Gratitude

This past week has been all about gratitude, and it almost makes me cringe to say I've been anything but grateful.  Here I am, in the midst of a beautiful life, and I've had to work today in trying to find things to be grateful for.  So I thought I'd put it all out there and see if jumping into an ice cold gratitude pool will jolt me awake.

Lazy Sundays

Working from home

Criminal Minds Marathons

Pictures

Texting

Facebook notifications

Taking my time cooking dinner (instead of the weeknight rush)

Baking cookies

Eating cookies :)

The satisfaction you get from doing 6 loads of laundry in a day.

Organizing for the week

Grocery shopping before the Sunday crowd

Having the day off of work

All three boys playing X-Box

Pajama days

Candles and the fire going all day

Sleepy dogs by the fire

Being lazy and productive at the same time.  Pro-lazy?

NAPS

Picking up a book I've been wanting to read for a while

The calm before the storm...

And that was literally just for today.  So often, we walk around in denial, not even trying to own our good stuff.  The blinders we have on are blocking from our view and creating unnecessary drama in our lives.  

Life is not perfect.  

We are not perfect.

The people in our lives are not perfect.

But I also believe that our lives are a perfect combination of our choices and divine intervention.  The stuff that annoys us the most are also our biggest life lessons.  I really believe we're supposed to learn from all the junk in our lives, and figure out a way to be thankful for everything... good, bad, and ugly.  

*Big sigh*

Now doesn't that feel better?  It's definitely more of a challenge to jump into the pool, but once you do, it really is quite refreshing.  It's amazing how often we over look the simplest things, but it's those things that make our lives so much better.

Now, before tonight is over, jump into your own gratitude pool and see what you can come up with.

Happy Sunday...