1. I’m grateful for the visitor we had yesterday. It was lovely to hear about another planner on the journey to parenting.
2. I’m grateful that my joints do not hurt any more. Apparently my new early warning sign for my period is that all of the joints in my body explode with pain–the pain started the day before the bleeding. By day four of my period the pain goes away.
3. I’m grateful that my house is clean. It makes it a lot easier to be patient. And I hadn’t vacuumed the garage in months. Go me.
4. I am grateful that I have not one but two upcoming camping trips because I simply know too many neat people.
5. I am grateful that despite the evil voices in my head telling me that everyone in the world hates me and I am bad and I should die… clearly people keep coming over. I can’t be the Anti-Christ because I’m not quite that popular. I’m a nice healthy in the middle kind of popular. I have a few friends. That’s a good level.
6. I am grateful for how hard my husband works. I have a lot of self-involved very expensive dreams for the future. Most people in the world will never have enough money to do the things I want to do. I will because of someone else’s labor. That is humbling and kind of awkward. I don’t deserve any of the money I will have access to. It will just be there. Privilege is weird.
7. I am grateful for having two children. They astound and delight me in different ways. I’m glad I get to see more than one way of being a child. I totally understand the impulse towards having lots of children. I rather wish I could see more little pieces-of-me.
8. I am grateful that my husband stated his boundaries quite clearly and went straight on to the vasectomy when he was sure he was done having kids. Or I’d be begging. Pleeeeeeeeease one more baby. I don’t have a son…. Sometimes that is life, lady.
9. I am grateful for the rain. Rain means life.
10. I am grateful for the variety of people in my life. I know good Christians and I know sex workers. I know good Muslims and I know Adult Babies. I know from personal experience that the kind and variety of people in the world is dizzying and intoxicating and wonderful. I am very lucky.