Oct 23 2008
Thursday Thankfulness
It’s been a long week and some thankfulness to put things in perspective is in order.
1. I am thankful for the two nights of uninterrupted sleep I got this week. The third night, last night, was not the charm. We may have to start taking some other proactive measures before bedtime. The second time Gus got out of bed last night, I tried taking the bad stuff out of his head - I put my fingers to his forehead and made a vacuuming sound - so he wouldn’t have any more bad dreams. He seemed to go back to sleep after that. I think we’re also going to take all these florescent lights out of the house. They may be better for the environment, but I have a sneaking suspicion that they are not doing very well for him. I find the noise they make very irritating, so I wonder if they are contributing to some of this.
2. I am thankful to have a husband and father for my children who is relatively engaged with his kids, especially now when the ‘boy’ issues are starting to emerge that I so don’t want to have to deal with.
3. I am thankful that we’ve decided to back off on the casein-free diet. We’re not going whole hog back to dairy, but I’m allowing cheese back onto the menu. The pure bliss on my kids’ faces over being allowed to have cheese again made it clear that we’d made the right choice. It should always be that easy to make kids that happy, so I’m grateful to have been able to do something right by their standards.
Please feel free to share your thankfulness in a comment. These days it seems more important than ever to remind ourselves of even the smallest blessings.
