I love to count my blessings—and they are many! I am blessed with a wonderful husband, children I am proud of, grandchildren I adore, good friends, great colleagues, my health, my citizenship in a noble nation, my belief in God, and leading a company that brings joy and opportunity every day of my life. I am truly grateful!
So, let’s hear from you! As Thanksgiving approaches, what is ONE thing you are particularly, profoundly grateful for right now? To help sweeten the (pumpkin) pie, I’ll even add a contest element: comment on this post and you’ll be automatically entered to win YOUR favorite stamp set from the Autumn/Winter 2010 Idea Book. I’ll choose 10 winners at random on November 24th, just before Thanksgiving... giving you one more thing to be grateful for!
And if you’re wondering, my favorite stamp set this Idea Book is a tie—I love both of the stamp sets featured on page 11, in support of our beautiful “Magnifique” paper collection. “Circle of Love” is dramatic and trendy, and the peacock feathers and flourishes dress up just about any artwork; but I also love the “Unity” set, which conveys so many of my favorite sentiments about family and togetherness. If you win the contest you can choose one of these as your prize or another of the more than 100 stamp sets in the Idea Book. Can’t wait to hear from you!
So, let’s hear from you! As Thanksgiving approaches, what is ONE thing you are particularly, profoundly grateful for right now? To help sweeten the (pumpkin) pie, I’ll even add a contest element: comment on this post and you’ll be automatically entered to win YOUR favorite stamp set from the Autumn/Winter 2010 Idea Book. I’ll choose 10 winners at random on November 24th, just before Thanksgiving... giving you one more thing to be grateful for!
And if you’re wondering, my favorite stamp set this Idea Book is a tie—I love both of the stamp sets featured on page 11, in support of our beautiful “Magnifique” paper collection. “Circle of Love” is dramatic and trendy, and the peacock feathers and flourishes dress up just about any artwork; but I also love the “Unity” set, which conveys so many of my favorite sentiments about family and togetherness. If you win the contest you can choose one of these as your prize or another of the more than 100 stamp sets in the Idea Book. Can’t wait to hear from you!
I am extremely grateful for my wonderful son and fabulous daughter, as they mature into adults.
ReplyDeleteI am profoundly grateful for my son, Jay. His gentle spirit & loving, sweet personality keep me grounded. He is everything to me and every day I thank my Lord that I have him.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I get frustrated in the little space that is my home. I look around and wish, and dream, and hope for something bigger one day....for that I AM grateful!!! My HOME is where I have moved into with my husband. My 800 square foot home is where both of my beautiful children were born and are being raised. I am lucky to have a home!! My home is not only the roof over my head, but the heart of my family...My home. It brings warmth and kindness, love and laughter. For that I am grateful!
ReplyDeletei am thankful for my husband and 2 children. i think we have the perfect family. i am thankful for my friends. i feel so blessed whenever we spend time together. i am also thankful for the schools that my children attend. my daughter attends a christian preschool. i trust the teachers completely and feel safe leaving her there for 2 1/2 hours. my son attends a kindergarten in a christian school. we are so very happy with the environment of the school and the curriculum. i feel so blessed that we are able to send our children to these schools.
ReplyDeleteToday I am incredibly grateful that my father has survived another bout of pneumonia and is home from the hospital and living with us once again. And for a 7-year old daughter who takes everything in stride. During a sad moment last week, she sweetly reminded me that "even though we will miss Poppa if he doesn't come home from the hospital, we will be happy for him because he'll be with Jesus and Nana in heaven". How thankful I am that she reminds me that what is most important is not here & now, but eternal.
ReplyDeleteToday I have been continually reminded of how grateful I am for my devoted husband. He works so hard and takes such good care of us. Some days I am overcome with emotion when I think of our energetic and happy children who have brought such joy into our lives. We are so blessed!
ReplyDeleteI'm profoundly grateful for mercy. My son recently made a serious mistake that could have resulted in a penalty that would have life-long implications. He had mercy extended to him and was given the opportunity to get back on the right path. It has been a blessing to see him recognize what he did wrong and take the steps to make it right.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for a wonderful community of crafters - those that take time to inspire and uplift one another, and those that use their hobby and love of stamping and patterned paper to improve the lives of others.
ReplyDeleteFor my family...even with all our flaws and shortcomings, we still are family.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for the simple things in our lives that bring us joy and that we seem to take for granted. When I think back to the stories my Grandma use to tell about her childhood...like walking miles to school, not having running water, etc. Just all the things that seem to be overlooked by many in these modern days. So, thank you to our ancestors for discovering all our simple pleasures.
ReplyDeleteThank you for allowing me to leave my comment.
Lana
I am grateful for a husband that:
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is the smartest person I know; seems to love me even though I don't deserve it; works hard at everything he does; is good at everything he does; provides for our family over and above what we need; is my best friend.
And even though I'm grateful for my husband, i recognize that the LORD gave him to me!
I am thankful for my family and my wonderful scrapbooking friends who meet at my house once a month!
ReplyDeleteI am so thankful for my faith, my family, our jobs, and that I am able to daily enjoy what God has so graciously given to me.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful for my family, especially my parents, my brother and sister-in-law and having a job and a roof over my head.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful for the opportunities I have been given, a good job, the chance to own a home and people to help me out. Thank you so much for the giveaway.
ReplyDeletepamgrouette at gmail dot com
I am soooo grateful and blessed to be a stay at home mommy to 3 in this economy!!
ReplyDeleteToday, I am profoundly grateful for the long line of patriots who have pledged their lives and sacred trust to create and sustain the land of the free and the home of the brave.
ReplyDeleteI am so thankful that I have a loving heavenly Father. The past three years have brought tremendous changes to our family, many of which could have been devistating. We have seen God bring us through these trials step-by-step. It has been a great blessing to see his hand in our lives!
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my husband and children, they keep me going, especially when we have such crazy lives with work, school, and extra-curricular activities. My husband and I work odd hours so that one of us is always home with our children, but the tiredness factor takes a toll on us. But we are reminded especially in this Thanksgiving season, that we are blessed and are thankful for each other!
ReplyDeleteThis year I'm thankful for a new house and a new baby. It's been a big year.
ReplyDeleteI am profoundly grateful for the wonderful, loving, supportive man I married 11 years and 1 month ago! Not only has he been my best friend for the past 16 years, he has been by my side through some emotional times, happy times, sad times & blessed times at the births of our two sons. He works very hard, and unfortunately at times some very long late hours, but he does all of this without complaint because he didn't back down on the promise he made all those years ago to my dad to take care of me, provide for me and our family, when he asked for my dad's approval to ask me to marry him. And then 7 1/2 years ago when I struggled with the decision to continue working or become a stay at home mom with our first son. He was right there supporting my decision to stay home.
ReplyDeleteWe live 1300 miles from all of our family, because we had to follow our dreams and at least try the opportunity that presented itself 5 years ago to move to Montana. We love it here and I have made some wonderful friends through scrapbooking. Which again my hubby was supportive of me when I made the decision in May to sign up to be a Consultant. He loves me and supports me and I couldn't ask for a better man!
Sorry this is kind of long, but I just get a little gabby when I'm talking about my guy! Thank you Jeanette for your post and the chance to win!
Pam
I am most grateful for my husband and children. They are my very best friends, the joys of my life and the reason I do everything I do.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful for God's provisions! My husband lost his job a month ago, and we've come on some very hard times. But as we've continued to seek God and trust in Him that He has a plan, He has constantly provided for every need that has come up! Financially, this will be the hardest holiday season we've had. But we are learning that the holidays are not about the things money can buy--they're about the invaluable things--love, family and friends.
ReplyDeleteOnly ONE thing? I have so very much to be thankful for. Tonight I had a wonderful spur of the moment dinner with all 4 of my kids, their spouses, grand-daughter and my good friend (who is like a sister)and her son. She just lost her husband a few short weeks ago. It was very very sad...Boy do I count my blessings. I am so blessed to have loving friends and family in my life. They support me and give me purpose amd joy. Life is good.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful everyday, today I am grateful for a family full of love and good health...I am grateful for the blessings of that today :)
ReplyDeleteI am most Thankful for my husband, for the love and patience that he shows me daily.
ReplyDeleteI am most grateful for the health of my family. Without our health, I believe we have nothing. From my parents entering their 70's to my children who are 9 and 14 to brothers and wives who are in their 40's, I am so thankful we have enjoyed another year of being together.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my family, for the roof over my head, for the jobs that DH and I still have and for the joy and laughter my friends provide. I am truly blessed and thankful for good fortune in my life.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for a wonderful husband and my family. All of them are amazing people. I am thankful for little miracles all around us.
ReplyDeleteRight now, I am most thankful for my 19 month old daughter. With two very rambunctious, older brothers it is so wonderful to have a little girl in the house! (Don't get me wrong, I am thankful for my boys & love them to pieces, too! There is just something a bit different about a mother-daughter bond :))
ReplyDeleteI am very thankful for my wonderful family...my husband, 2 daugthers and new baby son...we finally got our boy! Couldn't be happier!
ReplyDeleteAlthough past years have been special, this year, I am extremely grateful for blessings beyong my dreams- we are expecting our first child in a few weeks! Although it will be hard to stay out of the kitchen helping prepare the annual feast, and to just sit by and prop my swollen feet up, I am beyond estatic for the little, healthy, baby girl I get to meet in a few weeks!
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my family - my husband and girls as well as all of my extended family on both my side and my husbands.
ReplyDeleteAmong all the things I am thankful for, I would have to say that my daughters have given me more than I could ever ask for.........four terrific grandchildren who brighten all my days!
ReplyDeleteI am so very grateful for everything in my life right now. It's been a tough year for not only my Family but for those around us and through it all we've remained together, faithful and strong!
ReplyDeleteI am so very thankful for my family and friends. I am grateful for so many things in my life.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful for my family and the fact that I have many, many more things that I could list because I am so blessed.
ReplyDeleteThis week has been a rough one for my brother and sister-in-law. They have taught me to be even more thankful for the fact that I had two healthy pregnancys and two beautiful boys. I love my family and am grateful that any suffering we have gone through to date has not had to with our children.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful that I woke up this morning-kissed my family and headed out for another day of being here on Earth. God is good!
ReplyDeleteI too have a long list of blessings in my life and I am thankful for each one! My family, friends, my church, and of course, CTMH. Have a wonderful Holiday season!
ReplyDeleteI am grateful for the new life I've found; a wonderful man who works SO HARD to take care of us and a new home with lots of possibilities for our "blended" family to share!
ReplyDeleteI am particularly grateful for my one and only grandson. He lives across the country from us, but still he brings such joy and happiness to me. He's the light of my life, and just thinking about him brings a smile to my face and lifts my spirits. I love being his Granny.
ReplyDeleteSounds like I am kissing up here but I am grateful that I can choose to work for a wonderful company like CTMH! Not many people can work for such an amazing company that is not afraid to share its faith and encourages me to succeed and gives me the tools to do so. Happy Thanksgiving Jeanette!!
ReplyDeleteI am so grateful for the blessings of my hardworking husband and my four loving children. They bring so much joy into my life!
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my health. I know several ladies in town, younger than me, that are battling cancer. One passed away a few days ago. For much of my life, I have taken my body and health for granted and not treated it as I should, but I am working to change that.
ReplyDeleteMay you remember and count all the small, insignificant blessings, as well as the large, easily visible, blessings this Thanksgiving and every day.
Elizabeth Munter
God blessed me beyond belief 27 years ago when my husband and I were married. He is my best friend and a joy to my days. The most amazing aspect of his devotion to me though is that he has been my rock and support through almost 10 years of my being disabled by a spinal cord injury AND multiple sclerosis. He takes care of me and lets me be free to do what I can and want to do!
ReplyDeleteI am grateful to still have my father after he suffered a stroke in May. He is truly a miracle showing no signs now of the stroke. I know this is because he had the prayers of so many family and friends, and of course a loving God who answered those prayers.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for friends who are gracious and patient with me. I am thankful for the amazing family I grew up in. I am thankful for my husband and children and all the joy they bring to my life.
ReplyDeleteAfter going through some personal struggles lately in our family, I am grateful that God has reminded me that I am lucky to have 3 amazing children, a warm house to live in and a stable job in this uncertain economy.
ReplyDeleteI am so very thankful for my husband. He is often kinder to me than I deserve, and he works very hard so that we may have the things we have been blessed with.
ReplyDeleteI am so grateful for my devoted husband and beautiful 13 month old daughter. She shows me everyday how easy it is to love!
ReplyDeleteAnd today i am also very grateful for my relationship with my grandmother. She is currently in ICU after having 2 heart attacks since Tuesday. She is improving, and i am cannot convey in words how grateful I am for her strength and determination to live.
I am very thankful for my family Husband, and girls. Love how close-knit we are. Treena
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my new house that I will be able to share with all of my friends and family this year and for years to come.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my family, which includes my church family, since we live several hundred miles from our immediate family.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for God for helping me through all the difficult times in my life and blessing me with wonderful people in my life that help Him help me. :)
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for a husband that works hard so that i can stay home and take care of the kids. It would be so much harder to let them be involved in what they are if i had to work and take them places. I am thankful that he can take care of us while I take care of the kids stuff!!
ReplyDeleteI am blessed with a beautiful, brilliant daughter who is truly wonderful down to her soul. I am also very blessed to have a son who we are still getting to know(only 5 mos old). Watching him learn and experience new things is also a blessing to me. Since, thanks to my wonderful husband who helps make it possible for me to stay home to care and teach our children. I am also blessed to be able to spread my love of scrapbooking by being part of CTMH. There really isn't enough space in this comment box to name all my blessings but these are what came to me immediately.
ReplyDeleteFaith Hilsinger
scrapwithfaith@myctmh.com
So Much to be Thankful for, family, friends, a warm house. But even if i had none of those, i am most especially is Thankful for a God who loves me and died for me.
ReplyDeleteWell with my husband out of work (for 9 months now) times have been rough. But lately I have been very thankful for having a roof over our heads. We have a beautiful house and I think we are so very lucky to be living here!
ReplyDeleteI am grateful for the gift of Life and the ability to finally understand that it is up to me be happy and love life. Live!Love!Laugh!
ReplyDeleteI am profoundly grateful for my wonderful husband. He is an amazing father to our two children and a loving partner who always puts the needs of others above his own. I am one lucky girl and for that I am thankful!
ReplyDeleteI am joyously grateful that God entrusted me to be a mother and wife - what a blessing and huge privilege! Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my wonderful husband and my two healthy, amazing, beautiful daughters! Though my days are tough, I'm also thankful to be a stay at home mom!
ReplyDeleteI'm thankful for God's grace. I truly have more than I deserve. I have a wonderful husband - ten years and counting, two healthy kids, and a family tree I am proud of. Plus a wonderful church family that keeps me motivated.
ReplyDeleteI am deeply thankful to God for giving me the gift of my 2 sons, whom I wouldn't have without Him and His gift to us of the knowledge of medicine. He also blessed me with a wonderful new husband this year, whom my children and I are both profoundly thankful for.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for so many things, but first and foremost I am thankful for a loving Heavenly Father who knows me inside and out and loves me anyway!
ReplyDeleteStephanie McElroy
It's funny, I was just thinking about how blessed I am right now as I was working on cards for a Christmas Card workshop I'm having tomorrow night. I jumped on the computer to look something up and saw this post. At the end of August, when I realized that I would no longer be teaching, I was at a loss. I am so thankful for my life and the fact that I've been given the opportunity to work on my craft business full-time. I am so thankful for the support and love of my husband, my family, and my friends. I am truly blessed.
ReplyDeleteI am so thankful to have a husband who loves being a daddy to our three little boys. He's always there to help do bathtime, and support them and me as much as he can. He's a good provider, and I just love to see how much he loves our family. Yea, Thanksgiving!
ReplyDeleteI am grateful for my Savior, my family and my friends! I am very blessed!
ReplyDeleteI am grateful for my faith! I had struggled with it going through a hard year in 2009. Now that 2010 is almost over, i can look back and see how through my faith in my Lord, He pulled me through. I feel like walking with Him through prayer and study of His word was the main thing that got me through. :)
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for second chances & the opportunity to make a difference in someone's life...God has given my husband and I the opportunity to help my stepdaughter..the details would make you tear up a little...they do me!
ReplyDeleteI am grateful that I have my health as I pray for a friend that is going through a rough time right now.
ReplyDeleteI am very thankful for my three beautiful daughters. It is easy to forget this some days when we get caught up in the minutiae of everyday life - school, household, illness, etc. Our youngest has some health issues and has yet to sleep through the night and I am a walking zombie after 7 1/2 months of no sleep. So today I put my exhaustion aside and stop and remember that it is a small price to pay for her to be here and realtively healthy
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful for almost too many things to name! My family, my friends, my supporters, my co-workers, my home, my health, and much, much more! I'm one lucky gal.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful that my soldier husband will be home with us this year for the holidays after spending too many far away (and keeping those in my prayers who will not be at home this year). I'm also thankful for my daughter that has more patients than a 10 yr. old should, and my three yr. old son that always wakes up with a smile on his face.
ReplyDeleteMy life is blessed in so many ways. I am truly grateful for my family and my belief that HaShem guides me and has given me the most wonderful family, job and life.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my wonderful family!
ReplyDeleteI am and will be eternely grateful and thankful for my husband. He does everything he possibly can to make sure our family has what we need and more! He is in the Army Reserves, so when he is not working his civilian job as a truck driver, he is working as a mechanic for the military. As I am writing this he is preparing for deployment to Afgahnistan for a civilian company. His main goal in going oversees it to make sure that our family is taken care of, including the grown children, grandchildren and those of us still at home. He is a rock and I can ALWAYS count on him!
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my wonderful husband that works so I can stay home with our 4 kids(8,5,3 and 15 months)and is the love of my life. For my 4 wonderful kids who make our lives complete. My oldest daughtest who is my little helper, my oldest son who shows bravery and determination in all he has already had to overcome with being a micropremie, my youngest son who has a wonderful sense of humor and my youngest daughter who is so easygoing and completed our family.
ReplyDeleteThere's never a dull moment in our household :)
Family is everything.
Christina S
Friends and family that love me and support me through many things.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful that we'll be able to spend Thanksgiving with all of the family this year. We're up to 30 people now attending. A new baby cousin was born this past Monday and ironically he was born on Poppy's birthday. Sadly Poppy died this past April, but this new little life will bring the family many many years of love and joy, just like Poppy did! I am so thankful we'll all be together in exactly one week!
ReplyDeleteOne thing I am feeling very grateful for today. . . ALL of the Friends I have made through Close to My Heart! All of the wonderful people I have met and really gotten to know. People I would have never come into contact with, if it hadn't been for this wonderful company!
ReplyDeleteOne thing I am feeling very grateful for today. . . ALL of the Friends I have made through Close to My Heart! All of the wonderful people I have met and really gotten to know. People I would have never come into contact with, if it hadn't been for this wonderful company!
ReplyDeleteOne thing I am feeling very grateful for today. . . ALL of the Friends I have made through Close to My Heart! All of the wonderful people I have met and really gotten to know. People I would have never come into contact with, if it hadn't been for this wonderful company!
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my husband of almost 21 years. Our adoptive son who has brought so much joy into our lives. Our little miracle baby girl, she brings so much laughter into our home. My family is what I am most grateful for!
ReplyDeleteAfter many years of physical abuse from a family member the Lord blessed me with a husband who cherishes me and protects me with his love and kindness. I am so thankful that we found each other and after many attempts we now have two beautiful and healthy children. I am truly blessed.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful for so many things - my Lord and Savior, my family, my friends, my church, my job, etc...but this season I'm especially thankful to have lost 30 pounds! Working on more, but to have reached the "30" milestone is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for God and His blessings. Many things are going wrong this year but His blessings will continue to get us through. His miracles are slowly bringing my mother from her coma and His strength is getting me through each day as it comes.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful every day for my family. One new thing I have to be especially thankful for this year is finally learning how to cope as a mother of a child with Asperger's Syndrome. It has taken me many years to learn these new coping skills.
ReplyDeleteThanksgiving is a heartwarming time because we reflect on what we've been so blessed with! What a fantastic time for photo ops, both posed and on the fly! Thank you for the inspiration for scrapbooking and cardmaking! Preserving those memories is fun and so worthwhile.
ReplyDeleteI am so very thankful that I can stay home with my kids and give them lots of hugs and kisses every day.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful for the peace I have in my heart. Knowing I have a loving God that gives me strength. I am thankful for my health, my family, my beloved puppy dog! I'm also thankful that I was blessed with a life that allows me to bless others. I am truly thankful for that.
ReplyDeleteI am not only grateful for my family, on Thanksgiving but every day of the year. What I am truly grateful for is that my only nephew has beat cancer this year, so that it what I a truly grateful for. Theresa Colfer
ReplyDeleteWhere oh where do I begin? By the standards in our society, many would say our family doesn't have much. However, I would say we have MUCH to be thankful for that is beyond what money can buy. Our home is filled with the laughter of children from morning to night. My husband and I love each other and enjoy spending time together. We don't need anything as all our needs are met. Most importantly, we have a personal relationship with the King of Kings, Jesus Christ. If that is all we had, that alone would be more than enough to be thankful.
ReplyDeleteAs for my favorite stamp set from the current idea book, it is Everlasting Life. It was the first one that I purchased from this new idea book. I love that it can be used for so many occasions beyond Christmas. It was wonderful to find such a beautiful Scripture stamp set in this idea book!
I think I am most thankful for the fact that my husband and I have this time to share together.
ReplyDeleteWith the economy the way it is and the storms sent to us by ways out of our control, we are able to cling to the fact that we have each other through the worst times we have encountered in our entire relationship.
So I'm thankful that I have my husband beside me through thick and thin!
I am thankful to be alive and well, living in a free country, doing as I please with my family and friends. drendon@comcast.net
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my amazing husband, John. He is my soul mate, my biggest fan, and the love of my life. :o)
ReplyDeleteMy Mother died on Thanksgiving day in 1991. So every Thanksgiving (and every other day) I am profoundly thankful for the parent I have left! So, grateful to still have my Dad. Thanks for the contest! cjdempsey9 at msn dot com
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my family: my husband of 14 years, my 2 sons, Remington, age 7 and Colton age 5. I am also truly grateful for all of us being healthy. Sunday my son fell and hit his head and had a concussion. He was outside playing by himself and does not remember anything, not even how he hit his head. I thank GOD every day that he fine now! It was a very scary experience to go through.
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ReplyDeleteI am thankful for family, friends and a free country to live in. We have learned during these trying times to survive as our ancestors did, to live off the land ,and to trust in God for guidance.
ReplyDeleteMargaret Bess
I am thankful for so much in my life, my wonderful husband, my amazing son & daughter, my friends whom I love so much, all of my extended family, my job, that I live in the land of the free, my list goes on and on, BUT I am most thankful that I am a child of my savior, Jesus Christ, to whom I owe all my thanks to for my many blessings!
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ReplyDeleteI am most thankful for my wonderful family. Every day I feel blessed by them.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful that my 10 month old is getting better from a bout of pneumonia. I am thankful for doctors and nurses.
ReplyDeleteI am so grateful for how blessed my family and I have been. Yes we have struggles just like anyone else, but when I stop and think about it, we have been amazingly and abundantly blessed.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for the great group of people that crafting has introduced me to. New people come into that sphere all the time. Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteI am greatful for my Husband and two sons. They are my everything and help to get through each day.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for being blessed with an amazing family and wonderful friends. M y life couldn't be better.
ReplyDeleteI'm thankful to have my dog for another holiday. He's almost 15 and the sweetest Sheltie ever. I am grateful for each day that I have with him as he is getting so old, but is still "with it".
ReplyDeleteI have to say that I am grateful for my family. We were fortunate to be able to move literally right next to my parents this past summer and are now only 2 1/2 hours from my husband's mom (as compared to being 8 hours away from all of them). My kids will get to grow up with the opportunity to see and learn from their grandparents every day. Now we are able to spend time with them more often than just during the holidays.
ReplyDeleteWow...I am grateful for so much...but off the top of my head I would say I am grateful for CTMH and the fact that it allows a "non-artistic" person like me the ability to be creative while preserving my familys memories. Thanks CTMH!
ReplyDeleteThis season I am feeling espeically thankful that I found CTMH. It has given me the opportunity to do what I have wanted to do for a long time: stay home to be a full time mom to my children! Even though I work my business. because it is MY business, I can work around my family instead of fitting my family in around my work. I am so thankful each and every day that I wake up and can mother my children and be relaxed and calm with them, and send them off to their day with love in their hearts and thoughts fo mommy waiting for them to come home. It means the world to me to be able to stay home with them. I am SO thankful for that.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for an amazing God. That I live in a country where we are free to worship. That I am blessed with a wonderful, loving husband that I love so much and that we have beautiful, healthy children (so far no colds this season and Lord willing it will stay that way). Thankful for the best mother and father-in-law. Thankful for wonderful friends, our cute little home, that it's snowing outside right now as I write this. So thankful for Close to My Heart, being an Independent Consultant and getting to scrapbook, make cards and all kinds of fun creations! I am so thankful for so many things year round but love this time of year that we take time to truly reflect on the things that matter most! And my favorite stamp sets are Old World Alphabet-( I already have it), & Snow Days,Snow Flurries and Many Thanks.
ReplyDeleteAm thankful of being healthy to raise my children, be able to grow my CTMH business, to enjoy my family and friends and the ocean smell!!! Thanks...
ReplyDeleteGrateful for the freedom to scrap or voice my opinion without fear and for those who have given a part of their lives like my dad or the ultimate sacrifice so I can.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my family, and for my wonderful oppertunities with Close to my Heart.
ReplyDeleteI am so thankful for so much, where do I begin! I am thankful for my husband, my son, my daughter and my son on the way, for our first home, for my brothers and sisters, for my parents, and most of all, for my Heavenly Father. Without him I wouldn't be here to enjoy all of these wonderful blessings!!!
ReplyDeleteback in Nov 1999, I was in a horrific car accident. I was fine, but, my car, which went under a tractor trailer, was totaled. I was inches from serious injury or death. So, everyday, I am grateful that I am alive, to raise my children, and to be with my family and my husband.
ReplyDeleteI am so very grateful to be married to a wonderful man that serves and protects not only our community (as a police officer); but also and foremost that he serves & protects our Country by fighting for our Freedom when he is called upon. However, there really is no amount of thanks that can express how much I am grateful for all he does!
ReplyDeleteFirst and foremost I am grateful for my salvation and that of my loved ones. After that there too many to list but one is my good health. Lately it seems as if cancer is knocking on so many doors and God wakes me in the middle of the night to pray for them. I know one day I will be on the receiving end of the prayers so may I be faithful now to love others by praying. God bless all of you.
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ReplyDeleteThe ONE thing I am MOST profoundly greatful for? My Lord and Savior and all He did and does for me! :)
I am thankful for my fourth child, my son Henry. He was the only child who wasn't "planned". I didn't think I was ready to have another baby, so I always refer to him as my "gift from God".
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ReplyDeleteOf course I could list many, many things for which I am grateful. The thing that seems most appropriate for this forum, though is this: I'm grateful for such a positive and supportive crafting blogging community. Everyone is so kind to each other. We all draw inspiration from each other. I LOVE IT! It's been such a welcome addition to my life.
I am so thankful to God for giving me a wonderful husband and precious daughter
ReplyDeleteI am grateful, beyond measure, for my family. They are everything to me, and the most important. Everything else is just frosting.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful that after 6 years of praying my family has been able to be closer to my extended family.
ReplyDeleteI am grate ful this season for the support of my family. I've been on strict bed rest for almost 7 weeks - scheduled to have our new baby (an unplanned pregnancy) tomorrow - and they have been amazing!
ReplyDeleteI am intensely and profoundly grateful for the blessings of a wonderful family, new babies, healthy older parents, and a lot of love!
ReplyDeleteQuite simply, I am beyond grateful for my husband.
ReplyDeleteI'm Greatful for my 7 children and my wonderful husband. I'll never run out of things to scrap! :p
ReplyDeleteMy family and friends!! Without them what would this world be?
ReplyDeleteI am so grateful for the calm in my life at this point! My husband is wonderful and a blessing every day. My sons are maturing into fine young men that make me proud. I have so much to be thankful for - a job, family, good friends and my health. I am truly blessed.
ReplyDeleteEASY....I'm thankful for FREEDOM!!! It really encompasses everything...if you're able to love, talk, dance, sing, have a family, worship, etc....YOU HAVE FREEDOM! There are a lot of people in this world that do not...
ReplyDeleteAfter years of health difficulties, I am profoundly grateful for my renewed good health. I am grateful to have a body that is responding to healthy eating and exercise. A body that is strengthening every day.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my beautiful little girl and my amazing miracle baby that is on his way!! After years of waiting God has blessed me two fold over the last 2 years. I cannot imagine a life less crazy or perfect!!
ReplyDeleteI am constantly reminded of how truly grateful how I am for my husband. He takes good care of me and allows me lots of "me" time to scrap, garden, or go play with friends! He is such a great husband and daddy. I love him! Thanks,
ReplyDeleteHeidi Albert
I am grateful for my family most. This will be our second Thanksgiving with out my mother but my sister is coing from Boston with her baby to visit. I am also grateful that my self, my husband, and my two boys are all still with jobs considering how slow things are at work.
ReplyDeleteWithout a doubt I have MANY blessings but at the top of the list is my soul mate, Stan. He is my best friend and my partner for life. My life would not be complete without him. We met 18 years ago this past Sunday and I fall in love with him all over again each passing day.
ReplyDeleteI thank my Lord above for bringing Stan to me.
I am thankful for a loving, supportive husband, my two beautiful boys, and many wonderful friends and family that make my life incredibly wonderful! I am very blessed indeed! I am also thankful for the opportunity to become a consultant with CTMH, and to be able to share my joy and passion for scrapping with so many others!
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my 5 year old son's school's cafeteria workers. He has a life threatening peanut allergy and requires epipens. Last week in the morning rush of getting all the kids out the door for school, I accidently packed him the wrong Lunchable...it had a peanut candy in it. The cafeteria worker noticed the candy and immediately took him and the candy to the school nurse. The package was unopened! He didn't eat any of it. The workers there are always looking out for him. I felt terrible knowing that I hadn't paid close attention to the childrens lunches. God knew what happened...and He continued to protect my son throughout the day. So VERY thankful the cafeteria ladies and for an omnipotent God!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm thankful that I am married to my Pastor and the people we have met because of that. God has brought so many amazing people into our lives through the communities and churches we have served.
ReplyDeleteI am very thankful for the opportunity to work at my kids school. This allows them to go to a private Montessori school. I get to be near them and enjoy them a lot more than if I wasn't.
ReplyDelete-Elizabeth Yoakum
With tough financial times for us right now, I'm just grateful for the day-to-day little blessings that help us get by!
ReplyDeleteI am forever grateful for all the amazing people in my life and everything that life has given me!!
ReplyDeleteDiane
I am forever grateful for my husband who supported me through nursing school while raising three little ones so that now that the kids are out of the house, I have a career that I absolutely love!
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful for an amazingly healthy and happy boy that I can call my son.
ReplyDeleteI am very grateful for the love & health of my family. I not only feel so blessed to have such a wonderful and supportive husband but four beautiful and intelligent children who bring daily challenges, growth, and love to our lives.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes think like would be better if only we had more money or had nice things, but then I just have to smile as I know that even if I were to lose everything around me or gain all the riches in the world, I would be nothing without my family.
Thanks for letting me share!!
Rebecca Commons
I'm grateful for my family and friends and my wonderful life.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my husband and my two beautiful daughters. I am thankful to have a roof over my head and food on my table. I am thankful for good health and good friends. I am thankful that I live in a free country. Last but certainly not least, I am glad to be associated with CTMH!
ReplyDeleteI was Blessed this month to be able to fly and see my husband who is deployed in Japan thru next February. I am so thankful for having him in my life.
ReplyDeleteThis year has been very hard on my husband and I. I lost my mom in Aug. and three weeks later I lost my mother in law. My husband and I have had to reach out to each other for support. He is wonderful and caring and FINALLY approves my CTMH business. He even added a 19' X 24' room to our house just for my workshops and clubs. And I am grateful for my 2 children. My son is graduating college next month. It took him 6 years but he finally made it.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful that I still have a job, so I can provide a wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner, Christmas Decorations, Christmas Dinner, cookies, and presents for the ones I love. I am just really grateful to be alive each and everyday!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis week I am so grateful for the health and life of my baby boy! Each time he throws food on the floor, dumps out a cupboard or drawer, dances, smiles, and blows me kisses I am reminded how blessed we are to have him here. Last year at this time we were praying for a miracle and waiting for surgery. We re-live that miracle every single day.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful for my husband who is always there for me. The good and the bad he is there to help me through it.
ReplyDeleteI am very thankful for so many things. It is hard to choose just one. But I am blessed to have two beautiful, healthy, and happy children who magnify all the other wonderful things in my life.
ReplyDeleteI am sooo thankful for my wonderful parnter!! He is my world!! I'm also soo thankful for my 2 beautiful children!! I love these 3 with everything I have!!
ReplyDeleteI am very thankful for healthy, loving children who I adore...
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my supportive husband and our three beautiful children, Austin, Mya, and Alayna. I thank God everyday for the blessings we have been given!
ReplyDeleteI am grateful that my daughter is safe and feels loved when there are so many children in the world in bad situations.
ReplyDeleteI am so thankful for a forgiving God. I am also thankful that I live in the United States and for all of the freedoms we have here that other countries do not have. Lyla Crawford from Arkansas
ReplyDeleteI am most thankful for my husband, my children, their spouses, my grandchildren, and a loving and forgiving God. Blessings definitely surround me.
ReplyDeleteIt's so hard to pick just one. Right now I'm most thankful for My father. It's been four years since he passed but I cherish the lessons I learned from him.
ReplyDeleteI am gratful for my health. This coming January is my 10 year breast cancer survivor anniversary. I am gratful for each day that passes that I remain cancer free.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful that I still have a job to go to everyday! So many people are without work it is scary! Also grateful for my family!
ReplyDeleteI am so grateful for my three children and loving husband. I am also really grateful to know that families are eternal!
ReplyDeleteThankful for our Lord Jesus who gave himself for us, and a wonderful family. God has truly blessed me.
ReplyDeleteI have to say the one thing I'm most grateful for is God sending His son, Jesus, to die on the cross for all of mankind sins. WE can NEVER be righteous enough on our own, we can't EARN salvation - it is a free gift of God. I am so thankful to Jesus!!!!
ReplyDeleteI am grateful that in spite of several car accidents causing pain & problems throughout the years I can still craft things to preserve my memories and celebrate my friends & family.
ReplyDeleteI'm profoundly grateful for my kids who have the love of learning. What a gift! We just had parent/teacher conferences...and my kids work hard in school, are good citizens and are respectful. May they enjoy life long learning!
ReplyDeleteI am grateful for three F's, Family, Friends and Faith. All three are uniquely special to me and I love creating scrapbook pages featuring memories and special characteristics. I'm also extremely grateful that my parents sacrificed much to give each of us opportunities to take music lessons, play sports and participate in numerous activities which shaped our character.
ReplyDeleteI am so grateful for my husband of 24 1/2 years. We have both had major health issues and the usual ups and downs, but we are more commited to each other today, than the day we said our I Do's. He is truly a Gift from the Lord to me.
ReplyDeleteVicki Emmerson
I am so thankful for my husband (& his job) for allowing me to quit my awfully stressful, long houred job last year and letting me take a year to decide to find something new. :)
ReplyDeleteI am so thankful for my husband (& his job) for allowing me to quit my awfully stressful, long houred job last year and letting me take a year to decide to find something new. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm most greatful for my children, and my 14 month old "little monster" who's into everything and we are greatful for it. Busy is happy. Goes great with my favourite stamp, party animal!
ReplyDeleteJen Brewer
I'm grateful for my wonderful husband!
ReplyDeleteI am so thankful for the beautiful warm Summer and Fall we have had here in West Michigan. Winter is just around the corner and it stays so long that I really relished all the mild to hot days I have had. I am also thankful for my family and our good health so far this year.
ReplyDeleteI am so grateful to hear this week that my 17 year old daughter was accepted into Abilene Christian University! I know that God will take care of the rest (how to pay for it). I know that if He has brought her here and put it on her heart to go to school here, that He will provide a way
ReplyDeleteAs I sit here to write this comment I have just sat down for the day and finally have time to myself. There are so many times in the day when I wish I had more "Me" time. Then I realize why I am just sitting down. I have a wonderful Husband and two beautiful daughters who are 19 months and 4.5 months old who I was interacting with all night because I did not get to pick them up from daycare until after school let out. See I am also a teacher to 135 precious tweens/teens of other parents. So I may get frustrated at my 135 or my two but I am extremely blessed to be affecting the growth and maturity of 137 children this year and I need to remember that when I am frustrated, stressed, and exhausted. I hope and pray that I am making a difference in these kids. For some the hug, smile, or words of praise I give will be the only one they recieve that day.
ReplyDeleteHi Jeanette! Love your post!
ReplyDeleteThe one thing I am profoundly grateful for today is that my first chemo treatment didn't make me sick and that there are great helps that make that happen! Praise the Lord!
Love you, miss you, and have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Terri Allshouse
California
I am grateful for my God and my family.
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Gini
I am grateful for my family-my husband Joe of 35 years, 2 daughters, 2 sons, 2 son in laws, 1daughter in law and 10 beautiful grandchildren. As we gather for our thanksgiving celebration we are especially grateful for our son Joe who serves in the United States Air Force in Afghanistan. As we gather we will prepare a care package for him with homemade cards, his favorite foods, the children have already prepared their drawn pictures and other items that he can share with his squadron. He will get a little piece of home. All thou he will not be able to be with us during the holidays he will know that we are so proud of not only his accompolishments but his daily sacrifices he makes to help keep this great nation safe. We are looking forward to March 2011 when he returns to his 3 young children and this wonderful family will be reunited again.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my life. I wouldn't go back and change it. It has made me who I am today.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful for my loving family, my faith in God and my freedom. How blessed I am.
ReplyDeleteI am so thankful for my husband. He works so hard to provide for our family, allowing me to stay home to raise our 2 kids. He loves me unconditionally... wrinkles, rolls, temper tantrums, etc. and all. I cannot imagine my life without him. He truly is my better half!
ReplyDeleteGood luck to everyone!!
I am grateful for my wonderful husband and kids. I am also very grateful for a doctor that listened to me and found the source of my health issues!
ReplyDeleteMy husband and family who are truly supporting me in my decision to quit my day job and do CTMH full time. What a ride it has been these last few months, straight up!!!
ReplyDeleteThis year I am particularly thankful for the new school that all 3 of my children are attending. It is a Christian school, and there has been such a wonderful change in them. Their teachers truly care about them and the kids feel it and are thankful for their teachers! It is a great environment and I am so thankful for their school.
ReplyDeleteWe've recently moved to Puebla, Mexico for my husband job for a commitment of 2 years. I am so extremely grateful for how God has provided us a home (that was actually fully furnished saving us TONS of money) and a home that is in a community which has been a tremendous help in my adjustment to this new culture. I'm so thankful for my sweet husband who listens to me patiently as I share my burdens and challenges of being oversees and I'm thankful for the grace God has provided in caring for two kids (3 and 1 years old) as I carry around a baby due in March! YIKES! God's grace is surely sufficient and I am so thankful!
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my family and my CTMH consultant has become that over the past eight years! I think this company needs more recognition for its wonderful products!!! I love your CTMH TV episodes and your "make it from your heart"! <3
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for my beautiful daughter who makes me so very proud.
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I am extremely thankful for the new home that we finally moved into after a very lengthy purchase process. I'm thankful for two jobs that I love, a loving husband and two beautiful children.
ReplyDeletei am very blessed to have a loving and very supportive husband... specially because he fills the void of children in my life too...
ReplyDeleteand i am also grateful to God for giving me a hobby that i am able to passionately pursue... Luckily!!!
I am so thankful for a wonderful, patient, loving husband and our two awesome kiddos. Thankful that I am able to be a CTMH consultant and all the great friends it has brought into my life!!!
ReplyDeleteI am overwhelmed with thankfulness that My Thanksgiving Feast that I organize and Cook for went so smooth. It turned out Beautifully. It was a Tremdous Blessing we had more than enough food to feed 400 folks - kids, parents, relatives and needy families. Being a Consultant has made me quite the Party planner. I am forever Thankful. - Amy Roberts, Norwalk CA
ReplyDeleteWell, here in Canada we have already celebrated Thanksgiving Day this year on Oct 11th. I am profoundly grateful and blessed for the good health that God has intended for me and my family. - Joanne Jay, Kelowna, BC Canada
ReplyDeleteI am grateful for my family, who love me unconditionally and eternally.
ReplyDeleteI'm so thankful for my family, especially my baby grandson Justin, and the time we get to spend together.
ReplyDeletei am thankful for my CTMH consultant here in Spain...she's not only a Rising Star, but she's a wonderful, Jesus-loving friend!
ReplyDeleteI am greatful for being able to enjoy my boys everyday and the strength to continue striving for more each day.
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