This Week's Thankful List (With Photos)

I am thankful...

...that two teenage boys in our town have a habit of pulling this wagon around the streets at Christmas time giving rides to any who desire...


...that it snowed enough last year here in Mexico for the 12-year-old boy to build this...

...that when I threw together this hobo/clown costume a half hour before the Halloween party for the 8-year-old boy last year, I had no idea he would come home with a first place ribbon!

...that my husband's a great photgrapher...

...that the 16-year-old boy doesn't seem to mind getting mobbed by the toddler directly after his football game...

...that the 13-year-old girl trusted me to give her highlights...

...for the memories my husband gave me when he took the six kids camping for two nights six weeks before the twins were born - leaving me ALONE ...for 48 hours. It was a beautiful time for me. I closed all the blinds in our tiny apartment, made bean and american cheese burritos, and homemade chocolate ice cream, never took off my fluffy pink robe, and watched Madame Butterfly and some other really cool movies that I can't at this time remember. I even remember walking by a permanent marker in the kitchen, turning towards it to grab it and put it away, then telling myself, "No. There is no one here who will touch that. I don't have to put it away and I won't!" It was a weekend I'll never forget, cuddled up on my recliner, with my burritos on my lap and my twins stirring inside me, waiting for their day to meet the world.

...that my mom took care of the toddler for four days and nights as John accompanied me in the hospital while I recovered after the C-section...

...that the twins were delivered in perfect condition...

...that I have a toy all three babies enjoy...

...that I found the perfect "triple" stroller, one that will seat two carseats or babies, with a platform on the back where the toddler can sit or stand. You can't imagine how many times those wheels have rolled over these pot-holed roads here in our small Mexican town...

...that my mom has these really cool metal golden goblets, that are like fifty years old, literally, and when you drink milk from them, somehow, it seems so, so good and cold. It's such a treat...

...that the eight-year-old boy can find such happiness in doing this...(He has been begging me to blog this for months now.)

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