I am so very grateful:

For 64 ounces of water down, 64 more to go 

For a Grandparents day phone call from Anissa and Andrae

For the fact that I am still wearing the same pairs of tennis shoes/dress shoes/work shoes…four years later

That Reilly was excited about her first day of pre-school

For a clean refrigerator

For Readers Digest and Guideposts magazines (sigh…I miss Mom)

For another great weekend with my family

For beautiful, cool days to enjoy outside – sitting on the patio on a Sunday morning after church, and working in the backyard on some landscaping and trimming trees

For a fire on the patio on Sunday evening, even if it didn’t include hotdogs and s’mores

For a dominoes game with Dad, Dwight, and Sam

For tiled ceiling above the kitchen sink finally done – thank you, Dwight and Sam

For a waitress who remembers our orders and does her job well

For leftover barbecue

For clean sheets that smell and feel so good

For bananagrams and appletters games with my sister and brother (sigh…I miss Mom)

For the privilege of speaking to my daughter many times in a week – you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone, and I never want to take those calls/text messages for granted again

For really nice toilet paper

For a phone call from my Dad, letting me know he made it home and wanting to know the score of the ballgame

For the Sunday comics that were always pulled out, folded up, and chuckled at (sigh…I miss Mom)

For an absence of mosquito bites, which is not right now

For William’s happiness last night (he’s the receipt checker at the exit of Sam’s Club, an elderly man who always seems so unhappy and grumpy, but I think he really likes Sam and is finally warming up, and he’s really a pretty sweet guy underneath that mad/sad frown)

For cream cheese. (sigh…I miss Mom)