Happy Thanksgiving

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
1 Thessalonians 5:18

An Incomplete but Nonetheless Thorough

List of things (in no particular order) that I am thankful for this year:

A - America's Armed Forces, art, air conditioning, aunts, alone time, good advice
B - Bible, brother, books, babies, blogs, baking, bubbles, bridges
C - Children, cookies, chocolate, cousins, cake, creativity, choir, cocoa, cosmetics
D - Dad, daughters, dreams, dairy products, delight, easy decisions, doctors
E - Energy, education, electricity, England, elephants (just because)
F - Faith, family, friends, fun times, fluffy clouds, flying, the future, fruit
G - Grace, grandparents, gentleness, generosity, growing, gifts
H - Harmony, Home, honesty, houses, humor, hot water, holidays, hugs, history, hot showers
I - Intelligence, ice cream, the Internet, irony
J - Journeys, joy, juice, jewelry, jets, juice glasses, inside jokes
K - Knowledge, kissing, knights in shining armor, enchanted kingdoms
L - Love, life, liberty, long talks at night, laughing, listening, learning, lunch, love letters
M - Mom, music, money, modern medicine, midnight, the moon, movies, memories
N - Nephew, nothing to do, novels, nurses, new books, notebooks
O - Optimism, Oreo cookies, objectivity, originality, open doors
P - Philip (Prince Charming), pianos, poetry, paper, pens, puppies, parties, pools, pen-pals
Q - Quips, quilts, questions with answers, quizzes, quiet time
R - My Redeemer, reading, roses, being right, relatives, rainbows, refrigeration, reminiscing
S - Salvation, sisters, stories, singing, sleep, Sundays, stars, sunshine, sunscreen, soap
T - Trust, trying again, triumph, trivia, toothpaste, colorful tights, travel
U - United States, umbrellas, unity, the universe, an understanding ear, uncles
V - Voting, virtue, victory, vim and vigor, visiting
W - Writing, worship, wisdom, witticism, walking hand in hand, wishes, whispering, weddings
X - X-rays (they come in handy), eXcellence,
Y - You, yarn (although I don't know why), yodeling (because it's funny), yawning
Z - Zeal, zero things on my schedule, zippers, zingers, zebras (black & white = cool)

Just In Case You Thought My Life Idyllic

Here's a partial reckoning of what my youngest (alias "Sweet Pea") has gotten up to today:

1. Did not take a nap at nap-time.

2. Instead, broke a piece off one of Polly's collectible birthday girls.

3. And then dumped her piggy bank out.

4. In her bed.

5. And then carried her change around in a baby food jar.

6. Thereby leaving coins all over the house.

7. Closeted herself in the bathroom. Quietly. (Should've been my clue to start searching)

8. Coated herself and the counter, toilet, floor, etc. with my new "for sensitive skin" face lotion.

9. And unrolled half a roll of toilet paper. Apparently in an attempt to clean up the lotion, 'cause every square was also lotion coated.

10. Did I mention she had an accomplice in the above escapade? It was Tigger. Who has lotion coated hair now.

So. Could I interest you in two slightly sticky little girls? They probably have enough change stuffed in their pockets for bus fare.