Incredibly Grateful

I feel so incredibly grateful right now. Grateful for many things...

1. I don't teach 3 year olds who are not potty trained... I have 4th graders.
2. I have amazing teachers who I work with that bring a smile to my face, such a blessing.
3. I have amazing friends with whom I can talk and purge all my frustrations and worries and share my joys and giggles with and I am so grateful that I know they are there - even if many times they are just on the other side of my blog. :)
4. I have an amazing husband with whom I have been blessed who loves me, listens to me (as long as I'm not too girly (; hee hee...), cares for me, plays with me and with whom I can actually sit on the couch and read books. That was something that I always imagined doing with my husband and then I married a man who claimed he was illiterate and now he's just as addicted to books as I am and it's fantastic!
5. For my students; while i have some who are incredibly frustrating, I really do have an awesome class. Most of them bring me incredible amounts of joy and bring a smile to my face. I actually have student - even though I am very hard on them when they don't follow directions - will tell me across the room that they love me. Unbelievable.
6. I am in a place where I won't have snow - I am looking forward to this more and more as we approach what is suppose to be winter - it still is regularly about 75-80 degrees during the day. Ahhh.
7. I am enjoying teaching; despite the early mornings, the late nights, the fears and stresses that I have to battle against, the disobedience from my kids, the stacks of paperwork, the worries... it still is something that I am looking forward to next year.
8. I am actually learning to have a life... slowly but surely. I got out of work at 5:30 today. Home by 6:15. Granted I didn't get done any work because I was having a God-led and rejuvenating talk with a dear friend, but so much the better.
9. I am starting to plan for the future and continuing to learn about how I should follow God as I teach, as I am a wife, as I am a friend, as I live and breath and love.
10. I am so grateful that I have a savior who has provided for me my salvation and blessed me with all that I have listed and more just because he enjoys blessing his children. I could not live life fully and with joy without Him. Thank you Lord!