Today I’m thankful for my ordinary day.

11/22/21

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As I was sitting on my couch just now, reflecting back on my day, I was having a hard time deciding what to write about. Nothing big or special happened today. There weren’t any huge note-worthy moments. Today was actually a pretty uneventful day. I was busy, but busy with normal things. Nothing out of the ordinary. I was due for a day like this, and honestly, it was really nice.

My struggle for tonight’s gratitude topic wasn’t due to a lack of gratitude though. In fact, quite the opposite. Today was full of lots of little blessings, dispersed throughout the day, and I was having trouble narrowing it down to one. But who says I have to?

Here are a few highlights from my day:

• the barista who asked me how my morning was going when I stopped for coffee on my way to work

• the welcome back butterfly kiss from my Kindergarteners this morning during our morning meeting (We have a butterfly puppet who helps welcome students back after being absent, and the kids were insistent that the butterfly welcome me back today as well, since I hadn’t been at school on Friday.)

• my teammate locking up the Kindergarten gate after school, even though it was my day to do so

• 10 minutes of quiet just sitting in my car in my school’s parking lot after school, catching up on texts from the day

• pineapples on sale for 97 cents at Fry’s

• the Costco employee who went and found me a cart when I realized I had more items than I could carry

• Barkley’s wagging tail and excited jumps that greeted me when I came through the kitchen door

• a warm fuzzy blanket to snuggle up in for a quick post-grocery shopping nap

• easy-to-cut straight-edged laminated art projects that I can mindlessly cut out while watching TV

• my DVR’d recording of “A Million Little Things” that I missed last week

Today I’m thankful for the reminder to myself to celebrate the ordinary days and appreciate all the little blessings they contain.