Last year’s Thanksgiving gratitudes are all relevant still today. I have Dido’s Thank You running through my head this morning. Yesterday was 35 people for dinner in Marion – a big crowd, lots of chaos with 7 rambunctious children running around, and a rich assortment of family and old friends.
I’m tired from poor sleep and can only muster this list of simple things I’m thankful for today (despite exhaustion I know I am very, very thankful, and enormously blessed).
- red licorice
- Oyster Bay on the rocks
- cross country flights
- Weeds, The Office, and Chuck (only TV I watch these days)
- great books and time to read them
- my Sunday afternoon runs
- Starbucks venti skim lattes
- “Waiting for My Real Life to Begin” and “The Luckiest” (current favorite songs)
- homemade chocolate sauce
- Anastasia, who takes care of me
- tucking Grace and Whit in (and having them stay there)
- Amazon Prime
- Lego
- my Nike + running sensor
- The nursery school both Grace and Whit went to
- homemade chicken nuggets
- bookstores
- iChat sessions over wine with Hadley
- Christmas carols
- my Subaru
- potty trained children
- my black fleece North Face vest that I wear constantly
- Diet Coke
- the smell of laundry
- Sharon Olds, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich
- Christina’s daily phone call to check in
- my annual December movie
- Armando’s pizza