remembering to be thankful

I am thankful. Really I am. But if you were in my home yesterday you would have had to look really hard to have seen it. I was grumpy. Frustrated. Overwhelmed. Feeling ungrateful. I was allowing myself to get deeper and deeper into the 'I wants' instead of thinking of the 'I haves'!!

My kids were tired. My house was beyond mess. It was the first full day home for 3.5 weeks (we ended up going to town because of my restlessness) and everyone was fighting. All I could see was the thousand things I needed to DO, and not my children who needed ME. I was annoyed because they were in the way of my plans. I was reminded me of the post a while back about "Do they know?" and this image

I woke up this morning to realize that I need to turn my frown upside down!!! All of the things that made me grumpy yesterday are things that I can look at in a different light and be thankful for.

from my one thousand gifts

213. the dirty floors show me life and action in our home

214. kids who want to spend time with me

215. a home filled with so much stuff that it need constant organization

216. the priveledge of home-educating my children

217. the opportunity to plan our years learning together

218. a garden overflowing with bounty that needs tending and preserving

219. a yard that needs care - grass that keeps growing

220. mouths that need feeding because their bodies keep growing

221. a child learning something new for the first time- how to pump on the swing all by himself

222. taking the training wheels off!

223. watching him save, count, plan and learn about money. $37 so far

224. bedtime visits from grandparents

This post was written weeks ago... I read it again today, and felt it still applies :)