I am grateful for gift cards to an art supply store that came my way for Christmas. I went shopping there with my mother, who also had a gift card to shop with there.

I am grateful for lunch with my folks, too.

I am grateful for Cooper’s Cub meeting tonight. They were divided into teams and made towers out of drinking straws, competing to build the tallest.

I am grateful for news that a good friend of mine became a father today, and everyone is well, and I’m just so dang happy for the three of them.