Category: Thankful Thursdays

Each week I take note of big and little things I’m thankful for. Gratitude takes practice and this is my practicing place.

Thankful Thursday #10

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This week I’m thankful for…

  • the sounds my husband makes in his sleep
  • my mom’s chocolate chip cookies
  • my students who popped by my house Friday afternoon
  • Mexican food
  • the smell of clothes in the dryer wafting through the air as I walked the neighborhood
  • the little boy who stayed a few minutes after school to tell just to tell me how much fun he had at school that day.  We didn’t do anything out of the ordinary that day, which made the compliment that much sweeter.
  • Monday night Bible study
  • dollar movie night with the hubby
  • a fresh haircut
  • the little girl in my class who came to school with a silver shower curtain ring on her wrist because “anything round can be a bracelet, right?”  I sense a budding fashion designer.

Thankful Thursday #9

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This week I’m thankful for…

  • the roses Terry brought to my classroom on Friday.  I love “just because” flowers and the man who brings them to me.
  • lemongrass soap.
  • these tips on revision that make me feel like my wordslugging is worth it.
  • when the thermometer hit 70.  A little taste of spring in January has me pining for more.
  • skirts and dresses because they’re so much more fun to wear than pants.
  • reading in the bathroom.
  • the bumper sticker I saw that read “Wag more, bark less”.
  • this awesome LEGO cycling gorilla:
from the brilliant site A LEGO A Day

Thankful Thursday #8

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This week I’m thankful for…

  • the pink sunset reflecting off the white cap of Mt. Lassen
  • bedhead so terrible that I actually jumped at the shadow it cast on the wall.  No joke.  Then I woke Terry with it and scared the pants off of him, too.
  • magazines in the mailbox
  • walking to church Sunday mornings
  • Monday holidays
  • Donald Miller’s take on gratitude
  • when Terry puts gas in my car
  • raspberry apple flavored water

Thankful Thursday #7

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This week I’m thankful for…

  • the beautiful notebook a friend made for me.
  • the little boy in my classroom who was so excited about a card I’d put in his mailbox that he hugged my leg extra tight
  • Ruby Bridges for inspiring my kids to be brave
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. for giving me goosebumps every time I hear his speech
  • sheets fresh from the dryer
  • cold Saturday mornings perfect for writing in bed
  • my Words With Friends friends
  • frigid bike rides followed by scalding hot showers
  • one of my little girls, who on finding out we were getting yet another new student, said “We are the luckiest class-we always get new friends!”,  I’ve welcomed three new kids into our class within a week.  I’m going to try hard to have the same perspective as the little girl and think about how lucky I am to spend time with these new little ones.
  • the little girl in my class who, after writing pages and pages of a story, proclaimed, “Mrs. McCauley, I wrote lots of Golden Lines.”  Yes you did, little one, yes you did.
  • Terry, always Terry.

Thankful Thursday #6

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This week I’m thankful for…

  • catching snowflakes on my tongue
  • the way Terry jumped over furniture just to get to me and kiss me at midnight on New Year’s Eve
  • my friend, Abby, who found my ring after I accidentally flung it out the car window-oops!
  • fresh pineapple
  • game night with friends
  • sack lunches in the sunshine
  • avocados
  • walking my neighborhood at night when the stars are out
  • having lots of my “fat clothes” taken in and giving the rest of them away
  • time with my students after such a long break
  • Terry cooking me vanilla pancakes
  • time to write poetry
  • my nephew who needed just one more hug and kiss before I left