Although my job is killing me lately, I've got a lot of wonderful things and wonderful people in my life to be thankful for. Things I'm loving right now:
- Advent -- everything about Advent!
- The new Mass translation-- there's a lot of talk out there about if it is or isn't a good thing. But I really love it. The prayers have added depth, and though my response is typically "And also... with your spirit" I am beginning to catch on.
- Decorating for Christmas -- it's mostly there, but I've got a couple things I still need to find in the depths of the Christmas boxes. It's starting to look pretty, although the chaos of empty boxes and shipping boxes may be detracting from the overall look.
- Friends... I am blessed with so many incredible friends! And I am blessed by them in too many ways to even recount here.
- Friday night I had dinner with a friend and went to a perfectly awful Christmas play at the local high school. Though the play was truly awful, but it was great to hang out and catch up with one of my good friends who I rarely see.
- My grandparents -- I love those people!! It's been longer than usual since I've been out to have dinner with my mom's parents, so I called and talked to Gram the other night. She's such a gem. I will be heading out for dinner with them next week. And my dad's dad called me out of the blue the other day. He had a great idea for the family calendar that I always make and pictures he wanted me to scan and get in there (this is definitely a first!) So I went out to Northville and scanned some photos with him and then sat down and listened as he told stories. I love that! He also agreed to come live with me if I get my farm :D
- Christmas cards -- though I am not together enough to get started on my own, I am LOVING all the ones coming in the mail. Especially because all of my friends have such cute munchkins. There's nothing like opening a cute munchkin card after a long day to put a smile on my face.
- Suzie (Maggie is off the list over the bathroom garbage at present)-- I do love my pups, even in their current needy state (my fault entirely). They are good company, good listeners, and Suzie is quite the snuggler.
- Weekends!! Yesterday I had a day at home which was marvelous. And then toward the end of the day I opted to go to Sat. evening Mass which was great and leaves today as another home day. Lovely and just what the doctor ordered. So here I am sitting in my sweatpants and three wolf moon sweatshirt boring you with my thankful list :)
- My cordless drill-- haven't used it enough lately but yesterday I had to pull her out to do some repairs and boy I love the old cordless drill -- and the newly repaired baby gate going to the basement.
- My neices and nephews, who I think are 10 of the greatest kids alive (totally unbiased opinion, obviously). It's hard having so many of them far away, but those kids hold such a special place in my heart and in my life. And this week I went to Geno and Lucy's school songfest, which was pretty entertaining. Geno was in the choir. There he was, eyes huge, stiff as a board, collar rumpled, shirt half untucked and looking rather nervous, but obviously the cutest kid up there. He sang beautifully in spite of the nervousness. The kid next to him had us in stitches. Every few seconds she would twitch and move and then scratch either her crotch or her butt, smiling sweetly the entire time. Kids are so entertaining. Then Lucy came out with her class as Tinkerbell. For her part she danced around with Peter Pan and then at the very end, the kids each had a line about the importance of reading- some so faint you couldn't hear them, and Lu had the big finish, loud, clear and concise. That's my girl.
- Christmas projects - yesterday I finished the family calendar. A week before Christmas!!! I also did a couple little sewing projects and have a couple more I hope to finish. I also had a brilliant idea that didn't work at all in practice- so I'm starting over on that one.
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