Thankful Thursdays: It's been awhile!

I'm so sorry I have neglected Thankful Thursdays for so long.  I hope to be better about it in the future. But enough of that, let's get down to the business of being thankful.

Today I'm thankful:

That I got spend Christmas with these wonderful people.

I love 'em and I don't get to see them enough.

That we got crafty this Christmas.

My sister and Dad stepped up to help me create these wonderful things: top left: tree paintings with button embellishments; top right: a giant flower for an empty wall in Mandy's house; bottom right: an iphone charger from a copy of Bossypants*; bottom left, a book safe (all credit goes to my dad on this one, he spent hours carving it for me)*


 That I got some wonderful new pictures to hang on my walls.

 Both have positive messages to start the new year with and look great in my house!

That Les Miserables was as spectacular as I hoped it would be.

I read the book this summer. All (or most) of the 1400+pages and I'm so glad I did. I'd never seen the musical on stage before, and the movie lived up to all of my expectations.

I feel like there are lots of other things I should be listing here in my first Thankfulness list in AWHILE, but I'm a little car-lagged (I just made that phrase up...like jet-lagged, but tired from driving. Kapesh?)

Merry Christmas!

*Please note that my nightstand holds four books now: Kings and Queens of England and Scotland (not pictured), The Making of Pride and Prejudice, my Bossypants book charger and Richard Foster's Prayer.  I'm nothing if not eclectic.

**I will never tell you which of my many books is now the home for my treasured possessions. Don't try to make me. It won't work.  Unless you're one of the handful of people who I told before I realized the security threat that posed to my treasures. If you're one of those people, please don't reveal the book safe's identity.