Positive note

I know most of my posts have been really negative lately. 

I'm sorry. Stress and I go way back, but we are not friends at all. I can tell we're not friends. I get twice as emotional, and I gain a belly that makes me look prego when I'm not. Which leads to more tears and such. 

But getting off of that, I feel I need to write a gratitude post. I am grateful for so much, but it's hard to see when life gets rough. So maybe if I write it down, I can check back on days that are hard to be happy. 

I am grateful for:

•having a job - just one, where I get basically 3 months of the year off

•not needing to work to help us meet ends because I have a fabulous husband with a great job that does more than provide for us 

•being able to create - I admit I have a talent when it comes to painting and drawing. 

•being part of a church that is so wonderful and just fills me with wonderful feelings of happiness

•being able to influence so many little minds - despite all of the issues I've faced lately personally, I have never had a parent actually complain, nor the kids tell me they hate me or wish they'd had a different teacher. 

•the students that just want me to be proud of them 

•the ability to live in a house we own

•owning not one, but 3 houses (1 for each year we've been married, though we've only lived in 2. Haha)

•an ambitious husband who wants to become the best he can

•a hard working husband that can fix just about anything 

•the best family in the world - a successful dad, a caring mother, and the best sisters one could wish for 

•my musical abilities - I don't use these as often as I should. I do some singing along to music, but I really should practice my violin more. 

•a wonderful team of teachers that I'm working with this year - we are so much better than any team since I've starts teaching. We are going to do some amazing things. 

•a husband that even though I drive him crazy with all my crying, knows that when I have to say that I need snuggles, I really need them and willingly shares them with me

•rain - we don't get as much as I like, but I live what we do get! Along with the beautiful clouds

•health - I'm grateful for being a third year teacher who has missed less than five days of teaching since I started in 2011

I could keep going. There is so much I'm grateful for. Thank you those of you that have given me such kind words the past week! I have been touched by all those kind comments words of wisdom. 

I am truly blessed!