Count Your Blessings

Now, you all know what a good gleaner I am…

  

I gleaned the idea to make a yearly list of things I love from my young friend Rebecca. Each year on her birthday, Rebecca makes a list of things she loves- at 25 she listed 25 things, at 26, 26 things, etc.

 

While relaxing in Whistler with girlfriends, I made my list according to the age I’ll be next birthday:
  1. Apple crisp a la mode

    2.
  2. The smell of coffee

    3.
  3. Fletch's midday phone calls

    4.
  4. IMing with Smidge

    5.
  5. Chai Tea Lattes

    6.
  6. Bed

    7.
  7. My buckwheat pillow

    8.
  8. Wool slippers

    9.
  9. neck hugs

    10.
  10. Tasha Tudor

    11.
  11. Listerine Pocket Packs

    12.
  12. Fuzz Buzzes (fresh peach drinks my hubby makes)

    13.
  13. Cashmere

    14.
  14. Scharffenberger

    15.
  15. It's It

    16.
  16. Mozart

  17. Diego Rivera

    18.
  18. The beach

    19.
  19. Dinners on the back porch

    20.
  20. The library reservation program

    21.
  21. Hiring someone to do the ironing

    22.
  22. Sitting in the hammock with the kids

    23.
  23. Fountains

    24.
  24. Valley summer evenings

    25.
  25. drawings

    26.
  26. Knitting with soft yarn

    27.
  27. Dulce de leche

    28.
  28. Summer

    29.
  29. Wimbledon

    30.
  30. Emails from my brother Jeff

  31. Fly

  32. Best friends

    33.
  33. Mays in Canada

    34.
  34. freckles

    35.
  35. Milly Molly Mandy

    36.
  36. watching little people I love grow up

    37.


    It’s just good practice to count our blessings and focus on what makes us smile. Often we mothers of preschoolers get bogged down in the nitty gritty of our days. Pulling our heads up out of the work and responsibility to take a refreshing breath of air can give us a thankful, joyful nudge toward the next days, weeks, months and years.


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