Gushing with Gratitude

Okay people. I am loving the emails I've gotten, and thank you to the few people who've also posted their own gratitude posts (I'm flattered that anyone has responded at all!)...but we can do better, can't we? I know there are more of you out there who have things to be thankful for (your eyes that allow you to read this, for instance)(or, say, your cat)(or, if you don't like cats, then the fact that you don't have a cat).

I was thinking about ways to get more of you to actually participate. I could do a giveaway! Yay! Free stuff! But then, I don't have one, and I can't buy one. Plus, that's not the point. The gift is in the feeling you get from speaking out loud about the great things in your life, and reminding yourself to find those things on a daily basis. Oooh! Maybe there's a free gift after all. Huh?

I could pull the funny card, and make you laugh so hard that you can't help but participate...but I'm kind of out of that kind of funny today. So I thought instead I'd pull the bug-you-about-it-until-you-just-give-in card. And maybe toss in a side of guilt.

In case you're new, or you don't know what I'm talking about, or you just plain old need the step by step instructions...click on the button on the left side panel over there. Don't make it more complicated than it is. Once you do it once, it's a breeze. Copy the first text link, and paste it in your blog the same way you would create any other link (in the html editing screen). Then do the same with the second. Then write your entry. Then copy and paste the url of your entry on my comments for this entry. Any day of the week. When ever you feel extra thankful.

As for me this week. I have a whole long list. But mostly, I'm thankful just simply for the time I have in the every day moments with my girls, and the fact that Andrew works so hard so that I can be here with them, and they can spend these first few years of life in their warm, safe home. I am so gosh-darn lucky to be here with them and watch them grow. Sometimes it's a love fest. Sometimes we drive each other bonkers. But it's never dull. It's never predictable. It's always special.

Here's a quick clip from about 8am one morning last week. It's short because the camera ran out of juice, but really, if you just sit at your computer and click "replay" about 40 bazillion times, it'll be like you were right there with me.
I'm not exaggerating. 40 bazillion. Then break for snacks, and then again. It's like if there's no noise, we might all implode. Like they have to do this for the greater good. Like we can't survive in silence. I really think they think that. And as much as it makes my head spin, after 3 1/2 years with the noise, I'm not sure I could survive in silence.