Always Grateful

I LOVE this quote! However, I feel it is important to be grateful every day of the year rather than only the thirty days of November. My children and I keep gratitude logs. We take the time to write something that we are grateful for each day. I am always grateful for my husband, my children, good health and happiness. Then we look at our day and pick something additional that we are grateful for from that day - like the fact taht we went to tap dancing class or saw a gorgeous sunset or a pretty flower bed while out walking. 

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all who will be celebrating today! I am ever so thankful for the gift of my family - immediate and extended - and true friends. Life can be hard sometimes and it is the love and understanding and compassion of support of said family and friends that sees me through. I am most thankful for my husband and our children who bring me joy, love and happiness every single day - even when times are tough. What are you grateful for?

Have a happy day!

Thankful and grateful

Grateful

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate this joyous holiday! I hope everyone has a peaceful and joyful day! Thank you for stopping in to visit through the year! It means a lot to me!

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all! I hope everyone had a wonderful, blessed and happy day! We had a wonderful day filled with family, laughter memories - old and now new - and even some swimming. It was HOT here today. 

Gratitude

'Tis the season

We had a tap dancing rehearsal this evening and it was followed by a potluck. My girls asked me make green bean casserole so I did. It was a hit and we didn't bring any home because it was gone! It's safe to say that we started Thanksgiving early tonight. :) I am grateful for my wonderful family and the extended family we have made through tap dance.

Happy Veterans Day

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Grateful

I am so grateful for my family and friends and the fact that we get to experience this life together. It's so important to me not to ever take them for granted. Everything can change in an instant. I love them and I try to express that on a regular basis.

Valentines every day

My family- my husband and our children - are my Valentines every day of every year! My husband has a commitment tomorrow night so we celebrated Valentines Day today. Though to be honest, we believe in showing one another - and our children - love every day. My husband and daughter went grocery shopping today and brought home flowers. Then he made an incredibly delicious salmon dinner. We sat down and ate all together while we talked and laughed and shared about our day. It made me so happy to spend our evening this way.

I hope everyone enjoys their Valentines - tomorrow and every day through the year. 

Hello 2017

Happy New Year to everyone! I hope you New year's Eve and holiday season were joyful and safe. I also hope for a happy, hopeful 2017 filled with love, adventure, prosperity and good health!

I am super grateful to all of my family, friends and readers of my blog. I am looking forward to 2017 with a hopeful and gracious heart.

I'm going to make a new afghan this year and would like to share the colors I've chosen with you:

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the U.S. To everyone else, Happy Thursday. I am always grateful for my family and friends. I am also grateful to the people who visit this page. I am grateful for the simple, everyday joys of life and kindness that does exist all around us.

Wordless Wednesday: Thankful

Forever grateful

Grateful

I think it’s too easy to fixate on the things that are negative in this world. At least it is for me. I consider myself a positive, optimistic person but I do allow myself to get bogged down in the stresses of life. So tonight, I’d like to take some time to focus on some people and things that I am grateful for in my life.

1.   My Husband – He is my best friend and I am grateful for him every single day. He works so hard for our family. He loves us and supports us in so many ways. I’m lucky to have him and love him more every day.

2.   My Children – My husband and I have two amazing daughters. We are so incredibly blessed with our girls. They are individuals, of course, but they are both so smart and loving and cute and funny and sweet. They crack me up and make love swell in my heart on a daily basis.

3.   Extended Family and Friends – I love, adore and appreciate our extended family and friends. Our close friends are like extended family to us and it’s wonderful. We’ve been spending a lot of time with members of our extended family and it is a blessing that I am so thankful for.

4.   Writing and Books – I have to put these together because they’re both important to me. I love writing books and will make a career out of it. However, I love reading books, too. My oldest daughter has been learning about the fact that women haven’t always been allowed to have an education and she is appalled by this. I remember feeling the same at her age. It has made me think again about how lucky we are to have the right to an education in our country. I am thankful that I can read and write books and not have to be afraid of either.

5.   Music – Just as writing and books, I can’t even begin to imagine my life without music. My daughter is learning the trumpet and it makes me smile every time I hear her practice. Of course, there are also so many talented music artists in the world that we all love to listen to. As a matter of fact we’re listening to one of the weekly music countdowns as I write this post.

So, these are a few things I am so grateful for.