Day one of my own little thankfulness challenge and I'm barely making the cutoff. It's not because I can't figure out what I'm thankful for - quite the opposite, actually. It's just that today has been a busy day - I basically woke up, went to work and met up with a friend and her kids for dinner. This is the first moment that I've really had to blog. I will admit that I struggled to pinpoint what I wanted to write about first, but I quickly realized it doesn't have to be that complicated and sometimes writing about life's random and simple moments is just fine.
Today, I'm thankful that I have a friend who was willing to drive a half hour with a toddler and a preschooler to have dinner with me (I honestly don't know how she does it...or how any parent does it, really.) I'm thankful that I got to hang with an almost-two year old ham who made me laugh for most of the evening...and who accompanied me on my first "run" since my injury. Normally I would feel like an ass running up and down a sidewalk in a shopping center (we did the "superman" run, in case you were wondering,) but he needed to burn off energy and his mom needed a few minutes to wait in line and pay the cashier in peace.
I always say that I'm not much of a kid person, and it's mostly true (it's not that I don't like kids, but being the baby in a pretty small family myself, I'm not really sure what to do with them.) However, I love it when kids can make you appreciate being in the moment, and find joy in simple, silly things (even if it does require you to make an ass out of yourself) and that's exactly what happened tonight.
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