Thankful Thrusday: Week #23

~ Fireworks

~ Wheat crackers

~ Library summer reading program

~ My baby's first steps

~ Create TV

~ Coconut oil

~ Favorite authors

Thankful Thrusday: Week #22

~ Wool diaper covers (for those rash prone baby bums)

~ Brown paper bags (used to make a pattern)

~ High Fructose corn syrup free options (ketchup!)

~ Flat Rock Creek to play in with little babies (pictures to come)

~ Free yard sticks from the county fair

~ Pro-life bumper stickers (county fair again)

~ Fly strips (so gross but so helpful)

Thankful Thursday: Week #21

~ Four wonderful years with my high school sweetheart

~ Old videos that remind me of my childhood (Disney sing along songs found at Goodwill for $1, one that my Grandma owned)

~ Silly little girls

~ Children's laughter in a restaurant (it can bug other people if they like, but I enjoy hearing it!)

~ Good books. There are so many of them!

~ God's amazing grace

~ Hope

Thankful Thursday: Week #20

~ Iced mint tea

~ NBC Nightly News

~ Babies who are growing fast! (This one is very hard to be thankful for sometimes!)

~ Soft baby hair

~ teething tablets (all natural ones)

~ naps, no matter how short

~ take out pizza, because sometimes, I just don't feel like cooking!

Thankful Thursday: Week #19

~ A full parking lot at the library on a Monday afternoon

~ Time of fellowship with other home birthing families

~ the first blooms on our tomato plants

~ That my poor babies Fifth's diease rash is going away

~ Spray bottles of all sizes

~ Mid day thunderstorms

~ Meeting new, like-minded friends!

Thankful Thursday: Week #18

~ State parks

~ Nice doctors who don't push too much, even when they don't particularly agree with one (or more) of your parenting choices.

~ Scrap paper

~ Nature's beautiful bounty

~ The daisies and day lilies starting to bloom. Summer's almost here!

~ Tongue depressors that entertain a fussy baby while the doctor looks them over

~ Good books!

Thankful Thursday: Week #17

~ Free things on the curb. (Item in mention is a working, in nearly perfect condition, gliding footstool for my glider rocker.)

~ All the military men and women who have so bravely given their service and sometimes their lives for our country.

~ The families of those men and women who serve for their sacrifice.

~ The American flag, a symbol of all the lives given and all the battles fought for our freedom.

~ Cool showers after hot days.

~ The La Leche League

~ Kitchen timers

Thankful Thrusday: Week #16

~ Cookouts with family

~ A church full of praising voices

~ Busy days

~ Running water

~ The library and all it's resources

~ Documentaries

~ Fans on hot days when I refuse to turn on the A/C

Thankful Thursday: Week #15

~ Purny baby feet after a bath

~ Meals that bring back fond memories of lost loved ones. (Swedish meatballs and butterscotch pie this week. I miss you Grandma!)

~ Going to a yard sale and buying a cast iron skillet for a dollar

~ Kombucha that turns out perfectly (google it!) :o)

~ Heirloom tomato plants (got all of ours planted!)

~ Baby teeth! ("L" got her first two teeth in 3 days! And she hasn't been super grumpy!)

~Productive mornings

Thankful Thursday: Week #14

~Baby yawns. Sooo cute!

~Piles of fresh, clean, folded cloth diapers that smell of sun shine and spring breezes.

~One pan/pot meals

~Bath toys

~Morning cuddles with a sweet little baby

~Banana, yogurt and peanut butter "milk shakes"

~White school glue

Thankful Thursday: Week #13

~ Library books

~ Snoods

~ Big, beautiful families to gain knowledge and encouragement from

~ Nursing bracelets

~ Wind chimes

~ Thunderstorms

~ Babies that sleep right through thunderstorms

Thankful Thursday: Week #12

~ my bread machine

~ midwives who will continue to answer your questions long after your baby is born

~ hot tea on cool mornings

~ random things that a baby will play with for hours (ie: plastic leg off an old laundry hamper, small pack of unopened baby wipes, unopened cross stitch kit, ect.)

~ Interchangeable knitting needle sets

~ bendable wire clothes hangers with 100's of uses

~ extended rear-facing car seats

Thankful Thursday: Week #11

~ Dried beans- they are cheap, easy to make and ever so tasty!

~ My new tea pot. It whistles! :o)

~ Movie night with my hubby.

~ Early morning showers.

~ Old tin cans (perfect for growing herbs in)

~ Inner peace, no matter how rare.

~Bamboo knitting needles

Thankful Thursday: Week #10

~ Whisks

~ Old (but still good) books

~ really nice sales associates

~ a good nights sleep

~my wrap sling

~hot showers

~ bananas

Thankful Thursday: Week #9

~ Random parks found on long car rides to somewhere else

~ Family joining together for holidays

~ My parents

~ The prayer before a BIG holiday meal

~ Old dresses on new babies

~A church full of little ones dressed to the "nines"

~hiding Easter eggs (I think this is more fun than hunting them as a kid!)

Thankful Thursday: Week#8

~Rubber duckies

~Non-stick pans

~Rice socks

~String and all it's many uses

~Knowing that we aren't "stuck" on this earth forever.

~Tears of joy

~The ability to learn something new each and every day.

Thankful Thursday: Week #7

~ Super strong seeds! (My mother-in-law gave me some flower seeds from 1997 and they actually came up!)

~Stain Remover that works! (If not for this, my child would not have anything to wear that wasn't stained.)

~Goats milk (fresh from a local farmer and raw)! (Finally, something that doesn't cause an allergic reaction in her and that I still like the taste of!)

~Books on Frugality

~Honest car salesmen. Yes, you can still find them on occasion.

~Spring rains, even if they do make it cooler outside.

~The Easter lilies and crocuses in bloom.

Thankful Thursday: Week #6

~Quiet times when you can hear the birds chirping.

~Flea Markets

~Sweet little slobbery hands that want to touch your face.

~Packets of seeds that say "Guaranteed to Grow" and "Organic"

~The Bible on CD

~Lemonade

~Bulb nose suckers (don't laugh! They are useful!) :o)

Thankful Thursday: Week #5

~Rotary fabric cutters (even if I have cut myself a buch of times with it)

~Index cards

~Remotes (I remember a time when, as a child, I was the remote.) :o)

~Answered prayers

~Mint chocolate chip ice cream

~Bookmooch

~Friends from High school that have stayed close through the years

Thankful Thursday: Week #4

~Chocolate Chips

~Chocolate cake

~Chocolate Kisses

~Chocolate covered doughnuts

~Chocolate milk

~Chocolate covered pretzels

~Chocolate anything! :o)