Gasp! I Wrote on Someone Else's Blog!

It's me again . . .I have had a great opportunity to write over at Healthy Moms. If you want to see some of my parenting articles over there then head on over to Healthy Moms.

I most recently wrote on our newly created House Rules.

But in the past some of my blog post titles have included:

• Parenting in Community with Others
  
• You Want Me to Wear What for Nine Months?
• You are a Bricklayer
  
• House Rules, Writing them on the Tablet of your House
  
• House Rules Completed
• Caught-Ya! My Anger Management Plan
• Sticker Charts Aren't Just for Kids

30 Days of Thanks: Day 1

Connie, over at From the Heart of My "Haus" is celebrating 30 days of Thanks during the month of November.

I think it is a great idea and you should join her/me in practicing gratitude. I even made you a little picture that you can copy and paste the code from my sidebar into each of your posts . . . or even the emails that you send out.

• that's a great idea . . . if you don't blog, send out a daily Thankful Email . . . Be sure to include me, thegranolamom4god at gmail dot com.
  
• or just write down what you are thankful for in a journal.

But please do visit Connie, and leave a comment, because she started all of this! I don't want to steal her thunder, but give her the credit and idea that God placed on her heart!

My friend, Beth, also does a gratitude post every Friday with a list of 10 things that she is thankful for. I LOVE reading it each week! (That is why I have included 10 things that I am thankful for.)

November 1:

1. I am thankful for Mr. Smackdown, who is sitting beside me right now. He is watching football with his daddy, and just saw an advertisement for a juicy hamburger from Burger King. Wanting a hamburger myself, since early this morning and in preparation of getting serious tomorrow about losing weight for our anniversary trip (oh, and for the glory of God--thanks Lord's Table), I asked Mr. Smackdown if he would eat a Steak-n-Shake hamburger (because that is what I really want to eat). He replied, "If it doesn't have any meat on it." Silly boy--that would defeat the purpose.
   
2. The Hottie Hubby made my chai for me this morning and brought it up to me while I was getting ready for church.
3. All of our leaves are raked (for the time being) and in the compost pile. I loved that my engineering husband created a fence barrier to contain the leaves so that they wouldn't blow into our neighbor's yard.
4. I'm thankful for the mental picture I captured of the Hottie Hubby taking a nap with Mr. Smackdown and Mr. Me-Too.
5. I love how Mr. Smiley signs thank you, while saying it with his mouth closed.
6. I am grateful for Julie who suggested we use DryBee's Fleece Nighttime diaper. I know this sounds silly, but you have no idea how this has helped our night time cloth diapering delima.
7. I'm thankful for all of the comments I received on the post I wrote over at Healthy Moms.
8. I am grateful for our new fish, Nemo, that the boys won at the Harvest Festival at our church.
9. I am delighted at how much the boys enjoyed sharing the love of Jesus last night to those who came to our door.
10. I am very grateful to God for keeping us healthy and daily providing all of our needs.