thanks

i started this last week off at the emergency room.  with a child, not my own.  it was one of those flukey but life changing days for me.  after he was safe in the arms of his momma and i was on my way back to the sweet sleeping boys at home, i kind of lost it.  do you know that there are people in your life who would drop everything and run if you asked?  i know that, but i didn't know that.  and now i am really aware of those people.  how amazingly vulnerable you have to be to ask for help.  especially when you are sure you should be in control.   life is really short.  too short to be wasted.  and just long enough to be gracious, to feel grace and relish in all the the things we have to be thankful for.  and those wonky shouldn't have happened moments, sadly, give clarity.

this is what we chose to do to honor others and give thanks this season (i love that my kiddos are finally old enough to really appreciate doing these things).  we gave away groceries and turkeys.  we baked pies as a family and hauled them to neighbors in the little red wagon.  we embraced family and shared our thanks.  we gave our toys and saw santa blown in by the north wind.  we had girls night.  we had date night.  we did puzzles.  we mailed letters to almost every quarterback in the nfl.  and walked to the post office that many times.  we ate pizza.  did puzzles.  we had a birthday.  and playdates.  and each one of those events from tragedy to pure joy,  gave me an enormous dose of perspective. 

i am so thankful for the kindness of strangers,  and thankful for the kindness of good, good friends, thankful for our bounty, thankful for neighbors, thankful for family, thankful for health, thankful for a husband who makes an amazing daddy, and thankful for those two boys snitching out of the sugar jar.

my cup runneth over...