More Gratitude Catch-Up

December is now upon us; Thanksgiving has come and gone.  I've been negligent in my blog posting, but just FYI, here's the rest of my November Gratitude List:

Gratitude Day 20:  I'm grateful for clean water.

Gratitude Day 21:  I'm grateful for fruits and veggies!

Gratitude Day 22:  I'm grateful for bread, peanut butter and milk!

Gratitude Day 23:  I'm grateful for pie! What's your favorite pie?  (I ended up making Pumpkin, Rhubarb, French Silk Chocolate, and Chocolate Chip.  It is now all gone.)


Gratitude Day 24:  I'm grateful for a day dedicated to gratitude and spending time with loved ones.

Gratitude Day 25:  I'm grateful for leaves to rake to work off some of the extra pie.


Gratitude Day 26:  I'm grateful for the courage and example of others. They give me strenth and hope.


Gratitude Day 27:  I'm grateful for Christmas music!

Gratitude Day 28:  I'm grateful for a warm home and bed.

Gratitude Day 29:  I'm grateful for public education and dedicated educators.


Gratitude Day 30:  I'm grateful for our source of light: the sun and The Son.

One of my facebook friends asked if I planned to continue on with my daily gratitude posts.  The original plan of this blog was to regularly post about the good things in my life.  Some days I have to remind myself to look for the good things in life. :)  So, even though it is now December 1st:

Gratitude Day 31:I'm grateful for fresh air! (the cold wind our area is now experiencing is good for something)

What are you grateful for?

One of my favorite bloggers shared an extensive gratitude list over three posts last week.  You can read it here and here and here.



It is not happy people who are thankful, it is thankful people who are happy.

Gratitude Catch Up

Gratitude Day 16: I'm grateful for hand lotion and Chapstick and Burts Bees!
Gratitude Day 17: I'm grateful for the beauties of the earth.
Gratitude Day 18: I'm grateful for wonderful, faithful, hardworking husbands, especially mine!
Gratitude Day 19:  I'm grateful for books and for libraries!
 
What are you grateful for?

Gratitude Day 15

I'm Grateful for spices and seasonings, in cooking and in life.

Gratitude Day 14

I'm grateful for Homemade Applesauce!

Gratitude Day 13

"Yea, teach parents that they must repent and be baptized and humble themselves as their little children, and they shall all be saved with their little children. . . . And I am filled with charity, which is everlasting love; wherefore, all children are alike unto me; wherefore, I love little children with a perfect love; . . ."

----Moroni 8:8, 17

Today in church we had our Primary Sacrament Meeting Program where the children are the speakers and provide the music for the entire service.  As usual it was excellent.  I'm grateful to be a teacher of young children.  They continually amaze me.  They are such strong, intelligent individuals. 


I miss having little children in the house. I love my children, who are my friends, and I love the wonderful people that they are becoming. But I do miss the days when they were small and I had them home with me all of the time. I know that I don’t remember all of the sameness of long days of cleaning and dishes and diapers and fighting and whining, and crying and missing adult conversation and reading the same stories again and again when I was almost asleep. I do miss their cute huggableness, the teaching moments, the singing (they all did love to sing at one time!), the piano lessons, the swimming lessons, the picnics with pinkabutter samiches and toe toe pits and yummy aide. I miss them loving to clean and wash dishes and fold clothes and plant gardens.  I miss joy school and primary and nursery, and bedtime and stories. I miss tiny newborn freshness sleeping in tired arms. I even miss the legos and the barbies and the green blob. There is absolutely nothing in this world like little children.
Here are a few more of my favorite scriptures about children:

And again I say unto you, ye must repent, and be baptized in my name, and become as a little child, or ye can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God.


3 Nephi 11:38


And when he had said these words, he wept, and the multitude bare record of it, and he took their little children, one by one, and blessed them, and prayed unto the Father for them. And when he had done this he wept again; And he spake unto the multitude, and said unto them: Behold your little ones. And as they looked to behold they cast their eyes towards heaven, and they saw the heavens open, and they saw angels descending out of heaven as it were in the midst of fire; and they came down and encircled those little ones about, and they were encircled about with fire; and the angels did minister unto them.

3 Nephi 17:21-24



And it came to pass that he did teach and minister unto the children of the multitude of whom hath been spoken, and he did loose their tongues, and they did speak unto their fathers great and marvelous things, even greater than he had revealed unto the people; and he loosed their tongues that they could utter.

3 Nephi 26:14


Behold I say unto you that this thing shall ye teach—repentance and baptism unto those who are accountable and capable of committing sin; yea, teach parents that they must repent and be baptized, and humble themselves as their little bchildren, and they shall all be saved with their little children.  And their little children need no repentance, neither baptism. Behold, baptism is unto repentance to the fulfilling the commandments unto the remission of sins.  But little children are alive in Christ, even from the foundation of the world; if not so, God is a partial God, and also a changeable God, and a respecter to persons; for how many little children have died without baptism!

Moroni 6:10-12

Gratitude Day 12: My Parents

Gratitude Day 12: I'm very grateful for my parents and that they could spend some time with us this weekend.

Gratitude: Day 11 Veterans

Day 11:  I  am grateful to my Dad, my Grandfather, Uncles

 and all of the many others who have faithfully served to defend this great country.

Happy Veteran's Day!