I'm Thankful for Daughters Who Inspire Me to Record My Thankful Feelings!

My heart has been so full of gratitude that I am ashamed I have not taken the time to express my feelings.

• I'm grateful beyond words for three wonderful daughters who have grown into very amazing women and wives and mothers unequaled. I find great joy in being with them and feeling the love and respect they have for each other. They motivate me to do and be better.
• I am equally as grateful for a son who exceeds every desire we ever had for him. He is a man of great integrity, strength, and dedication to whatever he is called upon to do. He is a marvelous husband and father and a worthy priesthood holder.
• I am thankful for our sweet daughter-in-law, Sara, who is perfect for Matt in every way! She is our "4th" daughter and we are so grateful she graced our family with her through and through goodness! She, too, is the consummate mother. 
• I thank Heavenly Father regularly for three perfect sons-in-law who honor their priesthood and have the same goals and values as my daughters. They are amazing husbands and fathers and love me in spite of my quirks!
• I'm grateful for answers to fasting and prayer and a reaffirmation that Heavenly Father is there always, and in our extremities, opens the way for miracles to happen. 
• I'm so happy to have learned that even in what seem to be very small needs throughout the day that I can pray and receive answers on the spot! Like how to set a clock when the instructions have disappeared.
• I am thankful to have learned to trust Heavenly Father and my Savior completely...it has been years in the coming, but I think I'm there! 
• I'm so grateful that my sweet mother-in-law is experiencing peace and feeling love in her life again after so many months of misery.
• I'm thankful for a wonderful stake conference that renewed me spiritually and motivated me to set goals for myself again.
• I'm grateful for a husband who loves and respects me and expresses his love and appreciation every day. I'm thankful he takes his calling very seriously and though it weighs him down at times, is determined to do it in the Lord's way believing the promises that lives will be blessed in the process, including our own. I'm even more grateful for people who take the time to express how thankful they are for him and how much they love and appreciate council from Heavenly Father through him that has bettered their lives.
• I'm grateful for impending conference visitors that gave me the motivation to deep-clean my whole upstairs. I am so happy and feel so renewed! I'm also grateful for Greg who helped me in that process with heavy tasks I could not accomplish by myself!
• I am grateful for new friendships formed with those wonderful conference visitors from Salt Lake and their acceptance of us even after I answered the door in my grubbies and bedhead! Word to the wise...get up and ready for the day before you do your last minute chores. Your company might arrive a couple of hours early!
• I am thankful for my sweet Mom whom I enjoy being with so much. She is delightful, funny, social, and adaptive! She loves her new life in the retirement center and has taught me so much about just taking life as it comes and trusting Heavenly Father that He truly knows what is best for us.
• Can I say how much I love my warm, peaceful, beautiful home? I hope to stay here for the rest of our earthly lives! 
• I'm thankful for General Conference and technology that allows me to listen to talks during the day.
• I'm grateful for the Tabernacle Choir and the 150 songs I have recorded on my IPOD that I can set in the morning to play all day long. Their music calms me and brings me peace!
• I'm thankful for 17 perfect little grandkids! In just the last couple of days, I am thankful for a little Porter and Kaleb who ran out to the car to greet me and give me hugs and kisses and for a little Kami who came out barefoot in the cold to welcome me as well. I'm thankful for my little Cannon who asked if he could call me and then told me all about his Iron Man costume! I'm thankful for a long conversation with sweet Regan and her challenges at school and for wonderful Todd who turns 13 today.
• I'm thankful for a friend who gave me a box of beautiful Jonathan apples that I must now go make into applesauce!
• I'm grateful for the Book of Mormon that gives me clarity and understanding and helps me understand what I need to do to become more like the Savior.  I love Greg for desiring to read it and pray together every day.
• I love that families are the center of Heavenly Father's divine plan for His children and I am grateful for mine. I am so richly blessed!