Reasons to be Grateful

While avoiding household chores or pretending to be quiet for a slumbering babe or some other lame excuse I have been looking at other blogs and noticed a large amount of grateful posts. It is so easy to get caught up in hostile moments of sleep deprivation and forget just how really great we have it, so here goes:

1. A wonderful husband who likes to rub my feet at the end of a long day and who works hard to take care of the family we have built.
2. A three year old who makes me cry with laughter doing the Hotdog dance, there needs to be video footage!
3. Grateful to be the mama to this sweet spaghetti eater.

4. To have parents that are here to celebrate all of life's little moments and are only ever a phone call away.
5. Friends, those that are next-door, across town, in-state, in country and over the great blue sea. I can't imagine life without your encouragement, laughter, and openness.
6. The most magnificent fall weather I can ever remember.
7. Chocolate
8. A gray muzzled dog that is always happy to just "be" with me.
9. A big beautiful home in a quiet neighborhood.
10. A job with teenagers.