Thankful Thursday

Today has been one of those Thursdays where a lot is going on and a lot is on my mind and I have had a hard time trying to see the positive out of a situation and instead worry and worry and worry about things.  Therefore, it has been a bit difficult to find things to be "thankful" for today.

I'm going to try anyway because it is just essential that I get a clear head about things and find the good in things right now.  So from top to bottom:

Andrew: I am thankful that yesterday he could come home from work to relieve me of the duty of figuring out dinner with a splitting headache as well as taking Corilynn to the doctors office.  I am thankful that he listens to me and is one of those partners who really does care about my feelings and loves me.

Chantal: I am thankful that we have some common interests.  We like the same kind of music and so we have had fun blaring the radio in the kitchen while we cook dinner or drive in the car or clean up the room.  I am thankful for whenever she hugs my kids or wants to help with Ruby.  I am thankful that she is such a sensitive, feeling person.  I hope in the coming weeks we can learn to communicate our feelings better together.  I think we both have common goals we want to achieve in this relationship.

Lyman: I am thankful for a girl in his class named Becky who loves to chase him and tell him she wants to marry him and tries to kiss him.  It is every mother's dream that their son will make friends at school and that girls will like them.  However, it is also every mother's nightmare.  For now I am appeased and thankful that his reaction to her advances has been to laugh and run away and to not let her kiss him cause that "would be gross."  I asked him if he is kind to her and he said he is.  I am thankful that I have not raised a mean kid - just an irresistibly handsome one.  I am thankful for the laugh that lightened my mood today when I talked to Lyman about this today because I remember distinctly the boys that I chased around in kindergarten telling them I was going to marry them and kiss them.  Sorry to Garret, Tim, and Byron -- wherever you all are out there.  May you not carry psychological scars.

Corilynn: I am thankful that she has gotten herself a UTI.  That sounds terrible, I am sure.  But if it seems to have convinced her that going to the potty to go pee instead of doing it in her pants and wiping (not skipping) is important.  Apparently Mom did know better when I warned her she could get an infection if she didn't do these things or stop doing other things.  I am thankful though for her sake that we have the ability in these modern ages to get her medicine to kill the infection.

Ruby: Is there anything not lovely and darling about my Ruby dubes?  I am thankful for her little bright-not-stress-causing-because-she-hasn't-learned-how-to-cause-me-grief personality.  She is delightful and cute.  She stands independently every now and then and I love the confidence she is gaining with it.  She loves to pull away from me when I feed her and tell me a few funny sentences in her little baby garble and then get back on like we are just having lunch together instead of me nursing her.  I love love love it.  I am so grateful for her little tiny body.