Yes, I'm behind on the thanks

The headache and stuffiness have just gotten to me and I've been incredibly worn out from it.  Added to that is the sheer business of the last few days.

But, some thanks--I am thankful for my overall good health. My friend T. and I have been helping a disabled couple (she more than I) and life is a struggle for them.  I need to be thankful that I and my family are healthy.

I am thankful that the snow we got was only minor.  

I am thankful for my oven--especially since I am cooking a turkey for church tonight.  My old oven never did cook a turkey well.  Lousy.  Well, it never fully cooked turkey.  But my new one seems to be doing just fine.   You cannot imagine how nervous I am about doing this considering the disasters I have had in the past.

Now, a story.  

We have two pups. One pup is waiting to go home still.  She has just a few days with us left.  She is truly a princess and we think that her new owners should name her Cinderella or Belle or Jasmine or Ariel.  She prances.  She doesn't dirty her feet or stoop to going outside for longer than necessary.  She would prefer being held over walking.  Oh, they are going to have fun.

Lugnut.  Yes, what a dog.  He's a character to say the least.  Sammy came to my door and whined at me until I got up to see what she needed.  Lugnut was happily emptying Mike's trash.  Good girl, Sammy. You tell on that pup!  He is going to be quite a dog.  I can see many hours of laughs because of him; I can also see many years of tears.  We have already had him x-rayed to find out what he was choking on.  

Giving more thanks

When we dropped the last two puppies off at the pet shop, the kids expressed hope that they would go to the same home.  I told them to pray that this would happen.

I got an email from the shop this evening informing me that my very attached-to-each-other puppies did indeed go to the same home.  That made for some very happy children (and a very happy me, too.)

Giving thanks

Our trip to the pet shop was relatively painless.  Lego and Sparkles will likely have amazing homes pretty soon.  They got a clean bill of health from the vet working with the pet shop.  That's good because all I wanted was to have these little (or not so little) guys to be happy and healthy when it was time to send them away.

Giving thanks on some days

On some days, giving thanks can be very hard.  Sometimes it is that we have been so busy we haven't had time to stop and think about our blessings.  I suppose on those days we need to be thankful for the strength we had to do all that had to be done.

Some days we have so many hard things come at us that finding reasons to be thankful are very hard.  Today, I think I can only be thankful that God is good.  His power comes when I am too weak to handle that which comes or too stupid to understand what I am supposed to do with what comes.  He gets me through the day.

Today's thanks, a little late

I'm thankful that my kids are old enough now to help with dinner when I am not feeling well or when I have to get Mike to tkd early (every Friday.)  That takes a lot of pressure off.

And the thanks goes on

Today I am thankful for God's thoughts toward me.

Jeremiah 29:11 says, "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."

He hasn't promised me easy days, but He has promised that He thinks of my end.  I may be tried, He is making me into the image of Christ.  How bad can that be? 

Thankful for...

I am thankful for left turn lights that flash yellow now.  We didn't always have those, although many of us thought it was a good idea.  We could sit at a red left turn light with no oncoming traffic and think, "Well, I could have turned 35 times by now."  Now, we have them.  They are wonderful little things.