grateful for...........

-paid sick leave. still strugglin'

-vaseline! note: i never had vaseline in my house until i had a baby. for some reason, people give you a LOT of vaseline when you're pregnant. and, if you're like my mom, you keep that vaseline until your babies go to college. (HA! sorry mom! :)) now, i still don't get this because after about the first week of life, i never used vaseline on my kid for any purpose. one day, i got the notion to slather a bit of it on my super chapped lips and WOW. just WOW. best. ever. no one told me! it makes your lips shiny, gets the chap out, and, somehow makes them all rosy (probably my body rejecting the high amounts of petroleum i just ate by wearing petroleum jelly on my mouth, hmmm...........) so there you go, my new discovery.

-amazing husband, amazing friends, and both our amazing families.

-2 bathrooms in our house (water damage in our downstairs bath, now needs to be totally redone, new floor, new tub, etc.... i WILL focus on the positive, i WILL focus on the positive, i WILL focus on the positive......................i WILL need to locate a money tree and plant it.)

-book in the mail from amazon