1,000 Things to be Thankful For

I was visiting over at Connie's last night and she is doing 1000 things to be thankful for by Thanksgiving so I have excepted her challenge to see if I can do the same thing. Even though I am thankful for an awful lot of people and things 1000 is an awful lot to come up with so I hope I can make it. And even on my down days it should give me something to look at and be thankful for and be happy about. I only have 12 days to do it so that would be about 84 things a day. And these aren't in any special order, just as they come to my head because if they had to be in a special order of importance I would be constantly having to go back and change the number of something.

1. Jerry (my hubby)
2. Michael (my oldest son)
3. Matt (my baby boy)
4. Lacy (my only girl)
5. my new house
6. my neighbors
7. my best friend Susan
8. my e-mail friends
9. my sister Sharon
10. my mother
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11. my dad
12. my nephews
13. my son Michael's girlfriend Christy (his future wife)
14. being married to a wonderful guy for 24 years
15. being lucky enough to pick the right guy the first time
16. my friends from the GA porch
17. my friend Barbara from CA
18. being able to always be a stay at home mom (even when the money was tight sometimes)
19. being able to cook Thanksgiving dinner
20. being able to stay home this Christmas
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21. my 4 cats
22. my counselor Ellyn (cause she helps me see things in a different light)
23. my fireplace that we will be burning this winter
24. food in my fridge and pantry
25. Jerry working for IBM, a really good company to work for
26. Michael having a job as a Tech. for the school district where he graduated high school
27. Matt doing so excellent in high school
28. Michael doing so excellent in college
29. Having 3 kids that really love me
30. The box of pecan caramel candy sitting on my desk that I take one from every day
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31. The fact that God has hung in there with me through some tough stuff and hasn't given up
32. The belief that my kids are generally happy kids and have had a happy life so far
33. That my taxes are paid for this year
34. That the developers wanted our property bad enough to give us what we were asking
35. The memories of my great grandmother who loved me more than life
36. My step mother in law Ruby, a wonderful, loving, kind lady
37. The person who invented Pizza and the fact that you can go buy a large one for $5.00
38. Oh yea, for my computer
39. The fact I have 3 people living in my house that can fix my puter no matter what I do to it.
40. My father-in-law Linton even though he is in heaven now
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41. The fact we all had time to say good bye to him and let him know we loved him
42. Knowing Jerry loves me and always calls me Baby
43. Jerry doing the dishes for me last night
44. Cook books because I love to cook and try new things
45. Not having any really pickey eaters
46. wood for the fireplace now that is is getting colder outside (48 degrees right now)
47. watching the leaves fall from the trees and dance around the yard
48. rakes so we can make piles of leaves to jump in before we clean them up
49. having a GBI agent live next door to me (makes me feel safe)
50. having friends that send me funny e-mail jokes
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51. nice warm blankets for these cold days
52. nice warm robes also
53. my TV so I can watch the Falcons and Sunday football
54. coffee to wake me up in the morning
55. living in town again, I so love where we live
56. the fact that I have 3 healthy kids
57. Matt's laugh, it is one of those laughs that can always make me laugh
58. Michael's kindness, he is the most kind person I know
59. Lacy's strong will, it is a challenge now (for me) but will help her in life (I think)
60. Thanksgiving--the time for family to be together and eat, talk, laugh and watch football
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61. The fact I have nearly half my Christmas shopping done
62. The fact that Jerry works from home (telecommutes) cause I love having him here
63. My mother-in-law Margie
64. That the Cowboys won today
65. That Lacy is getting off her crutches tomorrow
66. That Jerry gets paid Wednesday
67. That my check from the insurance company finally came in
68. The new corn casserole recipe I fixed tonight that was really good
69. The fact that we have a brand new box of kleenex cause my nose won't stop running
70. That I can go to bed when I come up with 14 more things to be thankful for
71. That Lacy rides the bus to school in the morning so after breakfast I can go back to bed
72. That I got most of my laundry done today
73. That Jerry and not me has to give the cats a bath tomorrow
74. That my neighbor gave me some Amish Friendship Bread batter yesterday
75. That someone (?) posted about this really cute gingerbread cookie basket for Christmas
76. That gas prices have come down some
77. That Michael just got his car paid off this month
78. That my life isn't near as chaotic as my friend Debbie's always is
79. That I don't need chaotos in my life to be happy
80. That I understand and except my childhood now better than ever before
81. That I have my budget made out for Christmas
82. That I have bought all my Christmas cards and have half of them addressed
83. That we got the candle wax out of the carpet and just have a little red stain left
84. That I only have 916 more things to come up with that I am thankful for

Good night every one, reckon you are all in bed by now. Didn't get many blogs read today with all the football so will catch up with everyone tomorrow.