Being thankful

Sorry about that!

Here are a couple of things I am thankful for:

* I am thankful for my car. Because when I go to start it and the battery is dead (like this morning), we have wonderful neighbors to help me push the car out of the garage, who will hold my snotty baby, and who don't even mention that the door handle is broken and you have to roll down the window to get out.

* I am thankful for my stuffed nose. Because I can't smell anything! Zachariah can toot and Selah Grace can make a big poopy diaper and Brian can walk in like What DIED? and I'm blissfully unaware.

* I am thankful for Zac's teacher. Because I have the experience to know how to supplement at home to make sure he learns something this year. Because he has made some good friends and has fun in PE and loves telling his jokes at lunch. And maybe I can school her a little on the bible because surely if you've read the bible you would know how to spell his name. And because I'm room mom now, so I guess I have to like her.

* I really am SO SO VERY grateful to be at home with my kids. It's where my heart is. The short period of time I had to put Zachariah in daycare years and years ago were excrutiating for me. Plus I get to take 2, sometimes 3, naps each day.

* I am so thankful that Brian works so hard to be a wonderful provider for us. I know I can go get a Jason's Deli turkey wrap when I'm really sick and I think it's the only thing I might be able to swallow, only to come home and realize I cannot swallow it at all because for some reason, all of a sudden, the sight of lettuce makes me need to vomit, and I end up throwing it away. And we still have some cash left over for Papa Johns.

* I am thankful for rain. Because it made the worms come out. And that's an event around here. And we were able to find 3 really big ones in the short period of time I felt okay, and we've been able to keep them alive in our beach bucket and it has really been so fun for Zachariah.

* I am thankful to be sick. Because I have no fears about whether or not I have miscarried my baby. There is no doubt, I'm very much pregnant. And when the dr can't find the heartbeat, I am 100% certain it's there.

* I am thankful for being labeled a "high risk" pregnancy. Because I get extra ultrasounds and extra double-checking to make sure baby is just fine and normal. And all of SG's doctors have been great with providing information on her to my new doctors, so everyone is on the same page. And weirdly enough, I'm delivering at a different hospital, but the dr who delivered SG is now working there, and she knows exactly what happened at SG's birth, which makes it easier on me (less retelling and she can use all the dr terminology).

* I am thankful it's September. Because even though I completely missed out on the end of summer, I am now in a very special month - both of my babies birthdays are in September!!!! I love to remember how they felt while carrying them, their birth stories (kind of), how they felt while nursing them, their similarities and differences, and ALL the ways they have both totally blessed my life. And I get to have some new "fall" memories with SG to make up for last fall.



I'm not going to lie. That took me some effort to write that today. We've got a lot going on and we are both stressed. But, I know we are very blessed, even though things seem really hard at times.

And as my friend Tracy says, it is what it is. :)