I love reading everyone's Thankful updates on Facebook each day of November. But sometimes it's just too much and the other people are just so happy and blessed and perfect that it makes me feel snarky. I tried doing mine a few years ago because I really have plenty to be thankful for, but this year I'm just not feeling it. So, I decided to do my own take on a Thankful list, full of sarcasm, bitterness and silliness.
Day 1: Today I'm thankful that Halloween is over and I have 8lbs of candy to try to hide from the kids (and myself) since the Hubs wouldn't let me throw it away.
Day 2: Today I'm thankful that I get to go to work for the 6th day this week and get away from the chaos that is my house on the weekend--tball, volleyball, cheerleading and a birthday party all in one day!
Day 3: It's Sunday but its Daylight WASTING time now and I'm so thankful that my wonderful kids woke me up super early so that I can take full advantage of my extra hour to do the cooking, cleaning, dishes and laundry that fill my joyous 1 day off.
Day 4: I'm Thankful for Mondays so that I can get up at 5am to workout and then get 3 kids ready and to school on time so that I can stumble into work...AGAIN!
Day 5: OMG I'm so happy to see every store decked out in red and green, to see that my perfect neighbors have Christmas lights up already, and the wonderful flipping Christmas commercials, music and movies already. It all makes me feel like I'm already behind and need to be Christmas shopping, and it's only November 5th! We still have 7 more weeks of this fun!
Day 6: Thankful for the stupid Credit Union where I applied for a car loan that is making me run all over the place getting documents together so that I can get my new car. Great service always makes me happy! NOT!
Day 7: Today is Thursday and I'm sooo thankful that it's picture retake day for my 4th grader as we never take good school pictures in my family. Plus, it's really fun to fight with your daughter on 6 different outfits and then do her hair while she screams and cries and then race her to school so she's not late. Oh, and I'm so thankful that we have tball and volleyball practice tonight, racing across town in traffic and throwing food at the kids before racing to practice is always the highlight of my week.
Day 8: Thankful for Fridays so that I can spend my weekends resting and recharging--ha ha, wouldn't that be nice? SAID NO MOTHER EVER!
Day 9: Today I'm thankful that the hubs is taking son to his tball game and I only have to cart the daughters to 5 places before dumping them on my Mom for 2 hours to go to an engagement party. 2 WHOLE HOURS FREE WITH NO KIDS and free food and WINE!!! Oh, but just for karma's sake, our dog died today, so just when I was so excited to catch a break, that happens. And of course the vet is closed so we are left with a body bag to have to deal with.
Day 10: Thankful for a Sunday that again involves cooking, cleaning, dishes, laundry, organizing and general slave labor. And for the fact that the 3 rugrats can come and undo everything I worked on in 30 seconds flat.
Day 11: SOOOO thankful to live in one of the hipest, top of every list, beautiful cities in the country. LOVE all the looney people moving here and the wonderfully chart topping traffic. SO thankful to spend more time in my car each day than at home.
Day 12: I'm thankful for the chance to bust my butt continuously and sit in traffic for 15 hours a WEEK to get to work (work is supposed to be my down time)--only to then deal with people that yell at me over things I can't control and put me in a horrible mood. So thankful for the privilege to work, thanks all those women's lib ladies, you really helped us Mothers out! Now we HAVE to work and CAN'T stay home! And, we are underpaid, over worked and under appreciated (and still treated like we should be at home anyway).
Day 13: Thankful for the small town cop that pulled me over at 5am for swerving and interrogated me for 10 minutes thinking he had a DWI on his hands. I swear I was half asleep in 32 degree weather trying to get to flipping BOOT CAMP and couldn't think of any excuse other than that I was tired...thanks for only giving me a warning after searching my car and asking me at least 20 questions. Thankful that he didn't make me walk the line though, not sure I could have at that time of morning.
