autumn leaves

The smell of fall is in the air! Cool crisp mornings are wonderful and I love them. And with the autumn leaves comes a great time to reflect my many blessings!

Each day I get up is a blessing and as I look around I see the beautiful world that I live in and love I am so thankful for it. (at our age, you do begin to count the days-ha) When I see all the "tea parties and town hall meetings" I know how blest I am to live in a country where people can speak their mind and voice their views and I am thankful for this! I am thankful for an eternal companion who allows me to be me! He gos about quietly doing things that make my life easier and always is happy when I am! He asks very little in this life, a piece of Kim's pound cake, or Jean's chocolate chip cookies, or Libb's lasagna and he's good to go! I see my blessings when I go down my hall and see my picture of my family, my wonderful children, grand and greats!! What great joy this brings me as I pray for their safety each day! I think of them early in the morning, going to work, school, or seminary and think how blest I am for such a wonderful family. I count my blessings when I go to the cemetary to carry flowers for Noah and think of the joy he brouught to all of us in a such a short time, and to know that I will see him again! I am blest to be able to get up and go to work 2 days a week! I am thankful that my mind is still fairly sharp(no comments please) and I still love to read the scriptures and enjoy reading a good book, what great blessings I have and as I watch the leaves begin to fall, I think of them all!!

I love you all!