I love Thanksgiving. It’s a holiday that is more and more looked over by everyone in the rush for Christmas, but I think it’s important to be grateful. Should we be grateful every day? Of course. But in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, we forget a lot.  So having a holiday set aside to remind us how lucky we really are is a good thing, in my opinion. In honor of this, I am going to try and post each day something I am grateful for.

(A lot of people are posting their “Grateful for” daily on FB. I think that’s cool and all, but I’ll save it for my blog.)

November 1: I am grateful for fall. I always loved the leaves changing and the cooler air. I miss the actual change you see in the seasons that you get in the mountains or the North East, but here, I am just grateful for the change from 90-100 degree temps to the high of the day only being 82! (Seriously. It’s a relief to open the door and NOT feel like you are walking out into an oven.)

November 2: I am grateful for Evie smiles.

There is nothing in the world that brings me more joy now than this little girl when she gives me a big, happy grin like this. And on days like today where she’s been grumpy and refuses to take more than 20-30 minute naps all day long, when she flashes me with one of her amazing smiles, it’s all forgotten, and the world is good again.

I really am a lucky girl!