Thankful

It's the day after the day after Thanksgiving.  And despite that yesterday felt rather Groundhog-day ish: cat that has some sort of urinary track thing going on (so maybe a trip to the vet's today for antibiotics) and a feverish kid.  That has been my life for 10 days.  Ay yi yi.  And the physics project that has taken over our lives and our dining room table:  the pasta bridge. There is gorilla glue, rubber gloves, fettuccine and wax paper covering the table.

So thank God for S helping her with that all consuming project.  I'm not sure it needs to be such a production-but she'll get a good grade, and more importantly she'll remember how much time and care her dad took with her.  A great example of love and devotion.

And thank God for S with helping with A.  He's been taking his temperature, gave him his medicines, charging his iPad.

And how nice was it to go shopping at TJ Maxx and basically pick up whatever we wanted: a gray cashmere sweater to replace that old gray Costco sweater that just depresses me, and some clothes for B for Hanukkah, and some shirts for S.

And what else am I feeling grateful for?  Reading over the "Gratitude Turkey Feathers/Leaves" that I'd made up for the kids several years ago with G.  That was a really wonderful thing to see things that each of them felt grateful for-from the beach, to G for making them laugh, and for how hard their dad works for all of us.