Grateful Friday

 I am grateful I could stay home yesterday and rest.  I had a good nap in the afternoon and hopefully am ready to conquer again.

I am grateful that I got to see Braeden.  Emma came and spent the night on Wednesday as well.  I didn't really spend any time with them, but it made me happy as I was going upstairs to bed to see our three children laughing and talking over each other as they went down to the basement to stay up too late laughing and talking.  Their joy at being together bubbles around the room and I love it.  (We missed Anna and QE.  It's strange but true that what used to feel like everyone in our family doesn't anymore.)

I was grateful it worked out coincidentally that since I was home yesterday, I got to spend a little more time with Braeden than I otherwise would have.  He said I should come to the airport too and I figured I could sit in the car as well as sit in my chair at home.  We hit a Chick-fil-a for breakfast so I didn't even need to feel guilty about the fact that I didn't have any very good breakfast food around.

I enjoyed being with my boys.  They are funny and thoughtful and smart and I love them.

Later in the day, I was getting into the fridge and we have a little drawer in the bottom for meat and cheese.  The lid was askew and jammed that way and I couldn't fix it.  I was afraid I would break off one of the little plastic pegs so I did the sensible thing and called Mark to help.  He didn't immediately start applying his strength to it, he crouched down and looked up underneath it and said, "Oh, OK.  There's a lip on that side."  So he started on the other side and he quickly fixed it and didn't break anything.  

I said, "Mark!  You're a wonder!" 

He saluted me and said, "Let me know if you need anything else," as he walked away.  He probably says that to me ten times a day.  I am grateful to have him around.

Adult children are such a gift.  We are far from perfect as a family, but when I look at those kids, I just feel grateful.

I'm grateful Adam's cousin Pam is stopping to see me this afternoon.  She has a little pocket of time and is deciding to spend it on me, which I appreciate!

I am grateful we have a dinner date with Shannon tonight.  It was supposed to be Shannon and Chris, but he unexpectedly went out of town and Shannon and I decided we would still go to dinner.  The four of us can go another time.  A great thing about being this age is being free on a Friday night.  Our knees are kind of creaky, but we can always go to dinner with friends.  (As long as it isn't too late....)

Tomorrow we are going to dinner with Marianne and Robert.  Then, Robert and Adam are going to go to the BYU basketball game and Marianne is going to babysit me.

I am grateful for how kind people are to me, just over and over.  I got two nice care packages in the mail that were sent from Adam's work (one from the company in general and a personal one from the president) and a lady who used to work for him sent me the kindest card.  She lives in Texas and when I've joined Adam on trips there we've had dinner with her and I like her a lot.

Hannah sent me a conference talk she thought I'd like (Olivia had sent it to her).  My ministering sisters keep checking on me.  I honestly think they would bring me dinner every night if I let them.

How can my white blood cells and I possibly do anything except keep our chins up.  (Assuming white blood cells have chins.)

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. 

Robert Louis Stevenson