Blessing Day

The Great Grandparents!

Don and Nola Swenson, Bill and Mary Call, Lyle and Sheri Cole

Dad, Mom and Captain Awesome

Uncle Hay and Ry trying on each others ties.

The Star of the Day!

MCC

Today is Thrusday

I have to keep telling myself that. Yesterday I could have sworn it was Thursday.......until around 5:00 when a note reminding me of RS on Thursday came.........I wasn't alone, Megan thought the same thing.
Thursday, what is great about Thursdays?
It is the day before the weekend begins, 4th day of the work week,......ummmm, it's ummmmm......nothing. It is usually just another day.
I usually don't have any scheduled plans for Thursdays......just house work, and if am really lucky the 'maid' shows up.......and boy do I need her today.
My sister uses her blog on Thursdays as a day of thanksgiving.....appropriate since Thanksgiving day is a Thursday.....another great thing about Thursday, Thanksgiving, food, family, yum!
The thankful Thursday reminds me of the gratitude journals that were all the rage in the 90's. We all read the book Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach, she told us we could have the life we dream of and one of the steps toward of getting that life is to write a gratitude journal. Each day write down what you are thankful for, because we really are so blessed. This activity reminds me of one of my favorite quotes by Charles Dickens....Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I am very blessed......I have been so abundantly blessed with many earthy treasures. I also have been blessed with a good whole and healthy body, and a wonderful family and friends; but most important, I have been so richly blessed spiritually.

MCC

A Blessed Beautiful Day

I feel like I have lost a month...I am missing the Christmas Season, one of my favorite times of the year...I am so far behind December isn't even on my radar, and today is the 19th.....ahhh! 6 days 'till Christmas?!?!

But today things have changed....
After attending Hayden's Jr. High Christmas music assembly (what a painful experience for the ears...I don't love beginning strings, or madrigal groups that sing flat. The Band was good..especially the guy on the snare drum in Sleigh Ride, and the bells in Mr. Grinch), we exited the building into a winter wonder land. It had been snowing since mid morning, and it has snowed several times in the past week (I know I have shoveled every time and boy are my arms sore), so I was not missing the snow....but coming out of the school everything was different, things looked better and felt exciting. When we arrived home a few minutes later my house was different as well, the decorations and lights looked special. The Christmas magic was in the air! Today was a day when everything fell together in a perfect rhythm....holiday music, snow, lights, family together, good holiday smells, Christmas projects being completed....it was a beautiful day, a perfect pre-Christmas Day. It reminded me of days from my childhood...the days that lasted forever and ever and the days when everything was just right.

With the perfectness of this day I didn't catch up on my list, or have time from the past month renewed to me...but I know this day was made for me. A day to fulfill a deep need inside of me, a day to find peace and be at peace with the way things are. Because of the perfectness of this day I know that I am loved and blessed by my Heavenly Father.
What a wonderful, blessed, beautiful day!

MCC