What a Great Day!

First I want to take this moment to thank all the people that have died serving our country to give me the freedom that I have today. I had a great day. It started by getting up early and going to my grandparent's house to cook them a home-cooked breakfast. They are 91 and 95 and still live on their own. Everyday tasks are getting difficult but they are too proud to ask for help. We cooked sausage and gravy, bacon, eggs, and fish roe cakes ( yucko, but my mom and grandparents like them). I then cooked them pancakes for tomorrow and some grilled cheese sandwiches for later that day. They were thankful. Later we had a cookout at my sister's house. Just my immediate family. We did not decide to do this until about noon so it was last minute plans. Our goal was 4 PM. My brother had been in contact with my pastor and had invited him to come if we did anything. At 4:15 PM both him and his wife pulled up to join us. It was a delightful evening. It is so great to have a pastor that you can call by his first name or Pastor Tommy. He and his wife are such a delightful couple. I just have to say that we laughed alot. We also had him cracking up when we confessed what we do during his sermons. My sister-in-law does all she can to keep my brother awake, you know my brother, the head deacon. My sister confessed that she makes out her grocery list. Then I had to confess that when I am in service and not in children's worship that I spend most of my time counting how many gray hairs my sister has that she says she does not have. He was quite amused. He knows we do not do this every Sunday but were giving him a hard time. He is such a great man. Thank you Lord for our friendship with our Pastor and his wife.

Thankful Thursday

I have been going through some personal struggles that have left me wondering if I was thankful for anything at this stage in my life. I have contemplated it for these few Thankful Thursdays and decided that maybe this would life my spirits.

I am thankful for

• God's love... he is always there we just have to find him and get our minds off "me"
• My beautiful nephew... Praise the Lord for adoption
• The love of my nephew... he loves for me for who I am
• My parents
• My grandparents, she is 90 and he is 94
• My health, last year was pretty scary
• My preschool sunday school class... oh I love those kids
• My siblings... even when we argue, we were all blessed with different opinions
• My handsome orange tabby cat... even though he plopped on my stomach at least 15 times this morning because he felt I needed to get up
• Roof over my head
• Food in the cupboards, refrigerator and freezer
• DVR
• Clean clothes
• Running water
• YMCA-cheap membership so I can work out and work my frustrations out
• Blogger and my followers that let me vent
• Jen, for reading the long emails I can not blog about

Well, actually I could go on but I will save some for next Thursday.