Sometimes late at night I lay awake and think of all the things I'm grateful for. It helps pass the time and it reminds me that no matter how bad my hips are aching and my back is throbbing, and that I have to go to the bathroom, again, that there are so many things in my life to be grateful for.
I'm grateful for the security I have had these past eight years, there's always been food on the table, a roof over my head, a steady income, and a little money that's put away for our rainy day. I'm tremendously glad that my family and I have been so blessed this way.
I'm grateful for my husbands job and the numerous blessing it brings into our lives. It allows for me to stay home with the kids, it provides wonderful health insurance, and they have been so good to Mr. Giovannoni.
I'm grateful for my husbands work ethic. Sometimes I pout a little about how much Mr. Giovannoni devotes to his job, but in the end I think they know he's worth keeping around and I'm proud that he gives them his best.
I'm grateful that so far in my life I've been spared from suffering and tragedy. I listen and read the news and there's lots of terrible things going on in this scary old world, and I'm glad, oh so glad that my life is as easy as it is!
I'm grateful for Love. Mr. Giovannoni and I just celebrated eight years of marriage. And while our love certainly doesn't fit the fairy tale image of what love is, it is something to celebrate just the same.
I'm grateful for my children. There have been plenty of nights I've cried myself silly, and worried excessively, over what they say and do, or the situations they may have to face as they grow older. There have been times when I wonder what on earth I was thinking when I chose to become a mother, but the love I feel for them and the joy they bring me overrides all my fears and concerns.
I'm grateful for the little green shoots that are emerging in my front flower bed, it means soon my world will be blooming and the sun will be shining. I cannot wait to sit outside and soak up some sun and look at all the lovely things spring and summer will bring.
I'm grateful for friends and family that humor me lately, especially when I'm obsessed with talking about every ache and pain and twist and turn this latest pregnancy has brought.
I'm super grateful for my carpet scrubber. Miss Alivia has made it her personal agenda to have as many accidents in as many rooms as possible. I'm glad I can just go to the closet and pull out the carpet scrubber!
Last but not least, I been tremendously grateful for the last six months Mr. Giovannoni and I have had with no neighbors. Don't get me wrong I love my neighbors, but when you share paper thin walls and everything you say and do is heard. It's nice to have had the opportunity to let our hair down and just be ourselves with out the fear of what the neighbors think. It's going to be hard to have to go back to being ultra quiet and thoughtful, especially with three kids, but for now I'll just be glad we've had these last six months to our selves where my kids could scream and yell and jump around as much as they wanted to and I could slip in a bad word or two, or just let my kids fight it out and not fear that I'd be the talk of the town.
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