I am thankful for a camera that gets pictures like this!
So...I am going to flood myself with thankfuls...and we'll see if you can overdose on thankful thinking.
This morning, I am super thankful for our school district. I am thankful that they seem to go the extra mile to make sure that their students can thrive and that we have had nothing but helpful people as we try to get Banana ready for middle school. I am thankful that we can have her in that school building as often as we need over these two weeks before school so that she KNOWS the building and has more confidence starting. I am thankful that she is beginning to realize, again, that there is a lot of support for her and people that are rooting for her and wanting her to thrive.
I am also thankful for my oldest daughter, Toad. She is most of the time the most patient little thing I have ever known. She may have a super quick temper, but she is also super intuitive to people's moods and has that want-to-be-helpful tendency like her momma. I am thankful that God gave me opposites for children, and that He blessed me with both of them. Because I honestly would NOT want to do this life without them. I am also super thankful that she is willing to show her sister the ropes, indulge us while we make a billion trips to school during the summer, and that she loves when I sneak her some alone time. I am thankful that both my girls love to read, because I do, too.
Beyond those...I am thankful for my parents and adopted parents (in Tennessee) and that they spend so much time talking things through with me. Especially on weeks where my whole life feels like it was thrown for a loop again. Being a single mom can utterly suck at times, and it is so appreciated that they are willing to let me almost even yell in frustration and not let their feelings get hurt by my inability to hold things in sometimes...knowing that I am not yelling in frustration AT them, but over the situation. I am thankful for their wisdom and that they are so willing to share that wisdom with me.
I am also thankful that after a week of hours upon hours upon hours of computer time, and photographing bags, and editing pictures, and crashing internet/slow internet, that there is an end in sight to getting the etsy shop fully loaded and that when that is done, the on-order fabric should be here and I should have time to sew again. I am also thankful for a new direction to take some of the bags, that would help me be a little more affordable and portable for outdoor shows...and that my cellphone wristlets have had such a good response. It's fun when its a pattern you created yourself and it gets a great response!
I am also thankful for summer hours and the ability to sleep in later, which lets me stay up later at night! I am a night owl, but that's difficult during the school year. We love the sleep in times for summer.
I am thankful that we were able to visit my parents' and their peaceful acres more often this summer than we have been able to do since moving to KC.
I am thankful that God knows our situation and exactly how He is going to provide for us to be able to keep going.
I choose to be thankful, but honestly...there is lots to be thankful for if I will just allow myself to see it.
