What I'm Thankful For

Hello there my friends!  It's good to finally be writing after so long of an absence.  I have been busy, what's new right?  Owning a home is a wonderful thing.  We will never be bored ever again in our lives.  Each night when my husband gets home from work, we are working on one thing or another.  Saturdays are full of yardwork, remodeling, or installing something here or there.  But we are loving it.  Our home is finally feeling like ours, and I'm finally able to say that I love our home.  It takes a while to convince me, probably because we've moved nearly 10 times in 3 years.  And we're done with that. Yay.

Last week, Cheri over at I am Momma Hear Me Roar challenged us to write a list of 50 things we're thankful for.  So, here we go!
1. Tall socks in the winter
2.  Our wood burning stove (that's one of our projects...finally done!)
3. The Internet
4. My Husband.  He is wonderful, and he treats me like a queen.
5.  Color
6. my Ipod touch
7. My Bernina 1008
8. Food to enjoy and experiment with while cooking
9. Weddings
10.  Cherie Call Music...still listening after nearly 10 years.  She's good!
11. Toenail Polish that changes colors in the sunlight.
12. Manlifts (to help with pruning our GINORMOUS trees)
13. Cell Phones
14. Target's cheap $5.00 tights in brown and black
15. Fabric
16. My Home
17. Little Tender Mercies that happen every day
18. Blenders
19. Bacon
20. Pepperoni
21. CHEESE
22. Children
23.  My Education.  I know I can use it if I ever need to. :)
24. My Craft room. (It's pretty much done...I need to snap a picture or two don't I?)
25. Good Neighbors
26. The Book of Mormon
27. Temples
28. The Prophet
29. Music
30. Jesus Christ
31. Christmas
32.  Thanksgiving
33. Emotions and feelings
34.  The ability to write
35.  Good Books
36. Emails from friends
37.  Letters
38. My Family (on all sides!)
39. Purple
40. Laughter
41. Candy
42. Bathrooms
43. My pillow
44. My Curly Hair (so easy to do.)
45.  My Toyota Corolla aka Crayola
46. Heavenly Father and His perfect timing
47. My body
48. Seasons
49. My husband's job
50. Long Walks around the neighborhood.

If you haven't done this in awhile, you should try it.  Put on a favorite song or two, and just write what comes to your mind first.  My day was beginning to be boring and blah, but after writing the list, it made me remember all the things I have. :)  What a good thing.  And now,  I think I'll head out for my walk.  I think the sun is trying to peek out behind the clouds! :)  Have a wonderful thanksgiving everybody!
~Lynette~
p.s. What are YOU thankful for this year?

Thankful Thursday

Wow, it's already been a week since my last post?  Ooops, no crafting to show for it!  Well, we'll see what we can do about that. 

This Thankful Thursday I am thankful for books.  I LOVE to read.  Reading has kept me sane this semester.

The past week or so, I haven't had any books to read!  The library books I've got on hold haven't come in yet!  I didn't realize how calming reading is for me until I didn't have a good novel to read.  I love clean (namely written by Anita Stansfield, Rachel Ann Nunes, or Michele Ashman Bell) romance novels, but I'm starting to branch out to new types because I've read all the good ones (sometimes twice)!  

If any of you have books you're thankful for, give me some ideas of what I can start to read!

Thankful Thursday

This Thankful Thursday, I am thankful for laughter.  I have had a long and hard week with school, and with keeping up with everything (groceries, laundry, cleaning, ya know...the normal stuff that you just LOVE to do).  We bought Laffy Taffies after Halloween for way cheap, and have been enjoying the jokes on the wrappers.  Here's my favorite so far!

"Why don't monsters eat clowns?"

"Because they taste funny!"

I must have just been a laughter-needing mood, because I laughed like it was the funniest thing I've ever read!  Hope you enjoyed it too!

What are YOU Thankful For this Thursday?

Thankful Thursday

Since Thanksgiving is just around the corner, I want to spend Thursdays blogging about something I'm thankful for.  I love this season, and I'm so excited to share some of my 'favorite things,' with you.  This Thankful Thursday, I am thankful for my ability write.  I have always loved writing, and sometimes I just get the urge to write about ANYTHING.  Whether it's my joy, my frustrations, my ideas, or my imaginations, I just love to get them on paper.  This past few months, I have loved typing.  I even love to write papers (kinda insane, I know!).  I just love writing!  It may never make a difference in the world, and hey, I know I can count the number of readers of this blog on one hand, but it doesn't even matter to me!  I'm writing.
I was once taught in a 10th grade english class that sometimes the best writing is done in journals, and I tend to agree.  Sometimes when you are so involved in your own feelings, you can describe them better than anything else.  YOU know what to say, because YOU are what you're writing about.  I love writing in journals.  When I was in high school, I would write nearly everyday, and have about 15 journals full from my high school days.  It's funny to read back about all the boys I liked, the days that were tough, and the funny things I liked, but it's a part of me.  Sometimes to know who you are, you have to know who you've been, and reading back does that for me.
Well, that's it for today's Thankful Thursday!  I hope you have a great one!