Day 5-9

Day 5 - I am thankful for Ava sleeping longer at nights. The time change was perfect timing to move her bed time up without her really knowing it and the best part is she still is waking up at her regular 7:15 time. (I should make a disclaimer she is still most nights waking up once to nurse but still, so thankful for the extended sleep time!)

Day 6 - I am thankful for books. I should post a picture of my night stand. I usually alternating between about 3 books at time. I get so excited I can't decide which one to start with so I start going back and forth between multiple ones. I didn't love books till after college and graduate school, I had been in school every year for 18 years straight at that point and when no one made me read anymore I feel in love with it!

Day 7- Happy hour at sonic. The genius design of those cups are like mini-coolers. They ice stays good in there for hours! I need not say more about the wonderful pick me up of sugar and caffeine at half prices in the late afternoon.

Day 8- people who do whatever job they have with joy and kindness. There use to be a little ceaser man that for over year I could see out my window at work every day. He held his little cesar pizza sign with the most energy and enthusisam, he would bring his ear phones everyday and play his sign like a guitar, lip singing for hours. I miss him. I knew he would go on to greater things with that work ethic but I still love it when I see it in others and I think to myself now thats like playing your air guitar with your little cesar's sign.

Day 9 - I am thankful for my Tuesday lunch bunch. I eat lunch every Tuesday with some great gal pals. The lunch bunch started when we all worked together in the same office and now that I the only one still at the office the weekly get together carries on, It has been meeting for over two years now. In fact when Ava was born, it was Tuesday at lunch time, the lunch bunch didn't miss a beat they were there to meet Ava at our regular time. These girls I can bounce anything off of and they give me honest feedback, uplift me spiritually and are the best listeners (they can't help it, they're therapists!).