Each fall to date, my schedule and stress level have turned a gentle corner together into greater peace. This year, my daily schedule has not yet relieved, but my mind has calmed. Here are things I’m grateful for this season.
- The quiet of my house in the afternoons, while my toddlers nap
- My favorite weather of the whole year: nippy nights, days of sun
- Free bussing to and from school
- Music – someone said that sad music helps you be happy, and I’ve found it true
- Lots of kids I love
- Ryan’s patience and goodness
- Cinnamon rolls
- The first of the colored leaves
- Jokes
- Professionals and their advice
- Good food, and the fact that I get to cook it
- New stonework laid by our porch, thanks to my dad
- Writing ideas galore
- Modern appliances – what would I do without my fridge? Or my coffee pot?
- Friendship
- Fall décor – like pumpkins and Indian corn – my favorite!
- A bright-eyed class of preschoolers in Sunday school
- The weekly help of a woman who volunteered to keep one of our toddlers during church services, for as long as we need it – it makes me want to cry, every time
- Communication
- No snow – my northern friends are posting pictures of it already, and I want them to keep it All
What are you thankful for?
I love your list of gratefuls Shari.
My list of gratefuls:
1. My husband Tim wasn’t killed in the car accident on Friday that totaled our car.
2. The overwhelming generosity of our church offering to let us borrow a car until we can find one.
3. For the rain that’s coming this week
4. For my sweet family
5.Fall weather
6. Sipping pumpkin spice tea anytime of the year
7. Pretty teacups for drinking tea in
8.Food in the fridge
9. Dollar Tree for having Rice -a- Roni so I can add chicken for a complete meal.
10. Fall decor from Dollar Tree
11. My Bible and using Beside the Still Waters for devotions
12. Chocolate
13. This cozy house that God led us to
14. Preschoolers who come give you a hug when come help in their Sunday school class
15. Our kitty who sits in the window and waits for us to come home
16. Books I can get for review at no charge
17. Friends I have made through visiting their blogs
18. Publications like Keepers at Home and Calvary Messenger that always has wholesome and godly material
19. Crochet hooks and yarn for making lovely creations.
20. Slow Cookers. They have been lifesavers on so many occassions.
This list is so wonderful! Would love to hear your list of ‘sad music’ 😉 very interested….
Mmm. I think the ones they had in mind were classical, some of the softer and mournful pieces like Adagios or Mozart’s Requiem or Chopin’s Waltz 69. I have also found crying songs healing overall, especially guitar music and voices of the Simon & Garfunkel variety. Something about it lets the sorrow escape your heart instead of being trapped inside.
My husband, Andreas; he’s extraordinarily good to me and the children.
Fall weather.
My sisters are coming to visit; they rarely do.
My children, who do adorable so well.
My church, full of real people.
Communion on Sunday.
Dried cranberries.
Fall colors.
Clean windows, and Stephanie, who gets the credit for that.
I am grateful for children, travels, friends, quiet corners of the world, home, rest, sleep, good reports of our children’s behavior while we were gone, snow and the beginning of a new season!
I am grateful to Jesus that a Tremendously Stressful situation with our foster care agency has turned a corner and that we are known to be people of integrity.