Gratitude

How funny is it that I start looking for things to be thankful for and my "Message from God" on Facebook was that is it good to be grateful. It really is true that the more you look for things to be grateful for the more things you find.Here is my list for this week...
7. getting to work with old friends again
8. new recipes that turn out yummy
9. having lunch with my favorite 6 year old
10. afternoon naps
11. warm, clean, clothes right out of the dryer
12. a new white shirt
13. dinner with friends

Speaking of dinner with friends... this Saturday was Supper Club and Bart didn't have to work. Yippee!!! I'm still not sure what he thought but I enjoyed myself. I still feel like I am playing grown up though. Like at  any moment the grown up police will bust in and arrest me. In my head I am still in the 4th or 5th grade. But I got away with it again! Our theme was Jamaican and I was assigned to bring wine. Guess what? There is no Jamaican wine so, I brought sangria. It wasn't too good but hey, I tried. The food was good and dessert was awesome. I love key lime pie.

This week is going to be a strange mix of activities. I have a funeral to attend on Monday (so sad). Testing monitoring and packing begins on Tuesday and Saturday I am going to my MIL to a Woman's Conference that is being put on by my SIL's church. I am sure I will find lots of things to be grateful for this week.

Starting over...

I haven't blogged in such a long time. I felt like I was just bitching and moaning and while that is how I was (is am) feeling I don't want to live my life like that. All the negativity just sort of perpetuate itself and I have to take control of my thoughts and feelings and put myself in a more positive place. I am currently reading 1000 Gifts by Ann Voskamp and I have taken her challenge. I am recording 1000 gifts/blesings from God. After a week of looking I have recorded not quite a page of blessings. I don't naturally look at life like this. I am really having to look for those little blessings that surround me and be thankful for them. I can see all those magical thinkgs in other people's lives but I hhave such a hard time recognizing them in my own life. This is my Lenten journey- to focus on the good in my life and shine a light on it and thank GOd for them. So here we go, I am going to record these little blessings here on Sunday.
Daily Gifts:
1. Pretty things on sale at Target.
2. The ability to run/walk on a cool/brish morning.
3. Hot water heaters that break but don't flood my house and the ability to replace the broken one.
4. The ability to help friends in need. I may not have my own children but I have so many family and friends that I am available to help out with their children. As a result, I am such a part of those children's lives. I am Aunt Kat, not "just Aunt Kat". I can listen to them and not judge or get emotional because it is not my job to raise them. I can teach and mold them from a different place.
5. Hot showers!
6. A thoughtful husband how to make my coffee perfectly.