Sunday Gratitude – 26.I.2025

I certainly haven’t been praying here as much as I should have, but it looks like there might finally be a good outcome in the “Save James” case: https://globaloccurrences.substack.com/p/trump-will-save-my-son . (I’ve written about Jeff Younger here as well.) I haven’t heard anything besides what Younger has posted, but it makes me cautiously optimistic, and if it’s true, it’s a huge thing to be grateful for.

As for things a little closer to home, it’s been a fairly quiet week. The kids had Monday off and then both schools called off for bitterly cold weather, so it ended up being a very short school week. To that end, I’m grateful that it meant that I didn’t have to be driving them around on those days.

I’m grateful to be able to be working on another section of the project which is “the house”. It’s a tough slog that seems never-ending, but in getting the first big “shift” done, it’s made three kids extremely happy and relaxed the overall vibe quite a bit. I’m grateful for every time my 4-year-old comes over to me after she’s cooked me (play) food on the kitchen set that’s now accessible to her.

I’m grateful that we’re getting through the winter without any major things – no major sicknesses or disasters or anything. Every once in awhile, I catch myself maybe being a bit too aggressive on the driving, and I am thankful that it’s all turned out okay. I’m also thankful for the reminder to try to stay off auto-pilot when I’m driving.

I am thankful that I found where the really bad smell in the front hallway was coming from. I will spare you the gory details, but I didn’t see something at the bottom of a box of groceries I brought in, and it was making half the downstairs smell bad. Part of me just thought it could have been really strong stale shoe smell or something, but it wasn’t. I found what it actually was, and not only could it have been much, much worse, I found it on the day the trash goes out, before the truck had made it to our house, so I didn’t even have to worry about the potential of it being something that might attract a hungry animal by leaving it outside.

I am thankful for every day of this life, no matter how hard some of them are, and how much I can squander the time.

I am grateful for all of you who read, subscribe, & comment!

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