thankfuls 2012

 

1) thankful that my kids *want* me to go on field trips with them. because i want to spend as much time with them as they will let me have.

2) thankful that my family understands that i need a getaway, no matter how much i love them.

3) thankful that i have my art as an outlet. baking, scrapbooking, painting, photography, even learning to hang drywall and putting together the addition is art to me. i need my creative side fed far more often than people realize, and i love when i get to immerse myself in it.

4) thankful that i am a lucky one, having a house to come home to, that we withstood the wrath of last week's storm and my house is full of huggable people who will keep me warm tonight.

5) a couple hours early.... Thankful that when I came home, my other half had entertained a housefull of kids and steam cleaned my bedroom carpet. Wow. I should sleep pretty good tonight.

6) Thankful for my eldest offspring, who, even afraid, killed a hell-spider in the attic for her mother.

7) thankful for yesterday: i am thankful to have an open mind and accept new ideas. my parents did not have open minds when i was a kid and i learned from their stick-in-the-mud behavior. having an open mind is not the same as blindly believing everything... it is the ability to understand that there is another side of the argument - and possibly understanding that stance itself. i try to have an open mind... sometimes people slam that door in my face, but i try.

8) thankful that i am naturally an early riser. it makes morning sooooo much easier on myself AND my offspring. and that has nothing to do with the coffee.

9) thankful that my parents taught me right from wrong and to learn from the consequences of the choices i make. they taught me to look at all avenues of possibility (if there is enough time to do so) and choose the one that makes the most sense in the long run. i hope i am teaching these steps to my own kids.

10) thankful for to-do lists: if i don't make a list, everything gets horribly jumbled and i get far less accomplished because i am standing in the dining room, tapping my lip, thinking, "what was i gonna do??"

11) thankful today for my love of creating foods..... on my way to the kitchen to bake pumpkin and cinna-bun donuts.

12) thankful for a bunch of women i have never met. you know who you bitches are. from the virgin halls of a new mommy "facebook" to our own busted up playroom, to landing here... can you believe we have all (almost) been together for -wait... how long??? our imperfect lives spill onto the internet in personal messages, our private board and we have literally built our own village from CA to MN to LA to MD to HI....i love you all and thank you for the support you have given me. *raising a glass to my bitches* *hic*

13) Thankful for that first dark cup of coffee, first thing. Tasty wakiness.

14) thankful for my network. i may get all worked up and neurotic about things, but my people keep me in line, for the most part. thanks to my friends at work, i still have a job. thanks to my friends at home, i can vent and get over it. or, well, try to get over it. sometimes the "it" hurts a lot, and well, just, thank you.

15) my thankful from yesterday: yay for sleep.

16) my thankful for today: i will let you know if something crosses my path that doesn't piss me off.

17) today i am thankful for my imagination. without it, i would never come up with so many awesome swear words. and new recipes. i love inventing my own flavors.

18) thanks to Jennifer Wildt Terveer & Mike Terveer for volunteering to build in my house with me. You truly are awesomesauce.

19) thankful for a relatively stress-free workday & some OT.

20) i am thankful for my patience.

i helped a passenger with disabilities today, a really sweet girl. did all the additional screening by the book as usual and at the end she started to hug me. her mother asked for my name. i gulped (usually that doesn't end well...) and told her. she said, with tears in her eyes, that her daughter is usually scared in the airport because it is so loud and distracting - she was astonished that her daughter was unafraid of me.... and that she works for John S. Pistole and wanted to write him a letter expressing her appreciation for my professionalism. she also stated that she knows my job well, and that i did it "exactly right."

it's feels good to be recognized by a stranger that you're doing something right.

26) thankful today that not everyone has obnoxious cell phone noises installed. really? all that noise for a single text? AND typewriter noise when you reply? get over yourself please. Oh, and now i'm thankful that someone else told them to be quiet....it would not have been taken well coming from me.

....and that is all you get because i apparently skipped a full week and then stopped on the 26th.