I'm grateful

Walked all the way home tonight (takes me 1.5hrs). Haven't done that in ages. Is one of the reasons why our gasoline consumption is up to 25% or so. Was so nice. And all of a sudden I just felt really grateful. So I spent some time as I was walking to think about the things that I was grateful for. Here they are in no particular order:

• mild fall evenings where the air is crisp and the sky is blue


• bumping into friends that I haven't seen in ages


• shortcuts


• the stranger that walked up to me and said "you have such a beautiful smile". Even though I wasn't smiling. And made me smile


• good music!


• brand new babies (we have one arriving in our extended friend family any time now. Perhaps as I type this. Can't wait to meet you little man. :) )