Gratitude

In sixth grade or so, one of my friends gave me a gratitude journal. It was a tiny notebook with a quote by Oprah glued into the front cover, talking about how daily listing what we are grateful for will help us to be happier.


And for my 100th post, I will try to list 100 things I am grateful for. Feel free to skim, glance, or skip this list. This one's just for me.


In no particular order...

1. Kevin Fisher
2. Toby Fisher
3. Howie Fisher
4. My young women
5. My sewing machine
6. Clean, warm laundry fresh from the drier
7. Afternoon thundershowers in New Mexico
8. Green chile
9. Education: past, present, and future
10. The Holy Ghost
11. Beautiful, well-written books (this could be a list in itself)
12. My mom
13. My dad
14. Compassion
15. Chapstick
16. Clean water
17. Freedom
18. Envelopes with the peel-off wax paper so you don't have to lick them
19. Wild sunflowers
20. My bike
21. My basket on my bike
22. Showers
23. Being sealed to Kevin
24. Two Good Things
25. My ESL students
26. Imaginations put to good use
27. Hollyhocks
28. Trust
29. My friends
30. My garden
31. Fabric stores
32. Ladybugs
33. Kevin singing to me
34. "Singing n the Rain"
35. Enchiladas
36. Songs I know the words to
37. Ward Choir
38. Clear winter nights when you can see the stars
39. Free air conditioning in the mornings
40. Free heat from the sun
41. Icicles
42. My family
43. Converse All-Stars
44. Facebook
45. My twin, Heidi
46. Kids squealing because they're having so much fun in the sprinkler
47. Quilts
48. Warm days when you sit in the shade and still feel warm--but not hot
49. Cute socks
50. My grandma
51. The rugs she taught me how to make
52. Everything she taught me how to do/make
53. My cute little cottage
54. Cottage cheese
55. Ben and Jerry's ice cream (Especially Phish Food, S'mores, and Oatmeal Cookie flavors)
56. Free dental cleanings
57. Public transportation (not in Provo, particularly, but in general)
58. Airplanes
59. Sunscreen
60. Cute tote bags so I don't have to use paper or plastic, and I look cuter when leaving the store
61. Pens that feel good when I write with them
62. Quail
63. My pianos
64. LAHS Topper Marching Band
65. Bear Camp
66. Fellow counselors at Bear Camp
67. Knowing how to cook so we don't have to eat out all the time
68. My clothes line
69. Modern medicine
70. Salmon
71. The church
72. The gospel
73. The potential in an uncut piece of cloth
74. Shady trees in front of my house
75. Squirt guns
76. My delete key
77. s 89
78. YUK
79. Howie, get off my keyboard!
80. Sincere complements from Kevin
81. All the cool accents people use when speaking English
82. English as a native language
83. Eyelashes that don't need mascara
84. An engagement ring with a story
85. The fact that arm hair is socially acceptable
86. Stargazer lillies
87. Supportive friends and community growing up
88. High school choir
89. Kevin helping me with yard work this morning
90. Sarah
91. Plants that my mom gave me
92. Confidence
93. Tampons
94. Los Alamos
95. Brownie mix
96. Nanjing Study Abroad program
97. Ella Fitzgerald and other jazz I can sing along with
98. Practice speaking Chinese at NuSkin
99. White Rock Ward
100. Opportunities to give

Wow! That took me 3 days of writing it to think of this many things. I have seriously been blessed with so many things to be thankful for.