Grateful

I have not been the consistent blogger I wished I would be. So much of me gets wrapped up in everyday life of raising four kids and being a wife and figuring out everyday who I really am and then how to be her, really. And though our list of counted blesssings has not been posted here week after week, it is ever so slowly growing. Several times this week I walked past it to see that someone knew had written a gratefulness down and let me peak into their heart for a moment and I was thrilled. I don't always know which of us has written each gratitude and I think that makes it even more thrilling! The adventure of finding out who is grateful for #6 and #26 is one worth taking.

#5 Bags and bags of clothes to grow in to
#6 A seeing mother
#7 Deep hearts and wide open eyes
#8 A few pig-tailed girls
#9 Passion for Baseball but not bruises
#10 Choices
#11 Last day of school
#12 Lazy days
#13 Never being without food
#14 Never-ending hand-me-downs filling closets with cuteness
#15 Standing upright to view the world
#16 Electric carts and wheeeeelchairs
#17 The "bright one's" many colorful moods
#18 "Beautiful Hogger Brown's" pouty bottom lip
#19 The "Hero-Helpers" helpfulness (without complaint ...what a joy!)
#20 "Little Legs" sweet hiding and pure innocence
#21 Mr. Wonderful's patience and never-ending positivity
#22 Sisters and brothers who come to visit
#23 Cousins who play together so well
#24 40 years of staying together and showing us what a covenant is
#25 That my life is short in this house and that a new life can begin
#26 Having a father that cares
#27 Brothers and sisters to play with
#28 A bed to sleep in
#29 Clothes to wear
#30 A house to keep me dry
#31 A family that loves
#32 Good memories to look back on for advice
#33 Children that get me a drink of water
#34 Music that means something getting stuck in my head
#35 Solitude to help me listen better
#36 The awkwardness of a morning wake
#37 Running late on a Sunday morn
#38 Date Night!
#39 Waist's that bend to pick up trash (even if it's the 100th time Titus' got into it)