
From Jorje:
I think it is important to appreciate what you have and not just on Thanksgiving. It's important to remember to be grateful when your life feels abundant, but perhaps even more-so when times are hard. That said, I have some tough things going on right now and am having a hard time over here so… I want to challenge myself to remember all the things in my life for which to be grateful. I enjoyed the challenge at Let's Take the Metro a couple of years ago, so I'm going to challenge you in a similar fashion. Are you ready?
You can still participate and link up below!

- Even though our family is puke-tastically sick, we're having a nice quiet Thanksgiving at home.
- We're semi-fasting for the above reason, but we have good food on hand to break our fast when we can!
- Blackadder! Our choice of Thanksgiving Day sickbed amusement.
- String cheese, or as Mikko calls it, octopus cheese. Because I tear the bottom apart for him like a squid-ly thing before handing it over.
- Being able to homeschool our kids
- Two fluffy sweet kitties who love raw meat, lap cuddles, and stepping on sleeping babies
- The diaper service since Alrik's not up to potty independence quite yet
- Long hair and a 6-year-old who alternately plays with and complains about it
- Manifesting a hedgehog with Mikko by shopping for cage goodies
- Chocolate chips
- Floppy blonde hair
- Phone games. Oh, you delightful time wasters, you.
- Red woolen cloche
- Long walks where I can hear the waves
- Emails to and from my parents
- The brief, bright life of our ill-fated sea monkeys
- Natural Parents Network volunteers chatting on Facebook
- Reading the words of writers wise and inspiring
- Local friends
- Online compatriots
- Making progress on my writing
- Meeting new bloggy friends
- Chilling out with a mystery novel
- Sneaking away for alone time with my husband (take that, kids!)
- My six-year-old's unwavering faith
- Paleo chocolate chip cookie dough, made with élan and no measuring like a boss
- The opportunity to make money from writing
- Salami
- Indoor playspaces for chilly, drizzly winters
- Poetry
- People liking my jokes
- Mummy episodes
- Having my kids school me on popular music
- Curling up on the couch to watch the first Harry Potter movie with Mikko and answering his bajillion questions about it and seeing that he enjoyed it
- When my two-year-old refuses clothes all day and I can see his bones moving under his skin, but also how active and healthy he is
- Alrik's excited pleasure about … everything
- Working appliances
- Thick hair that resists wetting like a beaver pelt
- Missing teeth
- One tiny tooth in my change purse
- Beautiful photos to remember a full and happy year
- Feeling better about transitioning into new ways of thinking
- Our car is paid off. Boo-yah.
- My son's devotion to nummies
- Science experiments
- Mikko's laborious handwriting
- Reconnecting with their favorite (and only) cousin
- The pirate aprons she handmade the boys
- Fun TV shows to watch
- Cleaning up a couple rooms
- Anticipating working on Christmas sewing
- Warming my hands in hot water
- Warming my icicle feet — finally, finally — under the blankets
- Feeling at peace with family
- Comedians' standup on YouTube
- Ninja Cat, which never fails to make Mikko laugh
- Elephant and Piggie books
- Mikko's wholly unreasonable excitement over Switch & Go Dinos, in which he makes us watch the advertising videos multiple times a day and quizzes us on what each one is called, what dino it is, and what vehicle it turns into
- We have our health (more or less).
- Looking forward to cream cheese dip at Christmas
- Plans to see Frozen in a theater and smuggle in a Moist-Maker as a make-up Thanksgiving celebration
- Snow in the forecast
- Living in my neighborhood, with an amazing community blog that knows what's going on when I don't
- Thanksgivukkah
- Jigsaw puzzles
- Mikko beating me in every card game
- Visiting the pet store with kids like a cheap mini-zoo
- Doing patty-cake with Alrik and having him direct
- Remembering to speak German
- Naps, all around
- Finding a handyman who might someday install our sink downstairs
- Boots to jump in puddles with!
- Dangly earrings
- Mama roller coaster
- Planning a fun trip for the new year
- Super Shapes!
- Setting back up my keyboard and making music again
- Clean sheets and fluffy duvets
- Building a fire
- Video chatting with the grandparents
- In jokes
- Sleeping all together still in one tangle on a king-size mattress
- The comfiness of family cloth
- Enjoying the outdoors all summer
- Cotton
- Delicious dreams
- When Alrik plays kitty and brings me toys and demands pets
- Going to open houses for million-dollar homes we have no intent or hope to buy
- Warm showers
- Colorful stripy shirts on little boys
- Genetics at work
- Sleeping under quilts made by my mother and my grandmother (a silver-lining side effect of both our duvets getting barfed on) and feeling the comforting weight of maternal generations on top of me
- A Christmas tree lot that opened on my street
- Bus rides
- My kids' artistic creations
- Looking through the doll clothes my grandmothers made me when I was a girl
- Bubbles
- Two-year-old Alrik, he of the Power Rangers moves and parroting adorableness
- Mikko, 6 years' worth of charm, unending questions, excessive cheek, and snuggliness
- My partner in homeschooling, work, and Blackadder marathons: Sam
What are YOU grateful for?
1 comments:
What a lovely list! I really enjoyed reading it.
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