1. My camera
2. My days to play with my camera
3. Nice families I have met through my camera
4. Taking a decent photo once in awhile
5. Finding the time to edit photos
6. The ability to hope and dream about nice-ities (which brings me to being grateful for having what I need!)
7. All the funniness that comes out of my child’s mouth.
8. Snuggle time with Oliver
9. sleeping in occasionally
10. Non-rainy days. Wish I could send some of the rainy ones to my Aunt in California.
11. Happy Plants in my home, especially the bug eating ones that are earning their keep
12. heat in my jeep this year (first time in three years!)
13. a husband who supports my desire to take art classes
14. my water color class. Talented artist and teacher here. How lucky am I that I met him through school AND he’s local.
15. ART
16. Good music
17. Having enough to be able to give
18. KLEENEX
19. Contacts – I can see so much better than in glasses
20. A good infectious laugh.

The thing that I am MOST grateful for every day is my fabulous family. And especially for Oliver who entertains the hell out of me every day. So today’s list is HIS.

Oliver’s gratitude list:
1. my family
2. the things I have
3. playing with my family
4. seeing Andy and Jeremy
5. my friends
6. my teacher [I'm ever so grateful for her as well!!!]
7. the good foods
8. a snuggly bed
9. my stuffed animals
10. art supplies
11. books
12. my house
13. fun playdates
14. learning
15. being funny
16. watching shows
17. singing songs (I’m too embarassed to write “shake my booty”) yes, mean mother posts anyway
18. Earth Day
19. crafts
20. PanaHouse (that would be Panera to all of you who are not so tight with the establishment….)

I was kind of thinking that Oliver’s list would be more entertaining since he is so funny at all times. But he’s also a very thoughtful little boy and he took this list pretty seriously. And that’s an admirable quality. Tomorrow I’ll do my own list. Feel free to participate along. If you want to leave a comment with your website listed, people can link in from there. You can follow the rules exactly, or not. I’m not much of a rule follower, so I’ll probably be pretty loosey goosey about it myself. Thanks for playing along!