I Am Grateful For…

• Life, both my own and the life yet to be

• Trying, failing, and trying some more

• Love—deep, rooted love

• Hope that allows me to face each new day with a smile on my face and hope in my heart

• Mine and my husband’s random sense of humor—it helps us to keep reaching for our goal

• Passion
  

• SmartBoards—so I don’t have to smell the nauseating odor of dry erase markers

• Being ok with the fact that my favorite blue shirt now has a black marker line down the side

• Being able to blame the marker line on kids…when really it was due to my own absentmindedness!

• The ability to think as an individual—questioning mandates that just don’t “feel right”

• The ability to “question authority” (from the comfort of my living room)

• Amazing compliments from the “higher-ups” that validate my decisions

• Great neighbors—on both sides

• Oyster roasts around a campfire even though I don’t like oysters

• The warming, radiating heat of a fire on a chilly autumn night

• No longer being the only person shivering when it is 65 degrees outside

• God's plan--while I may not always understand it, I love the life with which God has blessed me
  

...For That I Am Grateful