Yesterday was one of those days that sticks with you.
When I woke up, I got on the computer to see what my fellow bloggers were up to. The Smith family had the most beautiful post and I cried as I read it. What a gift Hayden and Cooper had given the family. I thanked God for giving us the Gift of friendship. I was just Plain Thankful and that is priceless.
Thankfulnes is like the 
saying. "Pirceless"
My morning fell into place and it was as though time had stretched. I got to visit with someone I used to do Taekwondo with while I got my snow tires on. I found a couple of things for Christmas, and then headed to my Grandmother's to give her a squeeze and tell her I love her. I am 42 and still have a Grandmother. She love me and she loves the Lord. I am so Blessed to help take care of her.
Visiting with your beautiful Grandmother, priceless.
I then was able to find the game I was looking for. We need it to teach the family this weekend. I got the last one!! Thankful again, priceless!!
I pulled up to my mom's work while I was downtown to say Hi! I have a loving mother, Thankful again, Priceless!!
Found Hanna the sweats she needed, last pair. only had to look at one store today. Saved on gas, and time. Thankful. Priceless
My next stop and with lots of time left it seemed, "The Mead food bank". I had sent in a donation for Dairy and I sent it to the wrong address. I got it back and I drove it in. As I pulled up I saw my Brothers friend and his two boys unloading their car (the wife is one of my blog friends). As I gave the donation, I was given the best hug. Thankful. Dick who helps run the food bank told us of the great need they are having and as I type this I could cry as I think of the two beautiful Bacon boys unloading the food that would make full thanksgiving dinners for several families. I told them that they rock!! What a wonderful thing their parents are teaching them. It is better to give than to receive. I was blessed by the whole thing. Just when I thought It couldn't get any better. Dick said open the freezer, I did and I could not believe what I saw. Turkeys!! lots of them. Dick said my brothers family had brought them the night before. Standing there in the food bank, knowing the need, seeing the love in the eyes of the Bacon boys and knowing my brothers kids had that same love in there eyes as they gave to others with out wanting anything in return was something to truly give thanks for. PRICELESS.
Went home to take care of Dakota, there is always one thing that is off it seems. Dakota spent a little time outside and as dogs do he found some poop and got it all over his cone. I got to clean him up. The laugh I had as I was doing it was still priceless. I thought to myself, the roll as a mom is so diverse but I wouldn't change a thing. I am a mom, I am blessed to stay at home and care for my family. Who thought there was a bright side to a dog-poop covered cone head. Priceless.
I talked to both my mother in Law and my Step mom both one after the other and funny we were all feeling the same thing. It is time to go back to the real meaning of Christmas, to give and not receive. They each wanted to do gifts to the food bank rather then give gifts to one another for Christmas. I was fine with that!! They also said they were cutting back on the Grand kid gifts. One each and then doing something for some one else instead. I was Thankful because sometimes I think my kids have so much and there is so many others that don't. Both my Step Mom, Paula and Carol, my mother -in -law, said almost the same thing. It was a blessing to hear others want to make a difference. Wow! Priceless!
Off to pick up Hanna for her Dr.'s appointment on her back. She was headache free for the first time sense the freak accident. Thank you Lord for the Doctors, our insurance, and for healing. Again my Thankfulness was Priceless.
The afternoon was filled with laughs and funny mishaps with Hanna as we picked up the pies she sold for Softball and got them delivered. We grabbed a quick bite and ran into some friends. Then it was off to Target to get her stuff for her twin costume.
Hanna has a great attitude. She got her wires crossed with her friends and told them she wouldn't be at school for twin day. This meant that she didn't plan anything with her buddies and then last night it was to late to get a hold off the same costume stuff. Hanna said it's okay. I'll go as twin with my baby doll. I don't care. Thankfulness!!!!!! at 13 that could have been ugly. She looks so cute as she is heading out. A evening and morning of a teenager with a great attitude. Priceless!!
After we got home I found Scott and Tanner talking about something serious to Tanner. He had heard of someone in need. Tanner was moved to help, he had prayed and felt he should give some of the money he made working over the summer. He didn't want us to help, he wanted to do it on his own and it was between him and God. As he told us what he wanted to do I was moved my his loving heart. He was obedient to God and was really looking for us to treat him like a man and let him make the choice of what to do. I stood as he talked and again my eyes filled with tear drops of Joy.(2nd time for that Day I held it together at he food bank) My boy was really becoming a man after God's heart and I couldn't be prouder of him. I gave him a kiss and told him I was proud of him. Thankfulness, Priceless!!!!!
Tanner also shared with me that his friend Jeremy was in the hospital with a 104 temp. Hanna and I prayed for him and gave Thanks for Tanner's heart. I spoke to Bobbie, Jeremy's mom and told her to call and keep us up to date. I gave thanks when she called and said the test were good and there would be no spinal tap. Can you say THANKFUL. again PRICELESS.
After 11 while laying in bed and saying my prayers, a text came and I thought it was Bobbie with news on Jeremy. I was wrong, it was Jeremy. He wanted to text me. We texted back and forth, I was trying to keep my phone quite and I was tucked under the covers so I wouldn't bug Scott. What a blessing. I got to have that little interaction with one of Tanner's friends. I love his buddies and sometimes I even hear them call me mom. It blesses me to be a part of a child's life. At Jeremy's age it can be hard to connect. For that moment I had a connection. Again Thankful and losing a little sleep to make a connection with a teen, Priceless. What a picture it must have been, me under the covers, sneaking like a kid who is doing something wrong.
The scripture has come up to me many times to widen my tent stakes and be a mother to many. I am thankful any time that happens. It is priceless to love a child.
As Jeremy and I text good night I laid there in bed listening to the sound of Scott breathing, not snoring, Priceless. Guess what? I cried and gave thanks for all the little things and the big things in my life. For all that had happened during the day and for the wonderful man God had blessed me with. I gave thanks for my family, the fact that I can stay at home, my Grandmother, friends, my church, the kid's school, the acts of kindness I had seen that day by the Bacon's and the act of kindness by my brother and his family.
God is great. Be thankful. It is Priceless.
Happy thanksgiving.
Today our dog (3rd Child) Dakota had a long surgery. The Doctor fixed the eye lid on his right eye and now he is not at the risk of having his eye rupture. His other eye didn't go so well. The tumor that was on the outside of his eye has spread inside and was to big to get the whole thing because he couldn't be keep under any longer. I am mad at the vet we have been seeing for years and thankful that we took him to this new vet. I know the vet is not God and can not control everything but we had Dakota in for the growth before and they said it was a cyst, not to worry and they drained it. 
