I’ve been up three hours and haven’t taken the time to be grateful.

May the business and busyness of my day not interfere with my gratitude.

I am warm. I am dry. I am inside. I have a winter coat should I need to go out.

I have a purpose. I have a plan. I am flexible when things change.

I am easily pleased. I am contented with a little. I am overwhelmed by the generosity of others.

Grateful to fulfill a Christmas wish.

Grateful for Thanksgiving when the laughter and stories filled my soul. The food is secondary to the companionship of friends and family

friendliness, kindness of strangers, help, support, pens & pencils, my computer, Mindfulness, growth, opportunity, hope, God, love, Mariella and mommy!

1. The Nutcracker with my eldest and grandma and T&G
2. Meeting one of the incredible dancers afterward and realizing he knew my MIL
3. Music
4. Inspiration
5. Being in a calm place to make decisions
6. An idea borne of necessity
7. The Christmas season
8. Movement
9. Letting go of rigid ideas
10. Accepting what is

1. God
2. Floors
3. Ceilings
4. The mail
5. Bill and Michel inviting us over. Michel and I laughed loudly and often. Bill was in a bad mood but gave me a hug anyway.
6. Fine details from the blade and machine
7. So much time, too many books
8. Time and temperature
9. Vanishing point

1. God
2. Having church friends over
3. Free food!
4. Mom’s homemade soup!
5. Organic lemons
6. New matching pajamas!
7. New pillow!
8. Health Insurance
9. Friends and being together
10. Hot showers
11. Singing Christmas songs in church choir tomorrow–the first Sunday of Advent!
12. Peace and quiet

1. Unexpected encouragement
2. Joy in trying new things
3. Help from the woman I call the “Swiss Army Knife” of Periscope
4. Book orders from lovely people, and books shipped off to them
5. A rainy evening walk
6. Sending cards
7. Inspiration for something bigger than me
8. Figuring it out as I go (parenting is one)
9. Loud and funny moms at the library today
10. Hugs

1. God
2. Thank you, Crystal
3. Relaxation
4. The feeling of the hard chair
5. The room
6. Spaces between and within
7. Atoms
8. Glass
9. Discoveries
10. Among the living

food, fridge, oven, plates, cups, knives, forks, spoons too, gratitude in my heart, hope in my outlook, love in and around me, God

1. God
2. Continuing Thanksgiving blessings
3. “the way to enlarge gratitude is to frequently express it”
4. Warmer climes
5. Abundance
6. Trust
7. Cassie for hosting my mother and father and David and Chris
8. Expressions of gratitude everywhere
9. For how things are, not perfection
10. My father when I said I’d see him tomorrow “hope so, don’t know from one day to the next what’s going to happen” he said laughing

1. Hearing the chorus of my family’s voices in speakerphone
2. Warm weather to take the girls out in
3. Great meal by my in-laws
4. Egg nog (not the spiked kind)
5. Seeing mindfully
6. Open Focus Brain exercises
7. Checking my ego
8. Protecting my babies
9. When to say when
10. This day, this moment