Failing at Gratitude!

I am so grateful, really I am!  Though I'm completely failing at this November gratitude challenge!  I think I'll bow out now and do a post on Fridays of my gratitude of the week instead.

However, since I'm what 8 "Gratitudes" behind! I have to catch up here. 

 

Last time I wrote about being grateful for the wonders of pregnancy and becoming a mother for the first time.  This time I want to write about how thankful I am for my next little bundle, Owen, and all of the treasures and challenges he brought.  That second pregnancy though still such a wonder was definitely more difficult and exhausting.  Becoming a mother for the second time was wonderful because I felt so much more confident as a Mom and not as afraid of birth. So unafraid in fact, I think it may have sped his arrival! (read more about that here.) Owen has been so full of surprises and fun!  The challenges of having 2 boys continuously keep me on my toes.  Rambunctious, loving, fighting, teasing, silliness, it's all wonderfully exhausting and enoyable! 

I'm also grateful for ...

• special, fun one on one time with Michael last weekend.  (I'll write more about that soon.)

• a loving, supportive husband, one that will clean & rearrange & move your business into his studio (man-cave) for you!

• my growing etsy business! I find it so fun, & challenging.  

• good friends, the ones I can hang out with & talk & talk with & the ones I can talk & talk with online! 

• Waldorf and the magic, spirit & grounding it brings to my children and I.   

• a loving and supportive family.  My mom who is not only my Mom but my good friend as well.

• and last but most definitely not least! God and my spiritual path, always inspiring and fulfilling!

And there are my 8 "Gratitudes"!  (yes, I'm aware it's not a word.) I'll begin my gratitude posting next Friday.  Hoping the other challengers are doing better than I have!  Oh and don't forget to enter the giveaway I'm hosting.  It's a giveaway of Sieglinde De Francesca's book, A Donsy of Gnomes and one of her Kit N Tales to boot!

Until next time...