It’s been a looooong two weeks or working and people dying. A few days after Krista passed away, another girl I used to work with in my pre-teacher days died at 27 weeks pregnant with her second child – also of a blood clot. Yeesh. So sad. So it’s time to be grateful!

1. My job. Yes, I don’t want to be working but I do have a great job with great hours and I get to work with awesome kids all day. Also I don’t have to drop my kids off until 8 and I pick them up at 3:40, and noon on Fridays. It could be worse. And I have great benefits, a pension and a decent salary.

2. My family. I am so grateful to have two happy & healthy children, a husband who loves me, a mom who is also my friend, in laws & extended families who rock and a few friends who I love like family.

3. Ice cream. I got a cold my first week back to work (snotty little turds) and my sister in law went out & bought me Oreo and Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream for my sore throat. I’m not sick anymore, but I’m still savoring a little bit every night!

4. My home. It’s a crappy layout, needs another bedroom upstairs and is on a park that I’m not a fan of, but it’s ours (well, the bank’s, but whatever) and we have so much more than so many others in the world.

5. Our dayhome. The kids absolutely adore their sitter & new friends, and have an awesome time there. I drag them away every day after work!