Good Times

I feel like i spend a lot of time on this blog whining. Sure my sons are a challenge but i am positive everyone's kids give them a run for their money. Mischief is our middle name here so that is why it gets included so much. Besides, it makes it funnier if i try to blog about it. Sometimes it takes too much energy to be mad.

The month of november tends to get overlooked so last year i started a new tradition.
I do a thanks box.
I text everyone who we are doing thanksgiving dinner with every day of the month and ask what they are thankful for--no explanations needed. Then i write all the individual answers on paper, put in a book and bring it to thanksgiving dinner. I love it last year and looked forward to it all year.

I think it is so helpful to work on being thankful. I find at the beginning of the month sometimes it is hard to come up with things i am grateful for but at this point in the month i have so many things-specific things i am thankful for that it makes me smile and leads into celebrating the gift and birth of the Lord Jesus Christ perfectly.

I love thanksgiving.

Thanks Ya'll

To anyone who has ever read/posted on a blog:

i just want to say it is a pleasure to read other people's blogs. i am not the best at making comments (i do try) on your blogs but i love to read what ya'll have to say. sometimes when i read what i have blogged i blush because i write a novel every time and honestly, some of my stuff just isn't that interesting
however
something occurs to me...no matter what someone else writes, it is always interesting because other people are interesting. (don't argue with me on this, you all know it is true:))

so in lieu of that information THANK YOU for sharing your stories with me (even though you don't really intend me as the audience ;)).

and thank you for inspiring me to be the better version of myself.

jill