Heart of Gratitude

So, I am taking the plunge...I have joined a Gratitude Community (see the box at the bottom of my page.)

I have been thinking I need to...to start counting my blessings...naming them one by one...well, because there are just so many...but my days get busy...my heart gets heavy...my thankful muscles weak...

So here we go...hoping to keep up with this...will you join me...the goal is 1,000 things to be thankful for...I have a hunch there will be many, many more...

Grateful.

001. Sunny Fall afternoons outside with my kids
002. Warm smelling candles
003. Giggles of a 5 and 2 year old.
004. Time spent with a dear friend.
005. Homemade applesauce.
006. Birds singing in my chimney.
007. A husband who calls to 'check in' throughout the day.
008. A Fall wreath hanging on my front door.
009. Pumpkins
010. Mums actually planted.

Eli's Bedtime Song

We interrupt our normal riveting program (a.k.a. Sarah's Extremely Personal and Embarrassing Diary Entries Circa 1985) to bring you this highly entertaining and precious rendition of "Praise the Lord" sung by Eli Williams in both Ga (from Ghana West Africa) and English.

Do enjoy the song in it's entirety...as there is a very strong (and keeping it real) finish.

May 14, 1987

WOW! Guess what? The 5 months have past! Mom had her baby!

IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!!!

Jamie Carol
6 lbs. 15 ounces
21 inches long
8:23 PM

Isn't it great! I've got 2 sisters!
I am excited!

But I am scared too. What will it be like to be stuck in the middle? (Who knows.)

Oh, well. Life can't get much worse.

Sarah

(bubble letters) IT'S A GIRL!


Editorial note: apparently I have always been a bit on the dramatic side..."life can't get much worse"?!?!?!?!? geesh.

March 6, 1985

Dear Diary,

Hi! My day was pretty good, nothing bad happened! Except for when C. and T. tried to get me in the tunnel of love with (heart) S. (heart). :) But of course I didn't go! See what you do is sit on a boys lap and go down the curly slide together. S T U P I D !

S. C. + S. H. TLA


(real names have been omitted to protect the innocent)

Testing, Testing...1. 2. 3...

This is a test...trying to make my pictures larger...

Meanwhile...please enjoy another picture from Chloe's Cheerleading/Littlest Pet Shop Party.

You Will Never Believe What I Just Found...

We are condensing our storage issues...last night I came across another box...

Oh. My. Goodness. Are you sitting down?

Inside this box, not only did I find my Junior High yearbook with all it's completely sincere 'Friends Forever' insignias and my 'Through the School Years" scrap book...

I found my diary from 5th - 8th grade!!! Holy cheesiness, Batman, this thing is pure pre-adolescence at it's finest.

It is pink.
It has 'MY DIARY' on the front complete with my initials, SMH.
(Which, by the way, proves that I have always had a thing for initials. To this day I love them. I buy them on sale at Marshall's for anyone I can think of whose name starts with the letters that are available. Every person in my family has a 12 inch letter of their own that I have yet to find the perfect place for....oh...and I also have letters to spell out both of my children's names...I envision them above their beds...but have yet to actually nail them to the wall...)

I digress.

The entries in this diary are classic and hysterical.

Opening page:

ABOUT ME
I'm 10 1/2 years old.
I'm in 5th grade.
My favorite things are:
Color: Pink
Book: Super Fudge
Movie Star: Annie
Best Friend: Daphne
Singer: New Edition
Food: Tacos

Very private diary entries to come. Can you handle the suspense?

Oh, and BTW...tacos are still my favorite food.

Wrong Side of the Bed

I told Chloe that her brother "woke up on the wrong side of the bed."
Her reply, "Well, which side was it?"

Makes me giggle, this girl.

Disclaimer: E, you rarely wake up on the "wrong side of the bed." You are one very-early-rising-easy-going-guy. So we cut you some slack...just so you know.