Today

Our first round of thankfulness went down well at tea time today :) We have a few little bits of paper stuck on the window with things we're grateful for :) It looks a bit messy but it's a good mess! I've tried this before, without sticking the notes up, but never really stuck to it (no pun intended!) but, now that it's an official goal that I've written down and everything, I think I'll be more intentional in doing it longterm :) Among other things my 5 yr old was thankful for food, snow, Christmas, toys, and Father Christmas.. My husband was thankful for a free computer (thanks to my sister and her husband who have just moved to America and left it behind!), and my 2 yr old said thank you when I gave him some pear so I'll add that to the notes later!

Today I'm thankful for my old school friend, Caroline Murdoch, moving back to Sheffield a couple of months before me. I'm thankful that, although meeting up has proved kinda tricky, that she had us round for her one yr old's birthday party this afternoon :) I bearly (sp?!) managed to speak to anyone for keeping my 5 yr old occupied who was wanting stories read to him, but it was nice to feel welcome, see friends, make (loose) arrangements to get together without kids so conversation might actually be had, and just to have somewhere to take the kids! I'm thankful that my family all ate the dinner I cooked, and that Caroline provided the lunch! I'm thankful for Josh and my 5 yr old having fun writing a story together in bed just now, about a 'beautiful farm'. For a nice little card-making session with the kids earlier. And I'm thankful that my 2 yr old is sleeping through the evenings so I can go read my book now without interruption!