with all the blustery weather coming our way i have felt like chilly willy the penguin for the past three days. hence, the hair on my legs has been growing at an alarming rate.
to illustrate…this morning dallin came in early and hopped on our bed. he usually starts out jumping which then turns into wrestling.
during our little ruff and tumble bout this morning he let out a shriek, “stop it, mom! your whiskers are hurting me!”
so much for my femininty! 🙂
so much to be thankful for this week. glad i took the time to think of specific blessings each day. it was good for the soul. and fun to have friends join in.
so to wrap it all up, i’ll end with this…
i am indeed grateful for the nativity set on our table and the baby jesus at the center of it all.
and that all the light strands lit up when i set up the christmas tree. hallelujah!
christmas, here we come!
so grateful for time.
seems like when it rains, it pours. and this time is no different.
we’ve been on a “family high” for the past few weeks and it has softened the times of drought when we are without.
my sister and her family were here this week and then jeff’s brother and family dropped in today on their way back to arizona.
it’s been a joy to have a full house and hear dallin and ella laughing and playing with cousins.
and soon we’ll be back to just us again. ugh… 🙁
but we are thankful.
for smiles. and laughs. and chasing. and sword fighting. and treats. and movies. and time.
time together.
i do not like shopping in traffic jams. i do not like it, sam i am!
nothing like getting a ticket while you are out shopping on the most dreadful day of the year. and nothing like seeing the money that you weren’t even going to spend now going to pay for a dumb mistake.
ah, joy. it’s these times that you prove your real gratitude, right? if you can play the glad game when you really aren’t glad–that’s the test.
so today i am thankful for laws. they are put in place to protect us. and if we obey, all will be fine. 🙂
and i’m also thankful for wonderful sisters who are still watching out for me. love you!
for family.
i am sad that we were not all together this year. but i am thankful for each of them.
thankful to be a mom, sister, daughter, and wife.
– the approaching season that signifies the savior
– hot chocolate with loads of whip cream
– dallin’s preschool teachers
– emails from granny mask
– and this . . .
happy wednesday!
I am enjoying this little exercise in gratitude! I find myself thinking throughout the day about particular things I am grateful for that I probably wouldn’t have recognized. I love turning my mind to the positive because too often the negative prevails. Not letting it happen this week!
So today I am grateful for:
-a quiet moment of prayer to start the day
-cousins from Utah who arrived in town this morning. yippee!!
-soft kisses from a little girl and wrestling tackles from a big boy
-disposable diapers. enough said!
-seeing the sunshine every day for two months straight
-my hunka hunka burnin’ love. 😉
happy tuesday!
i know my gratitude does exist outside of this one week. but by taking the time to think it and write it each day, i hope to get more out of the holiday than just a good meal. 🙂
today i’m especially thankful for:
good health (i am not taking this for granted after being sick for a week)
my parents (they are here to visit and we all love it)
our Heavenly Father’s plan (this knowledge gives even the monotonous days purpose and meaning)
being a mother (gives me great joy, rejoicing, and confusion) 😉
a husband whom i adore and adores me (even when i’m experiencing a looney woman phase)
my toothbrush (thank goodness there is a cure for morning breath)
happy monday!
so, the other day i had one of those proud mama moments.
i imagine it is similar to what i would feel like after sending my kiddie off to college. it all starts from the moment you gave that baby life and all the struggles to help them turn out right. then you send them off and hope they can make something of themselves in the big world out there.
i couldn’t help but smile when i saw my “babies” surviving and thriving out in cyberspace! ok, silly analogy, i know. but you get the idea. 😉
i was on scrapnfonts a few days ago and ran across these in the idea gallery. i absolutely loved seeing what someone else did to bring these to life.
looks like they are adjusting to college life quite nicely and i couldn’t be prouder. 🙂
i realize that it must appear that i only talk about haircuts around this place. if i were to do a survey, i suppose that it would be my most frequently revisited topic. so at the risk of sounding completely vain, i am once again talking about hair. probably because it is a source of great angst in my life. that and thighs…oh, hair and thighs…
if only i could have thinning thighs instead of thinning hair. hah! 🙂
introducing the haircut, which oddly enough wasn’t so much of a hair “cut.” after being stuck somewhere between blond and brown, i decided it was time to find the brunette girl again. and then i went out on a completely crazy limb and decided to grow a long, voluminous head of hair right before my very eyes. the secret: clip-in hair extensions. yes, it was definitely one of the most exhilarating trips to the salon i have ever experienced. it was like putting on glasses for the first time to see what you’ve been missing or tasting european chocolate or yogurt and wondering where it’s been all your life. 😉
talk about feeling like a new woman! there is hope in a package! thin-haired ladies of the world unite!
p.s. in the future i will try to keep the frivolous haircut blogging to a minimum. 😉