Tuesday, December 16, 2014

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!