Mom knows best

Today while T.J. and I were at lunch, my mom called to say hi and then talked to T.J. about his birthday.  She gave him words of advice saying, number each day and be grateful for everything you have.

I don’t know why, but lately I’ve been quite a pessimist.  I think it’s just because change is hard, even if it’s good change.  I don’t always look at what I have, but instead I think about everything that is going wrong.  But my mom is right.  I need to appreciate each day and everything in it.

So after they got off the phone, I was laying on the hammock and T.J. proceeded to tell me all the blessings in my life.  Some of them were so presh and a little funny, so here are a few he mentioned and a few others:

• witty parents
• a beautiful niece and another on the way
• a hammock
• a [handsome] husband
• the weekend
• blue sky and green trees
• a job and an internship
• a major
• my clothes, purses, sunglasses, and headbands
• the gospel
• great in-laws
• the condo
• summer
• diet coke
• the office, arrested development, parks and rec, and glee

Of course after he said a huge long list of the blessings in my life, I said, “I wish we had a puppy.”