Christmas Thanks

It's been a long and chaotic week, but brimming full of blessings.
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• Last dreary dark day of winter ending. Hope in the sun shining longer each day.
• Making Christmas cookies each evening this week.
• Epecially the chocolate and pecan dipped short breads
• Someone in the neighborhood practicing Christmas carols on trumpet? french horn?
• Dreams still coming true
• Dinners made with random leftover
• Reading Little House on the Prairie aloud to the girls
• Bronwyn handing me Little House to read after lunch
• Both girls putting their clean clothes up (it may be awhile before their drawers see folded laundry again. lol!)
• Aeralind retrieving books for me to put back on shelves
• Warm weather forecast for tomorrow
• Little girls staying up late with gas
• Late night time to doodle with crayons and toddlers on wrapping paper
• Going outside for a warm day without having to bundle babies
• Reading books while eating lunch
• Getting my Perrier Christmas letter-Love it!
• Sunshine!!!
• Bronwyn stalking my gratitude journal

• Bronwyn on the tabletop licking cookies
• Aerlind: Mud Princess

• My DSLR and the sweet husband who bought it for me in Feb 2009
• My sweet God who orchestrated my breaking my old point and shoot digital camera right before we found out there were 2 babies in me.  We never would have spent taht money on a DSLR had we know we were having two!
• My pediatrician not questioning delaying the MMR or Hep B.
• A Day of Chaco weather to clear out the winter drearies
• Plowing through a ton of catch-up posts on my new photography site.
• Going to bed early before a night with a lot of wake ups
• A mopped kitchen floor
• A husband who helped me mop
• Warm sunshine streaming in even when it is cold out
• A partial scholarship to the YMCA so I can swim laps whenever I want!
• Frozen meals
• Christmas crafting finished early
• Staining my paints before tossing in the last load of darks
• My ssiter arriving safe
• Sick babies waking up and playing with their Aunt Kay for awhile
•  Tears of frustration because of lack of sleep and whining babies: recognizing points of weakness
• Yummy Christmas breakfast with family
• The girls ripping open packages and hand out gifts

• The generosity of my family
• Stuffed mushrooms
• Relatively smooth transition to one nap
• Playing with Cozy Coups and Giant Waffle Blocks on the floor
• Christmas naps
• The first white Christmas in South Carolina in 45 years!!!
• Dad's famous Christmas meal.  
• Blueberry Cheesecake
• Sharing memoris with mom
• A teal Dress for me
• Little girls playing in the snow

• Sick babies sleeping in my bed
• Gift Cards
• A peaceful, restful Monday