Thankful

It is Sunday evening.  I'm sitting in my bedroom with the windows open and the sprinkler going in the garden.  The sun isn't quite down and you can hear the neighbors little girls giggling in the yard.
You can hear those cicada bugs, or whatever they are called, that you always here in fall.  And....Maggie is walking down the hall howling with some piece of dirty laundry from Alex's hamper. 
It was a good day today.  I had two really good weeks and then yesterday was sick with a flare and cried a lot of the day.  It's just what ya gotta do..
Taylor comes to visit this week.  I look forward to that.
I also look forward to Thanksgiving with my family.
God is Good!!!
I wish all the people on facebook who keep talking about the election would just take a break and enjoy what God has blessed them with for a minute.  It's so depressing seeing post after post. 
When I wake up in the morning and have my coffee on my messy front porch that needs repair, and the breeze is blowing and my swing is swinging, and even though I can't go out there without Kiki coming from across the property to sit on my lap while I swing....., I think, "Wow, we are so lucky".
What a waist of time it is to keep complaining all day every day.  I just don't want to go there anymore.  I don't have as many good days, as I would like, and I'm not wasting the ones I have.

I hope everyone has a great week.  Enjoy this precious time.
Hugs
shannon

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