Another thankful Thursday

The girls, Shane, Abby, and neighbor kids were playing soccer after school.

It's cloudy, 53, and drizzly, but they played like it was sunny and warm!


The weatherman talked about a warmup for today. Guess he was right, because it was 53 out, but I was freezing!! It was drizzly, cloudy, windy, and was just cold. The girls had such fun playing outside that I didn't have the heart to tell them it was cold. They came in so excited and happy. I love it when they all try to talk at the same time, and tell me three different things at once!

The girls are out of school tomorrow for teacher's conference. Then they are out Monday for MLK day. Hmmmmmm. Four days out of school. They just missed two days for snow and ice. They could be making up these two days tomorrow and Monday. Now the city is talking all the time these days about money, cutting waste, people working for free for one day a week, yada, yada, yada. Ok. So why don't they use these days to make up for lost days of school? No one likes to run long at the end of the school year to make up days that should have been made up during the year. Spring break could be 2 days shorter, for instance. Hey~ I'm a freaking genious here. Maybe I'll call the school superintendant tomorrow. Oh. That's right...no school tomorrow.

But, I'm off subject here. Sorry. I'll behave.

I'm so thankful that it's warmed up a little. Single digits is just too cold for me. I feel like my bones are frozen, and they refuse to melt. It's hurts to be that cold. And that's with the furnace set nearly on 75 and Dennis asking me to leave it alone. Guess it's just me cold.......

I love being a mom. I'm so thankful to have these beautiful girls here with me. I know I'm only mom to Ally, but Brianna and Cheyenne have been here since they were in diapers. The woman who wipes the nose, changes the diaper, cleans up the throw up, gentle the fears, comforts the tummy ache, takes the child to the e.r. for stitches, etc gets to wear the title of MOMMY!! And that would be me. They give me so much pleasure. They comfort me, gentle my fears, make me laugh, and fill my heart with love.

It's so good to have the decorations all down. We put everything up earlier this year than usual, but I just felt so thankful and so strong this year. We all just loved Christmas this year. How can anyone NOT love Christmas?? I don't mean shopping, spending money, buying unnecessary stuff, and stressing out. I mean the lights seen through a child's eyes; the beautiful tree (even a tree that in reality doesn't look too good); the angels, the snowmen, the eggnog, Christmas cookies, the laughing, the extra hugs just because....... That's the Christmas I love. My mom often told me how much she loved Christmas. Man, could that woman decorate a tree! She used the real angel hair on the trees when I was a little girl. Then when you squinted your eyes real tight, the tree was BEAUTIFUL. That's one memory I hope I never lose. And I'm losing lots of memories really fast.......

I'm thankful for everything I can still remember. A funny thing happened over on my brother's facebook page one day. I saw a name that looked familiar and I invited this person to be my friend on my own facebook. Well, she accepted. I looked at that name over and over, and looked at the names over on her own facebook page, and I swear I don't know this person. I knew her for a minute, now it's all gone. That makes me very sad. It's happened a couple more times now. I think I'll refrane from inviting people unless I remember them for three days in a row. I'm sure I knew these people once upon a time. Maybe we were even friends. I don't know.
And it's so strange how I will suddenly remember someone/something at the oddest times. Then it'll be gone again. So I'm thankful for the people and things I do remember.

I'm thankful for every step I take that I can take on my own. I'm thankful for nights that I fall asleep, and sleep all night. I'm thankful for days that aren't so painful. I'm thankful that the changing of doctors will be over shortly. I still need a referral for a new cardiologist. It's really hard to change heart doctors. The one I had literally saved my life twice. Thanks, Dr Bare. I'll probably need to change neurologists, too, but I'm hoping that can be delayed a little while, as well as changing kidney specialists. Sure wish I didn't have to do all this. It makes me so tired to think about it.....