can accept a new form, and that hubs loves me any way I look.

I sometimes tell my doggies, Romeo and Babe Ruth, to step aside so I can focus on M. But I'm so grateful for them. They were my children before M was, and the happiness they've brought into my and my family's life is immeasurable.

I miss my Grandparents more and more every day, and the pain of losing them has not subsided. But I am so grateful I knew them. That I knew their stories. That they were my grandparents to love, care for, know, and now, miss terribly.

I think often about my two students that died. Both in car accidents, two years apart. I am so grateful I knew these two teenagers and that I was very close with both of them. And although I was their teacher, I strongly believe I learned more from them than they did from me.

There is always something to be grateful for.