So much to be thankful for

As you might have read in my last post, the week between Christmas and New Years was particularly... busy. While writing that post I was having a hard time focusing on the positive things that happened and chose to focus on the negative. Honestly, it was a rough week for me, but I'd like to talk about the great things that happened this last week.

-- I got to see my mom, dad, and brother for Christmas! I was really worried when I started to feel sick but we had a lot of fun and as always Matt and my brother got to bond.

-- My parents got me an AMAZING new photo scanner. I've taken on the task of scanning all the photos in my grandma's house. Let's just say she was not only an avid photographer, she also kept every photo she ever took. That's a lot of photos to scan, crop, label, and assign to a family member. Now I have an even better piece of equipment to do it!

-- Matt and I exchanged stockings just before Christmas and HOLY COW does my husband know me well! There was not one thing in the whole stocking that I didn't flip over. Amazing creativity and know-how by this wonderful man of mine.

-- My brother is probably the most creative person I know, and that is saying something. He wrapped my gift (Maggie Griffin's book Tip It) to be a stand up photo frame. Genius.

-- He wrapped Matt's present (an iTunes giftcard) in cardboard and then several many many many layers of duct tape. It probably took him a good 10 hilarious minutes to get the card out. Awesome!

-- While I was home sick Matt took great care of me. Seriously, what a guy I have here.

-- Since my mom had to go to the hospital and therefore my grandma didn't visit for New Years, I got to spend a lot of time with my boys. I do miss them, it was nice to hang out when they weren't running around with their own things to do.

-- I BOUGHT A CAR!!!!!!!

I'm seriously stressing about going back to work, I don't feel rested at all, but I sure do have plenty to be thankful for. Thank you to all of you who have been such a big part of my life!