Thankful Thursday

Good Morning World! Today is a great day. It's a day to count your blessings and name them one by one. Ok, that might take a FEW days, so let's just name a couple for now, lol!!

First, I'm always thankful for my wonderful husband. That man brought me and Sarah flowers AGAIN yesterday! Fall flowers this time! He's so awesome.

I'm thankful for the work he got done the two days he took off this week. It's starting to look like a totally different house! Still looking for that delivery of sand for the front yard so I can officially call it my beach house, lol!!

I'm thankful for the man at the post office who told me I could mail jeans First Class International. All this time I've been going by what somebody else there told me, and thought they were too big to ship that way. I'm hoping sales will increase even more now, but I'm still waiting. Thank the Lord for 5 International sales so far this week and 5 last week, but none of them were jeans. Oh well, in time....

I'm thankful that my sales have increased over all recently. I think I finally have my listings looking professional enough to compete with other jean sellers, and I've been doing VERY well the last 3 weeks. Praise the Lord!!!!!

I'm thankful for Mitzi's new bed I made her. She would NOT stay off of my jeans, so I had to cover them with bubble wrap or anything she can't lay on.
I wanted to buy her a bed so bad, but Rob and Bobby both argued that she would NOT use it. She had one years ago, and wouldn't use it. She likes clothes or boxes with clothes in them, lol!! I finally took a Post Office Mailing Box and put a towel in it. That crazy cat has barely left it since. It's not pretty, a rather ugly eyesore in the living room, but hey.....SHE LOVES IT!!!!
I thank the Lord for my wonderful Mom and Dad, who celebrated their 48th Anniversary yesterday. I LOVE you guys!!! And for Robs grandpa, the "original" Robert Earl Jeffreys Sr., who turned 91 on Tuesday. May they all have many celebrations to come :-D

I thank the Lord for all the wonderful friends and family that keep popping up on Facebook! What an awesome way to connect with family you haven't seen in ages (or in some cases, ever)!! I love keeping up with cousin Crystal (one day we will meet!!!) and her baby news, Congrats on finding out it's a boy!!! And Kim and her wedding plans: very exciting! Talking to Leslie and Doug more often than when we HAPPEN to get to Pennsylvania at the same time, lol!! And I talk to my brother more now than I did when he lived here, that's crazy!!! But it's an awesome site, and I thank God for it!!!

I'm thankful for my Church, and what God is doing through our new leadership. People are excited about the changes, and we are growing. Our new youth leader Carl has already increased attendance of the youth, and they LOVE him, but who doesn't? He's been our "baby" since he was little, and I'm so excited that he's grown into the awesome young man he is today. God sent him back to us just when we needed him!!

I'm thankful for my children! They are the light of my life. They keep me sane, or insane....I can't decide. All I know is I would be lost without them. It makes me tear up just thinking about how much joy they've brought to my life! When Sarah was born, God used her to show us how to live outside the box! Nothing would be cookie cutter perfect when it came to taking care of her. We learned to take whatever we had and make it work for our circumstances. I never would have even considered what it was like to raise a disabled child had she not been born. God has taught us compassion for others through her life! Sarah is Daddy's girl, but I forgive her for that, lol!!!! She has been the bright spot in a lot of lives through her years, and God has blessed her with good health inspite of her disability! We have seen lots of SB kids with much more severe problems than her, and we feel fortunate!

Then came Bobby! I know he won't admit it, but he was (is) a Mommy's boy! Sarah is outgoing and never meets a stranger, just like Rob. Bobby is shy and reserved, just like me. To this day, if Bobby wants to order a pizza, he makes me call. He's not one to talk much...unless he is excited about a possible new truck or toy purchase....then he can really get the gums going! He's such a great kid, and I thank God that he has grown into the responsible young man that he is today! Watching him grow up is bittersweet. I'm so excited about what his future holds, but wish I could sometimes rock my baby boy to sleep again. They grow up way too fast!!!!!

Oh, can you tell....I LOVE my chillens!!

Enough now, I have a million things to do. Just had to take a minute to be thankful for the blessings in my life! Won't you do the same today? Have a great one :-D