November 30, 2011

Today I'm thankful for friends...you know, the ones who you can REALLY call friends. Today I got several messages from friends to let me know that I matter. WOW! Even a quick note hi or an "I'm so glad your eyes are sparkling again..." or even an I'm here to help if you need me to means the world to me. I just hope that I can be as good of a friend to someone else as my friends have been to me. I pray that God will use me to be that inspiration in someone else's life and that he would lead me and guide me to where he'd like to use me.

November 29, 2011

Today I am thankful for time! This morning I was all worked up because Nathan switched cars so that he could take our one in to have a seatbelt fixed, but he left me with a car that had hardly any gas in it at all...so I HAD to stop and get gas. I had that few extra minutes this morning to stop and fill up the gas tank so I wouldn't get stranded on the side of the highway.

I am also thankful for the time I get to spend in the car with my son after school on the way home. Today we spent it singing and making up songs about the stinky garbage truck we passed on the highway. It was hilarious and we BOTH had smiles on our faces and laughs from the belly. After getting home tonight from work (which is usually Nathan's time to spend with Kyler) we decided to take Kyler to a Christmas lights parade in downtown Holland. We spent time together as a family and even though it was FREEZING outside and I would have rather been inside wrapped in a warm blanket, I had a smile on my face and it just warmed my heart to see my son with such a huge smile on his face getting candy from the girls in the parade (even though it was late and past Kyler's bedtime). Kyler loved it and so did I! Thank the LORD!

November 28, 2011

Today I am thankful for Mondays. I know a LOT of people who HATE Mondays because it is the start of the week or because Mondays are always SOOOOOOO busy, or because Mondays are soooooo long, (and I even find myself complaining sometimes about Mondays) but I really am thankful for Mondays. If I make it through my Mondays I feel pretty good (even though come Friday I'm exhausted!). Today's Monday brought really energetic students that were very happy (not angry like usual) and they listened. Today also brought a doctor's appointment to check on that little life growing inside me. I was again reminded that God loves me and only wants the best for me. I heard the baby's heartbeat loud and strong and was told that everything is on track and looks GREAT! What a great way to start off the week! I have lots more Mondays to look forward to! Praise the LORD for a GREAT start to my week.

November 27, 2011

Today I am thankful for warmth. With it being a wet rainy day outside, I am thankful I can come in the house and snuggle up on the couch (or in my chair to write a blog post) with a nice warm blanket. My house is probably not the warmest on the block (that's what you get when you don't want your heat bill to be through the roof in November!) but it's not freezing and if it is cold, I have the ability to put on a sweatshirt and curl up under a nice warm cozy blanket. It's more than some people have and for that I am thankful!

November 26, 2011

Today, I am thankful for my husband! After all his complaining yesterday about Black Friday shopping, he did come out shopping with me and we got ALL of our gifts bought for Kyler for Christmas AND his birthday! YAY! When we got home from the inlaws today Nate helped me wrap the gifts so Kyler couldn't peek...but my thankfulness today came in riding home in the car with Nate.

I was talking with him about how Satan allows me to worry sometimes about my marriage and where we will be in the future and I got thinking about how long we will have been together on our anniversary coming up in June...I realized after thinking about it for all of 2 seconds that today, November 26th marked 10 years that we have been together to the day! That's a LONG time...and for that time, I am thankful! God is good and he has blessed me with a wonderful husband that not only cares about me but loves me and wants to stick with me forever! Alright, well I better sign off for now. I could go on and on about my hubby, but he's buggin me right now to spend a little "tv watchin" time with him! Til tomorrow:)

Friday November 25, 2011

So today I was thinking...I've started over now 3 times...I just can't decide what to write about I guess. My thankfulness today comes after spending time with family as well as the man I love...I did a TON of wonderful things today, but the thing I am MOST thankful for is spending time snuggling my little man. After spending time with family since Wednesday and not really sleeping well, today at about 5pm, Kyler crashed and crashed HARD! I took him upstairs because he hadn't had a nap yesterday or today to try and at least get a little shut eye. He laid right down on the bed next to me and we were both cashed out immediately! I am thankful that God granted me the ability to care for and raise my child and that he entrusted his life to me! Kyler snuggling up to me was just a reminder to me of how God cares for me and loves me too!

New Project...

So I was thinking the other day how everyone EXCEPT me was writing notes of thanks for the month of November. I decided that it would be fun (if I can keep on myself to do it) to write just a quick blurb about what I'm thankful for for an entire year so that next year around Thanksgiving I can look back at my "notes" and see what exactly I was thinking and what I was thankful for. I may not catalog everything on here, but I'm gonna at least give it a go to see how it goes and hopefully when I'm then back at home I can write in my journal and share as I see fit...so....without further adu I guess I should start for my thoughts from yesterday.

Thursday November 24, 2011
My first thought is where to start. What am I thankful for the most and what am I going to start with? Where to start...I'm thankful for the God I serve! He guides me, leads me, tests me, helps me, heals me, trusts me, answers me, pushes me, carries me, uses me, and so much more. I'm so thankful for a God to serve that not only brings me through the valleys so my eyes are opened but a God who brings me to the tops of the hills to be able to look out on all that I have to be thankful for. What a full and satisfying feeling to be able to serve this God. So today, I'm just thankful to God for being there in every single circumstance...even the bad ones!