Things I'm Thankful For

In no particular order...

• Several family dinners where we felt kind of "normal". Just five people sitting and eating (and throwing a good bit of food on the floor). aaahhhh
• The fact that me not cooking is actually considered a perk to Jim. He's in heaven getting take-out or just rotisserie chicken from the grocery.
• Nap times for Owen. So glad he still naps.
• ABBA music soothes the savage beast. (Discovered that on Jim's iPod...ahem...) Nothing like swaying to Chiquitita to make the tears stop (those would be mine...but it also makes Owen's screams stop).
• Natalie can still draw her self-portrait smiling.
• Crayolas are non-toxic (not related to the above, but to the new little person).
• Tigger is apparently not as mean as I always tell people. I've pretty much reached the point of "OK, cat, show him what you can do!" and Tigger just looks miserable and hunkers down or swats futilely with his de-clawed front paws while looking at me like "Woman, what have you done! What have you done!" sigh....
• Orphanage music class. The hand motions and dance moves are very cute. The boy seriously loves music.
• Liam's response of "As long as this doesn't have anything to do with salad..." when I tried to start a family talk with, "I would like you all to try something for me..." (I was going to ask that we all treat each other extra lovingly right now - it did NOT have anything to do with salad).
• My husband, for doing more picking up, cleaning, kid watching, and telling me to go to bed because I'm just tired, than he ever has before.