I'm thankful.

For a wonderful husband, who is also a wonderful father.   

Who is someone that I still enjoy being with after all this time, and who is someone that knows me well enough that he will call me outside to watch migrating birds.

I’m thankful for migrating birds.  They are amazing.  Watching them in flight – unreal.  And they can be so deafening loud and then they startle and in an instant there is complete silence except for the whoosh sound of a thousand wings and it sounds like they are just sucking up all the air with them.

I’m thankful for an adorable son who makes me take the time to admire a crawling snail. And then demands instant gratification of watching a video of said snail. 

That's right.  It's a video of a snail.  Crawling.  That's it.  

And who makes me laugh by saying things like “Mommy!  Don’t start the car – I need my scarf and my plate so I can steer the train! 

I am thankful for the most perfect, chill little baby in the whole wide world. 

Who makes life so easy and is already so much fun to hang out with. And who just lights up my heart with her smile. 

I’m thankful for a mom that cooks an amazing Thanksgiving dinner.  Even if she does try to feed my 7 month old baby ice cream.

And you know what else I’m thankful for?  That she bought the house two doors down from me so that when I’m done eating that thanksgiving dinner it’s just a short waddle back home.