Grateful

The Sunday after Thanksgiving my cute niece and her husband visited on their way back to Austin.  It was great to have them, especially since I have grandchildren the ages of Emily and Brett's children.  Violet loved having some girls to play with, since her cousins were out of town.  At church the speaker was giving a talk on gratitude, and asked each of us to think of what we were grateful for.  The little girls spent most of the meeting kneeling by their chairs, coloring and giggling.  They kept bringing me some post-it notes with words written on them.  I didn't care that they weren't paying attention, because they were entertaining themselves.  It wasn't until after the meeting that I looked at the notes, surprised to discover that they indeed had been listening.  Here is their list:

1. fruit

2. plans

3. family

4. my mom and dad

5. water

6.  my body

7. my bruther and sistere

8.  the skeripshers

9.  freinds

10.  grand parints

11. door

12.  my hair

13.  my eyes

14.  my mathf

15.  my nows

16.  my leg

17.  my ers

18.  my tows

19.  my jolry

20.  dror

21.  butrfliys

22 tents

23  frosin

24.  techers

25  stop siyns

26  stors

27 sporkols

28 jolls

29  the erth

30  flawrs

31 pecocs

32  snowflaks

33 fethrs

They ran off to Primary and Emily and I had to laugh at their list.  They were trying to make it to 100 items before the meeting ended.  We seriously underestimate our kids!

I am grateful for children!