Getting ready for the turkey.

I am grateful for good friends.

I am grateful for my children's exuberance.

I am grateful for old movies.(The really good ones.)

I am grateful for challenges.

I am grateful for the Chapel Hill days.
I am grateful that my jeans fit this week.

I am grateful for The Professor's humility.

I am grateful for all my childhood memories.

I am grateful for The Professor's clan.

I am grateful for my clan.

I am grateful for the silly, the ridiculous and the absurd.

I am grateful for dancing.

I am grateful for having enough.

I am grateful for the life of love and service that my parents led.

I am grateful that my parents always kept on trying to be better.

I am grateful that The Professor joins me in that same endeavor.

I am grateful for this little home that God provided for us in the midst of turmoil. (It has an ice machine, even.)

I am grateful for the precision of The Professor's thinking.

I am grateful to be a part of the calibration of his thought.

I am grateful for my children's voices and faces and hands.

I am grateful that people laugh.

I am grateful for stay at home dates while the children sleep.
I am grateful for my birth experiences.

I am grateful for the spirit.

I am grateful for traditions.

I am grateful for books.

I am grateful for playing.

I am grateful for memory.

I am grateful for learning.

I am grateful for repentance.
I am grateful for my life.

(This is the front door way of counting your blessings. It is called cognitive behavioral therapy. It is just good strategy.)