Thankful Thursday

1. The feeling you get when you clean out a closet and purge a bunch of stuff.

I just got a notice that ARC is going to be doing a drive-by pickup of donation items, so I thought it would be a great opportunity to clean out the closets and drawers in my house and purge a bunch of stuff that I wasn't using....and it goes to a great cause.

Well, not only do I love the extra space in my closets and drawers, it just gives me such a great feeling to get rid of stuff and also help people at the same time. Hurray for cleaning!

2. Doing something I know my Dad is watching from Heaven, and knowing he is proud of me.

My Dad could fix anything, so growing up I never had to fix a thing. That was both a blessing and a curse. I had a great resource in my Dad and all of his mechanical knowledge.......but now that I have a house of my own and I'm an adult, he's not here to fix it for me and I also don't know how to do it for myself. Ugh.

So when I conquer a mechanical problem or "opportunity," I find that when I succeed, it is a HUGE MASSIVE victory for me and that my Dad is smiling from Heaven and patting my back and saying "Job well done, Laur." That feeling is priceless.

3. The resiliance of petunias.

Like I have mentioned in many other posts, I do not have a green thumb naturally. I happen to have found the perfect flower for those of us that have to work at keeping things alive. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the WAVE PETUNIA! I love mine and it's the second year in a row that I have successfully kept one alive. They grow very easily, they come in very bold pretty colors, and they can take the abuse of strong Texas winds, extreme heat and sun and sporatic waterings. They are fantastic and beautiful!!

4. Being totally enthralled in a book.

I haven't done much pleasure reading in the last couple years, but I have a bunch of books piling up and I am engrossed in the first of many. It's called Ransom and it's by Danielle Steele - I'm hooked already! I forgot how much I love to read. It is looking like I'm going to have lots of reading material for the pool this summer. YAY!

5. Traffic being lighter in the summer now that schools are letting out!

I drive 20 miles each way to work every day and so traffic has become a regular part of my life in Texas. I wanted to live in a big city, well then I have to deal with big city traffic, right? Well, I think God wanted to give me a little break (to make up for the insane summer heat), so he made traffic a lot lighter in the summer when schools are shut down. YES!