Friday Gratitudes

Just a few things I'm thankful for today...

1. I’m grateful for my husband who allows me to buy $600 treadmills without a second thought.
2. I’m blessed with a husband who stays up until 1am putting together said treadmill.
3. I’m glad the treadmill designers thought I would like to plug my iPod in and listen to my music through the speakers.
4. I’m thankful we haven’t had snow in a while. I can deal with the rain and lack of sunshine, but I’m so over the snow.
5. I’m thankful for Cass and the rest of my family, who provided excellent company and entertainment for 9 hours on Sunday at the hospital.
6. I’m grateful to God for delivering Samuel and Ashley’s twins to us in mostly good health, and for the healing he’s providing Kylie.
7. I’m thankful for the internet…a huge time-waster for me, but a source of so much inspiration (listen to this podcast with Ali Edwards, and her ideas on the topic of Story, so inspirational to me yesterday morning).
8. I’m extremely thankful for Amazon.com. In less than five minutes, I bought two items for an upcoming birthday gift and a book I’ve been eyeing, got free shipping, and it was delivered to my doorstep in three days. How does it get any better?
9. I’m grateful for a husband who will put his shoes back on and go pump my gas in the rain after he’s been home and showered for hours (I’m grateful for him a lot this week!).
10. Last, without getting up on my soapbox, I just want to say that I am grateful to the voters in Massachusetts. Never have I been more excited about a Massachusetts senate election.

I’m planning to try to start posting these every week again. I have a little idea of something I’d like to do with my weekly Friday Gratitudes. Just trying to solidfy my thinking on it and follow it up with a little concrete action before I post it.

Because posts are always better with pictures, and to show Cass that I wasn't always a cross-eyed Asian-looking baby, here's a lovely shot of me from Florida in 1988.