I'm Thankful For . . .

Harrisen has been so cute with his prayers lately. A few months ago I had to bribe him with bedtime stories to get him to even say his prayers but not anymore.

Every night when he goes to bed he makes sure we don't forget to let him say his prayer. Even when he has fallen sound asleep during family scriptures I go to lay him down and as soon as his head hits the pillow it pops back up and he says " I have to say prayer mom". This makes me so proud, but not half as proud as when I get to listen to what he says in his prayer.

"Thank you for the day, Thank you for the church, Thank you for Jesus, Thank you for my family,( then he names everyone), Thank you for my friends, (naming again), Thank you for me to go on a mission when I get bigger, Thank you for gramma and grampa to go on a mission, Thank you for my home" this goes on for several minutes and not once does he ask for anything. What a sweet little boy.

So following the example of my little boy:
Thank you for my Husband,
Thank you for my kids,
Thank you for my extended family,
Thank you for the comfortable home I have to live in,
Thank you that our family is healthy and happy,
Thank you for my friends,
Thank you for the freedoms which I enjoy,
Thank you for the cars we have to travel in,
Thank you for the trials I get to learn from,
Thank you for my callings, which help me to grow spiritually,
Thank you for good food to eat,
Thank you for the Gospel, and the way it blesses my life,
Thank you for the Temple and how close we live to it,
Thank you for looking out for me and my family
and right now most of all
Thank you for a son who teaches me by his example the way to pray.
"I HAVE BEEN BLESSED"

The back to school bandit

Since Mike has been out of work to snack kinds of food are scarce at our house. which is okay but sometimes missed by the kids. Well not anymore. Some wonderful person dropped off a HUGE bag of all kinds of treats for our kids. They are in heaven 9and Mike is really enjoying it too).

Thank you who ever you are.

Help with home improvement

After Christmas nearly two years ago we bought the supplies to repair and re-tile both of our bathrooms. But after finishing the main one that was damaged from plumbing problems we decided that winter was the wrong season to be cutting tile with a wet saw outside. So we put off doing the downstairs bathroom until spring. Yeah well, that was the plan anyway.

So here we are 20 months after we purchased the tile finally finishing the project that we started. We got everything torn apart and then put back together to the point of actually laying the tile before we realized that we were short 7 bull nose tile (which gives you the finished look on the edge of the tile where it meets up to the sheet rock).

We have spent several frustrating weeks trying to find more of this tile so we could finish what we started only to find that you can't buy that kind anymore, they can't even special order it for us, and we couldn't find anything close enough to not be noticeable. (here is the point where I wanted to cry because we could not afford to put anything into this project right now and with a family our size you need more than one toilet in the house.)

Enter A great Friend at the home depot and voila'. We were able to return all of our tile (that we bought 20 months ago) without a receipt and get enough store credit to buy new, better, prettier tile, the grout we needed to match the new tile, and still have some store credit leftover to put towards a cabinet (which will have to wait until Mike has a job so we can have enough to pay for it).

To me this is a huge blessing! The tile will look great, it won't cost us anything extra, and I'm happier with the new style than I was with what we had. (I did like what we had, I just like this better.)

So THANK YOU John, THANK YOU Home Depot, and most importantly,
THANK YOU Heavenly Father for blessing me this way.