Thanksgiving 2013

One Family Home Evening when our children were  small, we made a gratitude tree filling it with leaves marked with things we were grateful for. I told them the story of when Rachel was just a baby  we went camping for a week while we waited to take possession of our apartment. Cleaning a small baby in a sink was getting a little old by the third day. A beautiful spirited woman came in and began engaging in a conversation with Rachel. She said "Aren't you so grateful to have hot water to wash your baby? And aren't you even happier that this water isn't contaminated?"

Well until that moment I wasn't. So that year we made the gratitude tree I wrote on one of my leaves "Clean water".

Today I would write these:

1) mascara and eyeliner
2) pushup bras and spandex
3) Aretha Franklin and Brian Adams
4)  GPS and Google
5) Elder Uchtdorf and Richard Bushman
6) central heating and hot water bottles
7) vitamix blenders and titanium knees
8) spin class and deep water running
9) forgiving children and a faithful husband
and
10) Fernando.