31 Days to Thankfulness: Day 22

I'm starting to wonder who's bright idea it was to 

choose October for this little endeavor and not say,

February!?

It's not that I can't come up with 31 things to be thankful for, 

I just don't know if I have the writing aptitude

to expound on all of them. 

Can I just be thankful to be here?

That was the pat response at the dinner table 

when one of us was just feeling too worn 

out by the day to even think. 

We really made a point to eat dinner as a family

when the kids were growing up. 

Mike would say grace and then one year Shanna 

had this great idea that we should each

say one thing we were grateful for that day.

It stuck. 

We still do it. 

This makes me think about something else we did

when the kids were little. 

Dishes by hand. 

We chose not to have a dishwasher. 

The kids would clear the table and Mike and I 

would do the dishes together. 

It was actually a nice relaxed time together. 

We still do it.

I think back, about how we raised our kids. 

We didn't have a grand plan or really even a clue.

We just loved our little family and God

saw us through all the stuff we got wrong. 

We thanked God for His grace back then. 

We still do it.