Grateful Heart

I have been participating in the 30 days of a grateful heart challenge posed by the wonderful, Jote.  Today is day 6.

Today, I am grateful for my beautiful girl.  She is growing into such an amazing, compassionate and generous human being.

Today was the first day of her school Holiday Shoppe.  She is scheduled to shop on Thursday, but I know the inventory will be iffy by then, at best, so I took her this afternoon after school.  She wandered through and found gifts for her grandparents, her brother, Chrys and me.  Not once did she ask to buy something for herself.  All day long, I had seen other kids come through and buy things for other people and always they set aside something for themselves.

She admired the ice cream erasers, but when the time came, walked away and bought only for others.  I am constantly in awe of her generosity.  I am truly honored and eternally grateful that she chose me to be her mom.

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This year has been a struggle for her with regards to Christmas.  This is the first year she really hasn't wanted anything.  Sure, there are things that she would like from others, but nothing that she wants so much that it has made it to a request from Santa.  Chrys and I are trying to come up with anything and the Santas that she's talked to have promised to come up with a wonderful surprise for her.  I fear disappointing her, even though I don't think she really cares.

Maybe a charm for the bracelet she bought herself at the Girl Scout store.  Definitely some ice cream erasers in her stocking.

1st place

Ryanne just scored first place in Mario Kart for the 1st time! She was so excited.

She also won an award for a photo she submitted to the PTA Reflections contest. She titled it "Together We Can Play". The theme was "Together We Can...".

Conversations with the tired

From the bath...
Where's dad?
Going potty.
Why?
Do you really want to know why dad's going potty?
Uhhh. Nevermind.


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On punctuation

"Our way beats their way. If you don't agree, it's Free."

Mommy, there should be an exclamation point at the end of that. It's exciting. "It's free!" This way, it looks sad. There's no excitement. It's boring. "It's free. *sigh*"

I have to agree.


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Another exciting meal

Ryanne is now down a 5th tooth. Go Macaroni Grill croutons! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone