Thankfulness in January

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We started to keep a Gratitude Journal for 2009, and we want to post our thankful list at the end of each month! It's rather long, so we won't elaborate on anything. Just want to focus on our attitude of gratitude!

In no particular order, January's thanks:

1. Tickle sessions
2. Crunchy apples
3. Doritos
4. Kitty cats hiding under brightly lit Christmas trees
5. Ruled paper and fine point pens
6. The letter "O"
7. Internet access and email, facebook, blogger, myspace, Google Reader
8. New beginnings
9. Salt
10. VISA cards and their international acceptance
11. Rosy cheeks and noses
12. Lights and electricity and heat in a country where the sun rises after 8 a.m. and sets before 5 p.m.
13. Layered clothing
14. Hoodies
15. Digital cameras
16. Mommy and Popeye
17. Things that bounce, slide, and roll
18. Bubble bath and little empty shampoo bottles
19. Seat heaters in rental cars
20. Escalators and elevators
21. Nesting dolls, especially the baby doll
22. Belly buttons
23. Chips (not just Doritos)
24. Silk scarves
25. Sunshine and rainbows
26. Microwave popcorn
27. Juice in a box
28. Felt book from Grandma
29. Wireless internet
30. Dryers - no laundromats!
31. Connect 4 game
32. Tea parties and a baby girl who is starting to try new foods again
33. No rain during our walk
34. Birds outside, especially steller jays and robins
35. Spaghetti and meatballs
36. New laptops
37. Beads
38. A new bicycle!
39. Free time
40. A common language by which we can communicate
41. Neck massage
42. Watching a movie ALL the way through...
43. Long walks
44. Rivers
45. Did I mention CHIPS?
46. Sabbath School
47. Boys
48. Pretty dresses and shoes
49. Kitty cats everywhere I go!
50. Dry diapers

Here's a silly rhyme Mommy brainstormed:

And be thankful that you have
hot water to do your dishes -
That you don't have to wash them
in a river full of fishes
and crocodiles and hippos
and bilharzia-carrying snails.
However down and out you are,
an attitude of gratitude never fails...