Gratitude

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." - Buddha

Sometimes when I pray at night, I thank the Lord for everything. I thank him for my arms, legs, eyes, toes, sense of taste, and sight. I thank him for my mistakes, the lessons learned, and the lessons I have yet to learn. I thank him for my family, the members I have now and the ones yet to come. I thank him for the snow I dread so much as well as the warm sun in the sky. I thank him for a place to lay my head at night and a school I learn in by day. I thank him for my health and the health of my family. I try to think of everything.

Lately I've been feeling not just thankful, but grateful. I have such gratitude in my heart that it is overflowing. The blessings that I have been given are immense and innumerable and number more than the stars I'm sure. My life is great and it will continue to be great, no matter what comes my way.

I am so grateful for the life I have been given and the opportunities that I have to make life what I want it to be. I hope that everyone can feel as blessed and grateful as I do, because we have all been given so much.

~I wish to everyone a happy Thanksgiving ~

The Ladybug

One day last week, Adelaide told me that she found a ladybug. It was sitting in the lid of a shoebox, just sitting there on the coffee table. I thought it was dead because it hadn't moved a bit and she was kind of squishing it. It was time for her nap and she really, really wanted to snuggle it. So I, figuring it was dead, said ok.

She took it with her and set the shoebox lid on the pillow next to her. A few hours later I went in to see if she was awake. She was, but I couldn't find where the lid or the ladybug had gone to. I finally found the lid wrapped up in her blanket, but no ladybug. So I helped her out of bed and sure enough, there was the ladybug. But it wasn't dead, it was crawling all over the sheets where she had been laying.

I'm glad the ladybug wasn't dead, so was she.

Too Long

I can't believe how long it's been since I've posted. Don't worry it's for a good reason and hopefully I'll get back to it soon. But in the meantime, I have a horrible headache that just won't quit. That's not very uplifting, but hopefully the way I feel when it's gone will be.