Oops!  I almost forgot today is Thankful Thursday!  Since I'm already up past when I was hoping to go to bed, I'll keep this short.  The first thing that popped into my head for Thankful Thursday was "work."  Sometimes I have bad days at work.  Some days, I wish that I could be at home with hubby and Bailey watching Food Network and doing some crafty thing all day.  Sometimes, I wish that I could spend all my time at home vegging out – all day, every day.  But, I try to remind myself that being at work is a great thing.  It means I'm blessed enough to have a job, which truly is a wonderful thing in this economy.  Several of my friends have recently been laid off and seeing them struggle to find new jobs reinforces this idea.  I will continue to remind myself about these thoughts when the alarm clock wakes me up "too early" tomorrow morning.  lol.  Till then, have a great night all!

So, I guess I've forgotten to do the last Thankful Thursday or so. New habits are hard to get into, aren't they?  Anywho, I'd like to post more, but I spent most of the night trying to figure out how to do the Satin-binding fleece blanket project from my Sew Simple magazine.  I expected to finish the whole thing tonight (it looked so deceptively simple in the mag), but I only got two edges done and it's just after midnight, I'm so ready for bed.

I think I accidentally signed up for a contest over at There is No Place Like Home before I read the rules…oopsie!  Rather than ignore the contest, I'd like to take this opportunity to participate in the challenge by talking about what I'm thankful for.  Remember that post about the Real Simple article on gratitude I posted awhile back?  One thing I forgot to mention in the post is that (in addition to the stuff I mentioned in the post), I'd also like to work on being more thankful for what I have rather than looking at what I don't.  It's easy to point out things you don't have or things that could be better, but I don't want to take the gifts I do have for granted.  I'm thinking of trying to do a daily or monthly post about gratitude.  What do you think?  Maybe Thankful Thursday?  I think someone already does this, but it's for a good cause, right?

Btw, I just re-read Kelli's blog a bit and it looks like I'm supposed to do a daily or weekly challenge that she specifies.  I thought I was supposed to pick from the bulleted list she had in a previous post, but I'm still going to post this blog. I've been meaning to blog about gratitude for awhile now anyways…ever since I read the Real Simple article, at least.  Now, for the contest…I'm thinking I'm going to have to dig my paper-crafting supplies from my mess of a craft room and put something together.  This could be fun!