Thankful Thursday & Favorite Things

It's Thankful Thursday! and since that hop is tiny, I'm combing that with Favorite Things. I'm going to be posting what I'm thankful for on Thursdays, and one favorite thing that I'd like to share with you.
 What a great way to round up the week, being reminded of all the ways we are blessed!  

I'm grateful for my children's good health. Yesterday, my rambunctious daughter decided that hopping onto the side of the tub might be fun. She found out it was, indeed, not fun. She smacked her head into the wall.

Thankfully, her ear padded her skull and the only real casualty was her exuberance. My normally sunny girl, was decidedly sad for the rest of the night.   As I look back over the course of their lives, I can see that both my kids have pretty much steered clear of the emergency room, and have robust immune systems. I'm very, very thankful!

I'm grateful for financial security. I have made the choice to be a "stay-at-home" Mom for nearly all my children's lives, and some days caring for my disabled aunt. More recently, in the past year, I was blessed with the opportunity to become a Boresha distributor, sharing the blessings of weight loss and better health with others, and starting to earn a good income from that now. 

I'm grateful for my parent's good health.  I lost my father this year, so the reality of that loss, only increases my joy, at seeing my Mom and Step-Dad regaining their health.  My Mom lost 40 lbs. using the fat burning tea, and her doctor took her off the diabetes medications, she'd been on for 17 years.  I feel down deep in my heart, that this change in her health will mean having her with us, for so many more years than we would have, had her health continued the way it was going.

I'm grateful for a functioning car. My sister-in-law, who has three kids, ended up with no car. So my husband loaned her his car. That can be an inconvenience at times, but compared with having no car, it's nothing. I'm grateful we had one to spare, until she can get transportation again. 

I'm grateful for this cool weather we have been having this week, and all the rain, that was badly needed.

I'm grateful for  good friends who keep in touch, pitch in, or just let us know they are thinking of us, even though all our lives are busy.  I'm also grateful for so many new friends, that I've made as a result of my business and blogging. You have opened up my life! Thank you!

For Favorite Things, I'm going to have to recommend a blogger, Jason Good. He consistently gives me deep belly laughs.  http://jasongood.net/  I'm  thankful for writers who make me laugh.

I'm thankful for blog hops because they let a "stay-at-home" mom reach out to so many great people, that I otherwise would never have met. Off to hop!