Thankful Thursday

I am thankful for my new camera - my old one was in serious need of being retired.  We were lucky if after pressing the button the picture took within a few seconds or so it felt.  I was getting tired of taking pictures of my kids as their smiles faded to half smiles and odd grimaces because the shutter was so slow that it never captured their sweet smiles quick enough.

It is a present from Andy for my birthday. 

I am thankful also for the bright sunshine we have enjoyed the last few days.  It is so warm out and delightful that we have spent lots of our days during the day outside enjoying the fresh air.  After such a long winter I don't feel too bad that the house chores are forgotten in the delight of watching my kids play outside.

I am thankful for the sweet little boy that I have.  He has such a cute little personality.  I watch him wait for the bus every day and nearly every morning he finds some stick out in the grass and fights a vicious and terrible imaginary foe in a life or death sword fight.  Then the bus comes and he flings the stick back into the grass and runs up the steps of the bus.  I chuckle to myself at the scene of his impressive dance across the driveway as he valiantly swings his sword.  I am also thankful that he is big enough to read and write.  This means he writes me love notes and stories.  He made me the cutest book at school about me.  The pictures and things he wrote in it about me were hilarious and tender.  Nothing compares to the feeling a mother gets when their child learns to write "I love you Mom."