Gratitude List:
1.  I got all the mud washed off the boys before the water pump died.
2.  Jon knows how to figure out what’s wrong and solve the problem when there is suddenly no water.  Good man!
3.  Reading Owls in the Family with the boys.  Hearing my own mother’s voice behind my own from the days when she read it to me.  Laughing and laughing.
4.  Taking the work seriously.
5.  Yesterday was so easy–they just kept coming.  Today it’s really hard to get to five things to be grateful for.  I was so sure that I’d have a shower and be reading the kids to sleep by now.  But Jon and Ellis are off buying a new pump, and I am sitting here sticky and filthy and covered in dust and grit from cleaning in the garage all day.  I realize how my state of being really affects my ability to find things to be grateful for.  So I guess that’s my fifth one for today: learning to exist in many different states.  And also the anticipation of a shower when Jon gets home and gets the water pump fixed.

May we walk in beauty.