thankful thursday november

today has been the pits.

i don't write that very often, do i? haha. 

but the beauty of a crumby day is the constant opportunity to turn it all around...change your mind...or at the least, put it into perspective. it could always, always, be worse.

today i'm thankful for the scattered toys and tiny boy messes every which way i turn. my son is healthy...happy...imaginative. he is at home here. it's a comforting mess to trip over. 

i'm thankful for the quiet of the afternoon. for the chance to regroup...rest my mind...and avoid work under a blanket fort with season one 30 rock reruns.

and here's the thing...

the crumbs are blessings. they make the good things look just that much shinier.

they're reminders that we still have some tweaking to do, patience to gain, skills to learn.

today i'm thankful for the crumbs.

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link up in the comments below with your thankful november thoughts and stories! 

they have been making my november weeks!

thankful thursday november

 it's a rarity to find someone that forces you to better. even rarer when they make you want to be better all on your own. 

and then you sit back in awe as life and opportunities and fine people and goodness abound and each tiny bit can be traced back directly to the day you met that one person that changed you.

i was thinking about that this morning.

i was thinking about my matt...and feeling so very thankful for the patience and space we're given in life to be better...to grow...to uproot and replant, even if it's slow and painful and we drag our feet a bit.

 

i'm thankful for the knowledge that even the smallest and simplest of lives deserve to be great...that we get to work on it every single day.

 and i'm oh so thankful for those catalyst people in my life that remind me everyday...

but my, oh my, how lucky that one of them is the guy i'm head over heels for!

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if you're doing a thankful post this week, link it below in the comments so we can all read along! 

(photos by jenny haas.)

thankful thursday november

i love november and its promise of holidays near and turning weather!

its the sneaking up of a closing year and a chance to count up blessings...to put words to thankful thoughts.    

today i'm thankful for the quiet rain and falling leaves, busy hands and a clear mind. for matt finding plastic mistletoe and following me around the house with it.

i'm thankful for my max slipping into bed with me this morning...for the moment when he asked me to tuck his shirt in extra tight before school...for that one last glance he gave me as he walked into his classroom.

i'm thankful for the tiny, good, and happy moments that can define a day. a month. a year. 

they are many and many. 

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come join me for thankful thursdays this month!

and be sure to add a link to your list or thoughts or stories so i can read along!

p.s. the picture above is from a little photo shoot max and i did for the next volume of kinfolk!

i'll share more about it in the coming weeks...but for now...i'm pleased as punch to be contributing!