Thankful #9

I am thankful for my family.  My dad called from Europe today (granted that made me a little worried until I picked up the phone and he'd just called to chat).  And my sister just got back from a family trip so I got to talk to her for the first time in a week (which is a long time for us).  So, what I am grateful for is familial communication. :)

Thankful #5 through 8

I am thankful for a few things today...
5. I am thankful for visiting friends that I got to dine and hang out with. (yummy and fun dinner and wandering).  I am also thankful that they are the type of friends to whom I can say just about anything.
6. I am thankful for the teachers that also act who are willing to jump in to sub when I get a gig.  Hugely thankful.
7. I am thankful for the reike work I had done today.  I feel so much more grounded.
8. I am thankful that my mother raised me as her "beautiful child" so that I have never doubted my beauty.  Even when I was at that "awkward stage," I figured I was beautiful even if people couldn't see it.

Thankful #4

Okay, I get two today.  I am thankful that I got taken out to dinner by my best friend and her daughter.  It was fun.

Thankful #3

Tonight I am thankful that I am tired enough to go to bed early.  Tomorrow is an early day.  Granted early for me is before midnight.  I am pooped and it is a good feeling.  Goodnight moon.

Thankful #2

I am thankful for the Eta Sigma email list.  Those men make me laugh every day, often out loud.  They make me smile and they cause me to think.  When I am around them I simultaneously feel like a princess and one of the guys (and thinking of what they would do with that statement makes me smile). I feel so very lucky to be included in their conversations and their lives.

Thankful #1

I am thankful for that moment just after you have explained something to a student and you ask "does that make sense?"  And they light up and say "yeah."  Even, "yeah, I think so."  It is when something that I have said resonates with them and they get it on some level.  And having that, that resonance, is what takes them farther on their journey.
So on a broader level, I am thankful for my students.  They truly amaze and delight me.  They make me proud.  They push me to be better and expand myself.

Thankful Posts

Please note that my Thankful posts aren't in any particular order.  If I were to put them in order, friends and family would come first.  They are coming up in the order which my scattered brain percolates them up.  Please don't take umbrage at my percolating brain, just be glad it is percolating.

Funny...odd and random.

Funny...

I wrote about the first day of my last trip to NYC and then nothing.  hmmm...

I wrote nothing of my travels since and there have been plenty.  Most for work, one fabulous one for fun.  And always a little fun thrown into the work trips (don't tell work, they think I am horribly serious ;) ).

Just noting that.  Perhaps I will post something of my trips this last 12 months.  We shall see.

Right now.  I just figured writing about something I am thankful about each day, might just help. 

Help what you ask?  Life in general.  I feel a bit mired down.  And that seems like a good way to get up out of the muck.

Let's see how this goes.