Grateful Friday: a list

• reading poetry to third graders
• reading Beverly Cleary to third graders
• toast
• sunshine
• plants
• my friends--we're planning another get together in March and I'm ready!
• I get to go to the BYU Literary Promise conference
• Adam
• cross-stitch
• Trader Joe's
• pura diffusers (Adam got one as a gift and I liked it so much I bought another one.  Adam gets really fancy gifts at work and I get mugs and packets of hot chocolate.  But he shares.)
• Joan, my beloved car
• Zelda, Jamie's beloved car
• the fact that Jamie is my friend and we talk about everything from nail polish to education to our children to the Gospel of Jesus Christ
• how easy it is to crack my students up
• good books to read
• the freedom to abandon books that are just meh
• podcasts, especially the Follow Him podcast
• Adam reading aloud to me (he's reading a Finnish book right now--it's translated into English but I like to hear him pronounce all the Finnish names)
• texts and calls from our children
• A new calendar and a new season (I know it's not spring until later in the month but in my mind, March is spring)