The Gratitude Project

My dear friend Amy has started a blog. Or should I say: My dear friend Amy has started a blog!!! I'm very excited because in the relatively short time I have known her, she has poured so much wisdom into my little life that I'm anxious to learn more from and about her. Not to mention her witty sense of humor that I totally "get". Or that her suggestion of going the Charlotte Mason-way has completely revamped the look of homeschool at our house.

Anyway, Monday she posted that she has joined the Gratitude Community at A Holy Place...now my poor old browser (yes, I'm still complaining about my old computer...9 days and counting) couldn't handle that blog for some reason so I didn't make it over there to check out the details...but the gist is that you list 20 things you are grateful/thankful each Monday until you reach your goal.

I decided this was a great way to lead up to Thanksgiving around here so we started our Thanksgiving List. Indeed a great way to keep the focus off the ever-more-oft-mentioned Christmas Lists. 20 items a day should give us 200 blessings by Turkey Day; being Wednesday, we're up to 60...and it is a hodge-podge of yours-mine-and-ours as we have mass brain storming sessions to create the list with one rule: no repeats (though some are a bit close). I will attempt to not put side notes or sarcastic comments next to various items (but perhaps unfortunately, they are there in my brain!).

1. Soccer
2. T-Ball
3. Christmas
4. Food
5. Yummy-yummy food
6. My room
7. My canopy
8. My coach-Daddy
9. Tackle box
10. My husband who works hard to care for all of us
11. Television
12. Movies
13. Clothes
14. The world
15. An unseasonably warm fall
16. Summer
17. Sunny days
18. Sidewalk chalk drawings
19. Naomi, Stella & Ava
20. Disc golf
21. Discs
22. Hole-in-ones
23. Playing disc golf with Vince & Jeremy
24. Drinking beer w/Jeremy
25. Free beer from Jeremy
26. Randyl's new job
27. Eating candy
28. Zane
29. Chase, Will & Mia
30. Ice cream
31. Sleeping
32. New windows
33. The piano
34. Neighbor Kim
35. Caden & Marin
36. David & Kayla
37. Good friends
38. Grandmas & Grandpas
39. Our whole family
40. Elena
41. Kai
42. Dear sister Jodi
43. Warm sweaters
44. My bed
45. books
46. cowboy boots
47. bicycles
48. snowglobes
49. playgrounds
50. hot tea
51. close soccer fields @ the park
52. Miss Kim's pool
53. hats
54. snuggles from little ones
55. our van
56. markers
57. chalk
58. Halloween
59. Thanksgiving
60. my drawings