Thankfulness...

Yes, the Holidays are going to be much different for us this year.  Hardly a day goes by where I don't get a little teary eyed just hearing the sound of Graham's little laugh or seeing his little eyes light up when he sees something he has never seen before.  There is no way to even begin to describe the amount of gratitude in our hearts but here are just a few things that come to mind:

1. The weekend dance! (it was a huge thing to start school for a little fella that has been through so many changes in just a few months - so we made up this little dance that we do on Fridays to signify that it is the weekend and there is no school tomorrow) "Yeah the weekend dance"!!

2.  The blessing - "God our Father, 
                            God our Father,  
                            We thank you, 
                            We thank you! 
                            For our many blessings,
                            For our many blessings,
                            Amen, Amen"

3. Bedtime conversations:  Laying down at night and almost drifting off to sleep he leans over in my face to whisper
"Mom... Mom,  Wha doing?"  And trying not to crack up laughing - I say: "Shhhh! I'm going to sleep, close your eyes!"  but  "Mom...  Mom! I love you!"    Dad... Dad! Wha doing?  

4.  Knuckle punches and high fives!

5.  Superman, Spider-man,  Iron-man, Captain America, Buzz Light-year, and Woody or basically any super-hero that saves us from any bad guy or evil doer!

6. The Negotiator - it doesn't matter what we are doing, whether it is time to take a bath, or put up the ipad, picking out clothes, we are negotiating.  "1 minute; no! 2 minutes or 10 minutes"!  or in 10 minutes we are going to take a "2 minute bath"!  Good times!!

7. Silly songs - Of course you have the standards "the ABC song" and or "Twinkle twinkle little star" but my favorites are the random made up ones.  So you never know when a song might break out and it could be about anything? It may be about a "frisbee" and the only lyric is the word "frisbee"!  

Kevin and I have always loved family. We absolutely love spending time with our families and treasure every moment.  I think now we pause and soak a little more in every sweet new memory. God is so incredibly good and always on time.


Happy Thanksgiving!!