Thankful for:

• Family, especially two lovely daughters
• Friends
• A beautiful nearly completed house
• Having a husband who can fix/build almost anything
• Having seen my cousins this year for the first time in 32 (in one case) / 11 (in most cases) / 8 (in two cases) years
• The things we don’t have: a lot of debt, rampant consumeristic tendencies, health problems, cable TV
• Not having to cook for 18 people more than once a year
• “Only” dealing with apraxia (It could be worse, of course.)