Parfait

Today I am grateful to have berries that I froze this summer so that I can have delicious parfaits any time I want!  YUM.

Winter Fairland

Today I am grateful for having instant access to natures beauty.  The frost on the tree made me fly out the door with wet hair to capture these.

Child's Perspective

I am grateful today for a child's perspective.  That saying "Kids say the darn-dist things"  is what I think of when Audrey says things like this.  "Mommy, that cabinet sure holds a lot more than it seems like it could."  It seems mundane, and well it is.  But from her perspective, sitting at the breakfast counter, observing me daily take out the vinegar to clean fruit, wipes to do the counter tops and any number of other items in that tall narrow cabinet;  it was a spot on- unstated observation.  And it made me smile this morning. 

Beer

 I am grateful for beer.  

All beer.  OK maybe not ALL beer, (Bud Light is insipid)

Lite beer, dark beer, hoppy beer, malty beer, Trappist monk beer, Irish beer, German beer, Minnesota beer, Kansas City Beer and my beautiful beer fridge.   

Thank you Charlie Mops.  He is the mythical inventor of beer, as described by the drinking song "Beer, Beer, Beer". His name is presumably meant to rhyme with barley and hops, two main ingredients in beer.

Long weekends

I am grateful for long weekends.  We had a three day weekend thanks to Dr. Rev Martin Luther King.  We spent it with David's good friend Mike and his family.  We enjoyed two PERFECT Minnesota winter days with ice fishing and snow tubing.  Bliss.

Molly

 

Tommy

The Tube Group

I am grateful for heat.  I love a warm home.  

When so many struggle to stay warm in Minnesota, I appreciate all the hard work my husband does to keep our wood burning stove stoked.

Gratitude

I have been thinking lately about gratitude and how being grateful for the things in our lives has a way of compounding our happiness.  

I am grateful.  

Grateful for my family, my home, my job and the list goes on.  But I was thinking how perhaps I can record my gratitude and pair it with photos.  (Wish I would have thought of this on December 31st and not January 12th but -shrugging shoulders- Oh well better late than never.

I am grateful for laughter.