I am grateful for: #8 & #9

For a girly girl that asks to have her hair curled on Sunday mornings.  And that loves to pose after having her hair done!  She is so yummy!

Mr. Finn's job that provides this little guy with toys of unmeasurable pleasure.

Thank you Hon for sticking it out when you are tired and want to be at home with us.  We miss you and love you.  Lots of prayers going your way every day that you will return to us safely...

... On Friday afternoon!

I am grateful for: #7

I am grateful to have another project done in our home.  I have had this overwhelming urge/drive to get things done.  Every morning I wake up between 5 and 6 a.m. with a clear mind as to what I should accomplish that day.  There are many reasons that this is strange for me: 1.  I am not a morning person and prefer to sleep until 9.  2.  I don't usually decide what I am doing until I know how much energy I have.  And,  3.  I space out my projects so I don't get burned out.  Especially since I have been doing other projects intermittently while doing my own and I am pretty tired.

I am glad they are done though and so for the month of December I will have plenty of time to get those Christmas cards mailed out this year.  Sorry to all of you last year that waited for ours to appear in your mailbox.  I didn't have the energy to even address an envelope, but just think of all the ones I will be sending this year!

I am grateful for: #6

I love the Relief Society Sisters.  I have always loved being part of this group of women, my sisters.  Today showed me just how important the society is for us as Latter Day Saint Women.  Miss Boo was completely awful in Sacrament Meeting which was running late due to testimony bearing.  I finally couldn't take anymore and grabbed her under my arm and hauled her outside, all the while she was yelling "PUT ME DOWN!" which I really didn't hear through the pounding in my head of my blood pressure rising.  As I hit the doors to take her outside, Sister Geddes showed up behind us (they were sitting behind us) and said to go back in she would take her so I could enjoy the rest of the meetings today.

Such relief and guilt flooded over me as she walked off with my child glaring at me.  Yet I felt peace.  This is what the sisterhood of the church is all about.  Seeing the need in another and filling that need without being asked.  I am grateful for our Heavenly Father and this Church that fulfills the needs of women and gives them the support they need.

I am so grateful for Relief Society.

I am grateful for: #5

For Friends, without them I would be lost in so many ways.  Everywhere I have lived I have been blessed with just the right friends for me.  I give thanks today for all of them out there.  You know who you are and I can't imagine my life without you in it.

I am grateful for: #4

The miracle of life and a loving Heavenly Father that promised

me the joy of bringing these two into my life.