November 1

Today I am thankful for a loving Father in Heaven that has helped me learn how to listen to my body and help it be healthy

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Today's happenings

When I posted about my dealing with S.A.D.D. I was just happy about the sunshine and trees and flowers and the feeling of coming out of hibernation. (and grouchiness if truth be told).  But I had to describe the bad and darkness for you to be able to understand how happy and free those little buds on the trees made me feel.  The end.

Or so I thought until I got home today and opened the mail.  All I have to say is, "Oh wow!" Thank you friend. You know who you are. Your gesture made me cry, but they were tears of happiness and thankfullness.  You really do understand what it means to be nice.

And  a thank you to the friend that "introduced" us through his blog.

What would I do without the friends that I have???

I love you all.

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Today

Today I am thankful for:

A warm coat

And gloves

An abundance of food to choose from at the store

A place to store and cook that food

Internet research for school

My washing machine and dryer

Electric lights

My furnace

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Thankful day 17

Day 17. This is getting hard. Harder than I thought it would be to do a thankful post everyday. Mostly because I want my posts to be about something other than things. That would be easy, I could just go through my closet, or walk through my rooms full of stuff and pick random things to be thankful for. But there is so much in my life that I take for granted or just forget to say thank-you for. There is also a lot that I am thankful for but don't want to blog about because then you would know that I am flawed, imperfect, make mistakes, and need to make improvements.

But then those of you that know me personally already know that about me. That I am at times impatient, judgemental and sometimes downright unreasonable. My house is never as clean as I would like it to be. I weigh more than I should, I waste too much time on trivial pursuits and speak sharply to my children when what they want is an understanding mother. I worry to much about my own comfort levels and not enough about those that go without. And I definately do not do enough to help others.

So today what I am thankful for the most is that I don't have to have all of those things corrected, perfected, changed before the clock strikes 12 tonight. What I do have to do is to recognize them and work on changing them and do better tomorrow than I did today. I am thankful for a Father in Heaven who knows me and understands that even when I am trying, I am going to fall short and mess up. And I am thankful that He made the sacrifice of His only Begotten Son so that in the end it will be alright.

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Thankful day 2

photo courtesy of this site

This is my view every morning as I turn the corner of the school after watching the sun come up over Mt. Timpanogos. (and shooing students to class)

I get to watch the sun as it illuminates the Oquirrh mountains when it peaks over Mt. Timp each and every weekday. Even when it is bitter cold and the wind is blowing, I am awestruck by the beauty of the sunrise. My day is better because of it.

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Thankful day 1

Being outside every weekday morning and seeing the sun rise over beautiful Mt. Timpanogos.


Picture courtesy of this site

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The good parts

There are some good things about working in a jr. high. School vacations comes to mind, especially as today is the last day of this school week before Thanksgiving.

Friends in the form of other teachers is another one. Lindsey is one such friend. She just popped by with a couple of notes that some students in her homeroom class wrote for me. They are on cute little note papers with a picture of a turkey.

Students are another good thing about working in a jr. high. One of the notes said "Thanks for all you do". Honestly, I had to look up the student's name, because I did not know who it was. After I had looked him up and saw his picture, I knew him, but just didn't know his name.

The other note said, "Its me _____ your fav. Your the coolest person in the school. I was tardy on purpose to see you. Love _________" This really is one of my favorite students. I heard him tell someone once that I was like his big sister or maybe even his mom. He always has a smile (and some sort of shennanigans) for me, and I am always happy to see him and hate it when I have to correct him. Much the same as with my own kids.

Thank you Lindsey for having the students write the notes and reminding me that I really do like the students here (for the most part anyway).

A good day

Today is a good day even though it is Monday. It is early out day at school, a short day in a short work week before a holiday that includes family getting together. Who could ask for more?

I did have a couple of glitches, but they were ok. The pharmacy messed up and someone forgot to order my prescription. I am the only customer they have that uses this particular medicine and they have to have it drop shipped to them. They are supposed to have one as a spare at all time. So they order two, give me one and then order another. Someone didn't order the spare so when I filled my prescription last month, I got the last one and when I went in today- no medicine. They can have it here on Wed. It is an injection and it will be ok to inject 24 hrs. later than normal, but it would have been a problem if I had been going on vacation this week. The pharmacist was unhappy with his staff. But it will all be good in the end.

Also, I had my first real emergency as a first responder at school today. I have dealt with a couple of sprained ankles and hurt wrists and "I'm not feeling so well" but this afternoon, we had a student have a seizure in class. The teacher and other students were more upset than anything, but it was ok. I guess this student has seizures frequently, at night when he is asleep so it wasn't in his profile. His parents hadn't even filled out a medical emergency sheet for him. That is what upset me the most! How do you let your child go to school without emergency numbers in any case, but especially when they have a medical disorder! I guess because these seizures happen at night, they figured it wouldn't happen at school, but he had one last night and didn't sleep well and was tired and fell asleep in class.

Got home and there was a message from the Public Works Director for the city. He wanted me to call him. He could not apologize more for the flower problem. The city is going to pay for me a new peony bush for my front yard. He then asked how it could have been handled differently. I told him that if the crew had just taken 2 minutes to walk to my door and ask what I wanted them to do with the flowers, then there would have been no problem. So maybe he could have them just be more aware of what they take out of yards as they do this project that would help. We are all friends and all is taken care of, and I am a bit more happy about the whole thing. I even found a small piece of the peony bulb- very small- but I might be able to eventually nurse it back into a nice flower.

Saw this in the paper today and thought it was appropriate:

Not what we have, but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
J. Petit-Senn

The Lord 's Promises

“And he who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious; and the things of this earth shall be added unto him, even an hundred fold, yea, more.”
Doctorine & Covenants 78:19