Wed - Sat Thankfulness list

Wed. - Malinda and Brian finding an apartment so they can finally be back together as a family.
Thur. - To spend Thanksgiving with my sister and her family. We had a wonderful time.
Fri. - BLACK FRIDAY sales at Walmart. It was totally awesome!!!
Sat. - BYU beating the Utes!!!

I just love the Thanksgiving holiday. I love everything about it. Good food, great times with people I love. SHOPPING at 4:00am and getting some incredible deals. Eating leftovers, spending more time with family and more shopping. Who could ask for more? ..... Well maybe I could ask for one thing. Can someone please take this sore throat away. It hurts to talk and swallow, plus my ears hurt and have a loud ringing in them. Please, just take it away.

Now we are in the official countdown to Christmas. Mine and Dennis' favorite time of the year. Let the MERRIMENT begin!!!

Tues. Nov 24 thankfulness

I am so thankful for good health.

I woke up at 3:00 am with a sore throat. It kept me awake for 45 minutes until I finally got up and did something about it. I gargled, took some Echinacea and went back to bed and blissful slept (until the alarm went off at 4:45 am), promptly turned off the alarm and went back to sleep for another hour. After Dennis left for work I took a hot bath and drank some Yarrow tea to help me sweat out any germs and crawled back into bed with Dennis' hot mattress pad and slept for 2 more hours. I woke up feeling so much better. I am still taking the Echinacea and gargling throughout the day, plus putting on Sen Sei. I just can't get sick right now and miss the Black Friday sales - that would be horrible.

Today I am thankful for....

Flowers in winter. Dennis brought me home a beautiful bouquet of roses last Monday. I have been cutting them back and giving them fresh water about every 3 day, and half of them are still alive and they bring a ray of beauty into our home.

November 23 Thankfulness

Here I am again, 5 days behind. So here is my list of 5 things:

1. I am grateful for my parents. They have taught me so much in my life. They share so much with our family from their garden and fruit trees.
2. I am grateful for Dennis parents also. Mark (Dennis's dad) thought he had a heart attack Saturday night and spent all night Saturday and all day Sunday in the hospital having tests done. They found nothing, which we are all very grateful for. It must have just been stress related. We had been up there all day Saturday helping Steve install the new countertops he made for them. We think that dad must have done too much. We are so glad he is home from the hospital with a clean bill of health.
3. Christmas music. I apologize if I have posted this before already but it is our (Dennis and my) favorite kind of music. I play it pretty loud all day every day.
4. Inflated tires. I totally take for granted the tires on the car UNTIL THAT IS....heaven forbid one goes flat. What a hassle!!!
5. The last of the melons from my garden. I think it is a Casaba or Crenshaw, but whatever it is, it is so delicious. Who would have thought that melons would last until November. It was one of those things my father taught me. (Thanks dad).

Wednesday Nov 18

I decided it would be easier to make a list of things I am grateful for today, rather than try to think back a week.

1- A great, but exhausting 4 day workshop.
2- A new outlook on life
3- Another class on my new sewing machine, this time I learned some basics on machine embroidering. I am so excited. I have all these ideas in my head that I want to make.
4- I finally have ideas in my head. I have felt like I have been on auto pilot for the last year and a half. Nothing to motivate or drive me.
5- I have a new passion in my life, and I am so excited about it. I feel like a kid on Christmas eve. I can't spill the beans right now, but watch for great things from me in the next year.
6- A wonderful weekend with 2 of my sweet, beautiful grand daughters. Plus the bonus of - on Family Home Evening watching all the grandkids interact and play with each other. It is truly a piece of Heaven. They really do love each other.
7- Listening to little P. who is 3 years old recite the 1st Article of Faith. His mom has given him an incentive to memorize it. All he wants is a hamburger and a "big corn" (corn on the cob). He is working so hard and it is so sweet.
8- A clean kitchen. Since I was gone for 4 days last week and came home to company (which was wonderful), and then on Monday I picked up a large order of food storage items and it sat around the kitchen until I could get it into smaller packages, my kitchen looked like a war zone. I finally had a few hours last night to clean it and it feels SO GOOD!!!!

Tuesday Nov 10 gratitude

Wow, I am so behind. Dennis and I went to a 4 day workshop last week and I have been running ever since.

Tuesday gratitude:
Looking forward to a 4 day break from the daily grind.

Monday Thankfulness....

Today I am thankful for my new sewing machine. It took me a year to decide to fork out quite a bit of money for a new one. The money was a big deal, but not as much as the worry of learning how to run a new "computerized" machine. I knew my old machine inside and out. I guess that happens when I have had it for 33 years. Now that I have taken classes and worked on the machine I am not so afraid of it anymore. It is so fun. So far all I have done on it is make quilts, which is my new hobby. It's great fun. HATS OFF TO BERNINA! Now if I can just get to actually quilting the quilts.

Sundays are the best and I am thankful for....

the opportunity to attend church today. I was sick the last two Sundays with the flu and I missed partaking of the Sacrament and feeling the sweet Spirit that fills each and every meeting. I wonder if we understand how truly blessed we are to have the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives. I know I don't even fully comprehend it. It is too much for my mortal brain to understand the concept of "Christ like Love". Never having a bad thought or worse speaking those thoughts to or of others.

Nov 7 - Thankful for.....

Paint, paint brushes, health and the ability to paint. I repainted the downstairs bathroom (we didn't like the other color I chose before) and painted the finish work Steve put up a few days ago. It is now complete except for handles on the vanity. Our guests no longer have to share our bathroom upstairs. I was giddy with excitement when I put the shower curtain up. Just plain wonderful. 41/2 months of working and waiting. YEA, it is now over. YEA!

Friday Nov 6 Thankfulness

I am grateful for all of Steve's hard work to get out basement bathroom nearly finished. He put in the finish trim (baseboards and door moldings), caulked around the tub and shower, and cut out some tile for the shower thing to fit in. THANKS STEVE - I APPRECIATE ALL YOU DO FOR US!!!

Thankful for...

Being it is November I am going to try and post something I am thankful for every day.
Today I am thankful for.....
The beautiful fall weather.

Who can not be happy and thankful for 70 degree weather and beautiful fall colors. It seems the world is in its full glory. I just love it.

Halloween 2009

Despite having been sick for a week with the "dreaded flu", I got to enjoy some of the Halloween fun. Friday night found us at the Whitlocks annual Halloween party which is always lots of fun. Saturday all the kids and grandkids (except for Mark's family)came to our wards Trunk or Treat. I just love Trunk or Treat. I never was a fan of opening the door every 2.5 minutes. Now it is all over in about an hour, the kids get more candy than they can carry and everyone can go home and enjoy the rest of the night....For Dennis and I that meant watching the new Transformers Movie.