Thankful Thursday

I almost nixed my Thankful Thursday post this evening. I'm tired. I'm grumpy, and have been all day. I'm cold. I can't muster up enough motivation to get ready for work tomorrow. I'm in need of much encouragement. I hope nobody needs anything from me the rest of the night, 'cause I got nothin' left to give. My no-sugar resolution went down in a big, fat, flaming ball of failure. I don't want to get into the ugly details, but Girl Scout cookies may or may not have been involved. Overall, it was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

However, I'm forcing myself to carry on with Thankful Thursday because God has blessed me beyond measure and deserves to be recognized. I'm declaring this pity party officially over.

Today I am thankful for . . .

• God's grace and love and guidance and forgiveness and patience . . . oh, His patience with me
• my family and friends
• my health, and hopefully some positive changes around the corner
• my job
• my students and the fact that they provide me with absolutely no opportunities to be lazy at work
• Monday morning prayer group
• Career Day tomorrow at school . . . much-needed day "off"
• fun plans of the rodeo variety for the end of the month
• my new perfume . . . still makes me happy
• warmer weather right around the corner
• a warm, cozy place to go to when I need to get out of this weather
• a car that gets me where I need to go when I want to go there
• living near enough to my family to visit on a whim
• getting to see the beautiful, untouched snow all over the hillsides and trees while driving to work this morning
• surprising the kiddos with a play-in-the-snow party at 8 AM
• some new readers to the ol' blog lately . . . I blog about things that interest me and often feel amazed that anyone else would want to read all this mess . . . glad to have ya, though!
• second chances (and third chances . . . thirteenth chances . . . millionth chances)
• the chance to celebrate my Mimi and Mama over the next week
• a fun science experiment planned for tomorrow . . . I'm boiling some red cabbage right now . . . did you know you can test the acidity/alkalinity of substances by mixing them with red cabbage juice? If you were in my class, you'd get to try it out tomorrow.
• getting to see this last night:

As much as I long for spring, I don't think I'll ever get tired of seeing snow pouring from the sky. This Alabama girl still thinks, "Oh my gosh, it's SNOWING!!!!" every time it comes down.
HAPPY WEEKEND,
 and here's to tomorrow being the polar opposite of terrible, horrible, no good, and very bad!