grat-IT-ude

The month of November is the month of gratitude.  What are you grateful for?  Are you grateful for your health, your strength, your ability to love.  What are you grateful for?  the struggles, the triumphs, the doubt, the success.  the health and the strength to be your best self.

I am grateful for so much.

My family 

that i helped create, isn't it amazing that i found someone to love, and to love me too.  and now we have three little girls all because of that love.  being a mom is amazing.  and i'm so grateful that i get to experience all the highs and lows of motherhood.

my body,

 i love it, i  mostly hate it, but i am still grateful for it.  it helps me do all kinds of things.  run, jump, and last month i did a cart wheel and quincy and tenley screamed with pure excitement that their old mama could do a cartwheel.

i get to carry my baby with my two hands, i get to cook and clean.  i get to love and wrap my arms around my family as much as i want!

this body of mine, most days i'd like to turn it in for a new better upgraded model, but i am still grateful its mine, and works pretty well for the most part.

my mind.

  the mind is a powerful thing.  it can either help us achieve great things, or it can set us back and keep us in the dark dis pare of defeat.

my God.  my religion. 

i am proud to say i am a daughter of God.

that i belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

that i know my savior, that He loves me, that He cares for me and 

above all, that He hears and answers my prayers.

take some time today to remember what you are grateful for, it can be all the little things like my kitchen aid or mini van.  or the big things like your best friend, you kids, your heartache and you joys.  take a time for gratitude because you never know when you might not have what you really love.