Grateful Friday

 I am grateful for FaceTime!  I love talking to QE and reading her stories (she says, "Can I read you a story, Nana?" and "Another one!" and it is the most irresistible thing in my life).  Her little voice could solve world peace.

The other night she said, "Something on my toe is bothering me."

Braeden inspected her toe and trimmed her toenail and I just marveled at her sentence.  How is she so grownup to say something is bothering her?!?  She's growing fast and it just keeps getting better.

I'm grateful for time with Adam.  He's been home lately and I'm glad.  I appreciate time to talk about things great and small.

I'm grateful that we are having a grown up transfer of power in the country, because it could have gone the other way and that would have been anything but a grown up concession.

How bottom of the barrel are my silver linings on that one?!?  

I'm grateful to be a teacher.  That usually makes this list.  Those kids are cute and smart and witty and easy to make laugh.

I'm grateful to be a mother.  Those kids are cute and smart and witty and not as easy to make laugh, but less whiny.

A lot less.

I'm grateful it was super quick when I got my oil changed.  Is there anything better than a sort of dreaded task ending up easy? It's the little things.

I love autumn.  I love November.  (Although recess duty is cold.) I love Thanksgiving.

There's always something to be grateful for.