Grateful

I'm feeling particularly grateful today... Mostly because the last couple of weeks are over with!

 

First of all, our van had some problems over Christmas, which continued to get worse a few days afterward & ended up with us needing to replace the fuel pump, filter & be without a van for about 2 weeks.  So I'm grateful to have our van back again, instead of trying to squish our 3 kids into the back of the car.

We also had our heater not working for about a week earlier in the month.  Laron was determined to fix it himself, which he amazingly was able to accomplish after a couple of hours on the internet researching & then waiting for a couple of days for the part to come in.  Part of me was glad he was resourceful enough to save us the money to figure it out himself.  Part of me wished he would've just paid someone to come fix it, because I was the one stuck at home with cold kids wearing coats all day, watching them warm their hands up on our little electric heater. After spending one night at my Mom's house to keep warm (while Laron was working) & after a couple days of complaining, Laron finally went out and bought us a Kerosene heater, figuring that would also help us be more prepared for emergencies.  That kept us quite a bit warmer, but it put off some fumes, so we had to keep a window cracked open, which always made me a little nervous.  So I'm also especially grateful for a working heater this winter!  It's one of those automatic features in our lives that I don't really pay much attention to normally, but after living in 50 degree weather for a week & having to wake up early to start up the heater so the house was warm when the kids woke up, I'm SO grateful for automatic heat!

The last thing I'm grateful for is being healthy.  We've also all just recently gotten over being sick, one-at-a-time of course, so I'm always grateful to have those type of weeks behind us!  It's amazing how much a working vehicle, working heat, and working health can affect your life...  So here's to life going well!