Counting My Blessings

The suggestion for Day 4 of the Writing Bliss/Daily Writes course is writing down all the blessings that have come my way, be they large or small in the past week. Then spend 10 minutes free-writing about the best blessing.

So...what have my blessings been this week?
1. FIL let me use his truck to go look for work (I was gone about 4 hours and put quite a few miles on the truck).
2. Mamaw has let us borrow a cup of sugar, spaghetti, you name it, this week.
3. We had a nice family walk yesterday.
4. I cleared some air with my DH (see previous entry).
5. I am blessed that we are the kind of people that talk things out rather than fight them out.
6. My 2 year old daughter finally let me comb/brush her hair to the point that she stopped struggling and found out maybe it wasn't so bad after all!
7. I didn't wreck FIL's truck while I was out.
8. I put in applications at a plastics factory, updated an app at Walmart, put more in at Dollar Tree, Subway and a temp-agency.
9. I didn't argue with the folks when they told me they needed a copy of my HIGH SCHOOL diploma in order to register with them. (I graduated in 1979.) I may need to dig into a hermetically sealed mayonnaise jar under the porch for that one. Sorry...Johnny Carson moment.
10. I have not lost my sense of humor.
11. My tangled mass of hair seems like it is finally loosening and lessening and it looks like I will not have to cut it. (As stated previously it would necessitate turning top-of-thigh-length hair into a pixie cut.
12. Chris used Mamaw's sander-massager on me without my asking him to! We call it sander-massager because it looks like a heavy-duty tool that you bear down on with both hands and it feels so good!
13. My stress has overall been better.
14. Homeschool on Monday went well! I think it's the best it's ever gone for me.
15. I was able to take all 3 children to church and not run from the building in shame. :)
16. Perhaps this would be a good point to say I have 3 wonderful blessings in my children.
17. Brian is/can be considerate, caring and super-intelligent.
18. Benjamin is very loving and concerned with being a "good boy".
19. Trinity is my harbor chick...a reference to the line from Ghostbusters II. Very few of the spills she takes (she's 2) seem to have any effect on her. She bounces back quite easily. Now all she needs is a little leather and black sunglasses and she'll could be in a "Bad to the Bone" video. *LOL*
20. Trinity can now drive the John Deere 4-wheeler Papaw got for the kids by herself.
21. We have a roof over our head.
22. We have heat.
23. We have enough food.
24. I have some wonderful online friends who are sustaining me with their prayers.
25. I had a good time at a Bible Study at the Church of God on Wednesday night last week. It had been one of those days and I just needed some time out of my usual surroundings. I went back refreshed.
26. FIL made us a GREAT breakfast on Sunday before we went to church.
27. Mamaw and FIL's wife have said they need to get back to church.
28. I found my way around fairly easily today.

I think the biggest blessing I had this week was clearing some air with my DH. He was upset about some previous posts I had made in this blog. He felt they were character-assassinating. I expressed concern over a card he had received from a supposedly lesbian friend of his. I say supposedly because I told him that I did not believe she was...and that I objected to her sending him that card. For the first time I feel like he acknowledged my feelings instead of just saying that they weren't correct. That means a lot to me. I know a lot of people will find it hokey, but when I married, I promised not only DH, but also God that I was in the marriage for "better or worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and health". Well, sometimes things are "worse", sometimes they are "poorer", sometimes they are in "sickness"...maybe a lot of the time. Let's face it, life and relationships sometimes suck. But I believe it is the rough times that let us appreciate the good times. Sorry, DS1 came by to use the bathroom and has congestiion He wanted some nasal spray but we don't have any right now. Back to the blessing stuff. :D My ten minutes is not up yet.

So what are the good things about my husband?

He is a caring father. He would do anything for the good of his children. He is way involved in their lives. He teaches them in the homeschool when I cannot, either due to working or being overwhelmed.

He and I are good complements of each other. Where one is weak, the other is strong and vice versa.

He is exceptionally smart, moreso than he gives himself credit for (awkward grammer there).

He sent me a sweetest day card that said he loved me and believed in me...and it made me cry it was so thoughtful (I'm guessing this was sent before he read the blog, but I'm also guessing that I will hear from him within a day or so whether that was the case.)

There are not the only good qualities he has. I will have to do a 2nd part to his post at some point. :D And I'm not just kissing up, either.

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