So Thankful

I am just so thankful at this moment that I had to share it or I feel like I might burst open.

I am thankful for my husband (who is the most wonderful man on the planet) because he loves me and he shows me he loves me every day in every way - even when he doesn't know it.

I am thankful for my brother Jon who reminds me so much of a younger me - who loves me and appreciates me as more than just his sister who is 12 years older- but who shares with me as a friend.

I am thankful for Maggie because she brought me to a church I feel like I can belong to and because she supports me and helps lift me up - and because she's just such a beautiful person inside and out and I am lucky to know her.

I am thankful for Maggie's husband Kim for being so understanding at the beginning stages of Maggie's and my friendship - For not kicking me out of his house since I'm over there all the time - taking away from time with his wife.

I am thankful for Maggie's children because they give hugs and loan me books and call me Miss Murray... because they help heal my heart of its sadness at not having babies of my own.

I am thankful for RBC because being there feels like coming to God's home, sitting at His table, and being welcomed as if it were my own home.

I am thankful for Shepherd Group for giving me a place to meet new people in the same time of their lives going through the same struggles as my husband and I. I am thankful that they made us feel so welcome and that they really seem to get me and appreciate me for what I bring with me.

I am thankful for Bible Study and all the women in it not only for giving me an opportunity to learn from other women but for being so warm and accepting while doing it.

But most of all I am thankful to God because:

God brought me my husband when I wasn't looking.
God filled me with the need to build a relationship with my brother before it was too late.
God moved Maggie to ask if I wanted to be friends outside of book club.
God filled Kim with the worlds largest amount of patience.
God created children's ability to show love with free hugs.
God's Spirit allowed Maggie to ask me to accompany her to church and God's grace allowed me to be moved by that experience.

God filled me with a desire to serve Him and grow in my knowledge of Him and provided ways to use me so that His light could shine through me. And even though I am tarnished glass - I can still glow!

She works hard for the money!

Sorry... thought the song title was appropriate for today because I am working hard for the money. I was really busy all day! Now I'm on overtime - waiting for a delivery to be finished so I can forward the phones and clock out.

Once I get home, I get to continue to work hard - although, not for the money... for my hubby! I get to make spaghetti for lunches for the week while John makes dinner for tonight. After that I get to watch my shows and drink a glass of chocolate wine (it makes me so happy) and then go to bed.

I am so thankful I finished up the Bible Study for tomorrow already - because I really do want to just relax for a bit tonight.

So Tuesday - I work and then I go to Bible Study. Then Maggie and I are going back to my house to watch SYTYCD which has it's first Tuesday episode (I believe). Which we will Blog about while eating quesadillas (because that late at night, that's all I can eat)

Then Wednesday, I have to work - then stop at my moms and drop off her birthday present... (which I have to find time to buy between now and then!) What am I going to get my mom? The gift I had thought of I am now thinking maybe I shouldn't get - and so it's going to be all last minute gifting which is not my favorite way to do it, but I'm praying it'll all work out. Then I'm going to get home (hopefully early!) so that John and I can read over the chapter for Shepherd Group on Friday.

Thursday I get to babysit Julia and Joe! I'm very excited about it. I find that hanging out and getting hugs from really great kids reduces my immediate need to have a baby to a more tolerable level of want. Plus it lets me be goofy and silly - and I don't get to act that way nearly often enough.

Friday John and I get to go to Shepherd Group - and I get to take Kristen her BabyCake. I hope it brightens her day a little because I know that she's been having a really rough time lately - and I'd really like it to make her smile. Then afterwards we plan to go to IHOP for dinner - but the animal rights groups are calling for a boycott because of the eggs that they use - so now I feel guilty about that... I'll need to discuss it with John.

Saturday I'm going to sleep in!!!! That is, if we don't have anything going on. And then when I do get up I'm going to do my Bible Study for the next class.

Sunday - John and I are going to church and then when we get done we'll probably go to John's mom's house for a bit. They will watch the game and I will read Me and Mr. Darcy - which I probably shouldn't be reading instead of my book club book, but I really can't help it. Columbine is really depressing and hard to get through.

And then it'll start all over again next week. YAY!