Thankfulness & hope
It's Wednesday evening. The first day of school this week after the freezing temps gave us two days off. I'm inside keeping warm, waiting for my husband to get home, and feeling so thankful. I can usually list off a pretty long list of things that I am thankful for, but the sad thing is that I don't always FEEL thankful for them. I can acknowledge that they are good things in my life that I KNOW I am thankful for, yet sometimes I'm just not feeling grateful. Today I am very grateful. I very much enjoyed having two extra days off this week. Generally, during the school year, I feel like I can never catch up on sleep. I wake up so early every day that usually on the weekends I can't sleep in long enough to feel like it has helped. But this weekend I slept in. Yesterday I slept until 10, and it was glorious. I am also thankful for my husband. He is just so wonderful and loving, and we got to spend a lot of quality time toget...