What I Love

Thankful list for today.

Sometimes I need reminders...

My husband.  It's amazing how better I sleep when he's here!

My kids & their significant others.  Or as they probably refer to themselves as blog fodder.

My grandson.  the biggest contributor to my blog and one of my bigger responsibilities.

My job.  While I do gripe at times, I'm thankful I have employment.  Especially from home. Telecommuting is pretty addictive.

My followers!  You guys are awesome.

My headphone.  My chiropractor is thankful for that too.  Well, maybe not as thankful as I am.

Catching up with old friends.

Of course God.  Without Him, all this life stuff is meaningless.

I'm pretty sure that Southern Gal must keep a list on her fridge all week long to get her list so exhaustive.  I'm exhausted after just writing a few...  Oh yeah, you may or may not be able to get to her blog...

Brooke trying on the dress when it arrived.

I want to spend my lunch sewing on Meri's Belle dress.  It may or may not happen.  Not feeling so hot.  I might just veg on the couch...

Kristin showing off the hat she got to round out the outfit.

Early out today for school.  It'll be great hearing Leon's voice calling through the house.  He'll spend his free time with his dad, until his dad goes to work.

The final product.  She's lovin' it!

Have a great Wednesday!

S'now Problem...

Short week!  yay...  But lots to do until then.  So...

McVal's weekend review.

We got dumped on by 7+ inches of snow starting Friday afternoon until the wee hours on Saturday.  After blowing out the snow, I actually made it to my sewing meeting on Saturday morning.  Thankfully it started an hour later than usual.

Leon and his daddy checking out the first snow of the year.  Leon is wearing his dad's shoes.

Did the rest of the shopping for Thanksgiving and headed home.  The boys helped me unload and put things away.  The back hall is loaded down with all the ingredients and extra supplies we'll need for Thursday and Friday.

A friend from my sewing meeting gave me 3.5 big boxes of Burda magazines!!!  I'm going to be splitting them with a couple other ladies at the next month meeting, so in the meanwhile, I spent about an hour that night browsing through pick and choosing which ones I wanted to keep!  I still have a lot to go through, but the rest may wait until I'm perusing them next to a Christmas tree with the girls...

On Sunday, I spent about 4 hours working on the ASG newsletter.  I need to have that done and ready to send to our sewing members before Thanksgiving or at least by Friday.  So I have to have it to my gal Friday before Wednesday so she can get them printed and sent.  I got a lot done and still have more to do.  Not much though.  The other ladies in my group were very helpful throwing me some content at the last minute!

And so it's Monday and the week I'm supposed to be "thankful".  And I am... REALLY!

Here are a few things I'm thankful for.

My God

Robb

my parents

my kids

my grandkid

my siblings

my extended family

my friends

home

warmth

water softener

jobs

and patience, but I'd be more thankful if I had a wee bit more of that...

And for my imaginary super hero power.  I'm thankful for my super hero power of elaste-arms.  So while I'm frantically working in my office, I could stretch one arm out into the kitchen and grab those cashews I've hidden above the cupboards...

Thankfulness...

Things I'm thankful for....

Thankful that the Triune God loves me unconditionally!

Thankful for a country where I can worship my God as I please!

Thankful for my husband.  He is truly my better half!

Thankful for my children.  Even if they sometimes give me grief and pick on my cooking or hearing. 

Thankful for a beautiful grandchild who loves me even though he's vomiting via his nose...

 *he's sick right now...and last night's vomiting incident was surprising!*

Thankful for a place to call home.  We've turned this beautiful home into a nice fixer-upper!

Thankful for jobs and the employers who understand us and care about us.

Thankful I can work from home.

Thankful for a deep cleaned/baby proofed living room

Thankful that my SIL can babysit a little today!

and last but not least...

Thankful for you, my imaginary friends!  Thanks for letting me unload and vent to you throughout the rest of the year!  I guess without posting my thoughts and gripes online like this, I'd probably go just a wee bit more crazier than I already am.  Yes, it could be worse!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

Talk at you on Monday!

And You'll Be Thankful!!!

You know when Murphy's law kicks in and you really need to struggle to find the silver lining in things?  I've got one of those nights and days today...  So with the help of God, I'm going to make it through this day and hopefully to a good nights sleep...

Oh and for those of you, even those that didn't voice it here or on FB or to my face...  I really WASN'T being mean to Ryan yesterday in the video!  Truly!  He loves Beauty and the Beast and used to say the narration part along with the narrator when he'd watch it!  As a toddler, he wouldn't even eat dinner unless it was on...

Although while watching the video yesterday, he did mention that for a while he was confused.  He was trying to get the photos to match what was being said.  "Repulsed by her haggard appearance" and my face showed up only made him think I'd planned it all out.

Not so!  But he did find someone to love him before his 21st birthday, so that was pretty cool!

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1) Thankful that Ryan took the video in the way it was intended! 

2) Thankful that I got 6 hours of sleep!  *Leon had a LOT of trouble staying sleep and Tiff needed me around 2:30am.  I ended up sleeping on the big butt chair with him for a couple hours.

3) Thankful that we have fans stowed in the garage when the air conditioner broke late yesterday! *The house was 80 degrees when we went to bed...

4) Thankful that the air conditioner turned on this morning!!!!  Cold air is actually BLOWING out of the vents this morning!  *I guess the system just needed a night off.

5) Thankful that Meri got up early to help out with Leon before I came to work.

6) Thankful that Tiffany has the right meds to get better.  *She came down with strep...

7) Thankful for the fun birthday meal for Ryan last night!  *Pictures are on the camera that Maddy took to work today...

8) Thankful for an ice pack on my ankle. It feels GOOD although I have no idea what I did to it.

9) Thankful that Robb got a good nights sleep and hope it helps him feel better soon.

10) Thankful that Leon is home and *mostly* well again and that it doesn't hurt him anymore to pick him up!

I just wish he & I weren't so sweaty...

Update: He's back in the hospital...

Dang.