Gratitude Challenge, Day 1

Inspired by other folks who's blogs I read, I am starting the 21 Day Gratitude Challenge sponsored by Tiny*Prints. It is a really neat program that you can read about here: http://www.gratitudechallenge.com/. Plus, all their marketing is, as usual, so beautiful and swanky that if you decide to try it, you'll just feel cooler.

Anyway, I am feeling pretty happy and grateful in my life right now. I believe that this is mainly induced by frequently smelling of the top of Olivia's head, but I also know that just about anyone who's accomplished anything throughout history, yeah, I mean Oprah, says that the biggest secret to their success and happiness is being grateful. Every day. In every thing.

I also want to teach my children to be grateful. They have such full lives that they are going to need some practice in gratefulness. And since my son actually loses rather than gains brain cells when I give him little informational lectures on various topics that are important to me, like why I think cheerleaders should be playing the sport not cheering for someone else to be good at it and that's why your sister will never be one, I hope that I can become a better Model of Gratefulness, too. The odds are that my son will learn better that way -and probably Olivia, too.

She'll also probably want to be a cheerleader. Because some day when she gets tired of my informational lectures, Christian is going to take her aside and say, "You know what would really piss mom off...?" And, I'm going to need to know how to be grateful for that, too.