April 8

He has a red ball to match those shoes.

I'm grateful that the weather cooperated for the first game of the youth soccer season. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, and I actually ended up with a slightly sunburned forehead and cheeks. Luke's team, the Golden Dragons, got beat at their first game, but they played well and had a great time.

April 7

It never fails. Things can be so slow at work that the days are painful, but when I actually have to be physically elsewhere, suddenly an entire report needs to be pulled together and published pronto.

I'm grateful I managed to get this 80-page puppy with 50+ figures done and printed just minutes before meeting my carpool to travel over the mountains to perform the Messiah.

April 6

I'm grateful that in 1741, Handel was bummed out enough to take on a buddy's challenge and write the Messiah in 24 days. Tonight was dress rehearsal (tomorrow night and Saturday night are the performances) and when you put all the musicians together, well, the result is just beyond words.

April 5

Last week as I was making my way up the hill in yet another rainstorm, my wiperblade suddenly did a somersault and ended up perpendicular to the window. Due to the splendid engineering on my Made-in-America car, it took the combined efforts of three of my co-workers to replace it.

Tonight, as my twin blades wiped the snowslush flawlessly from my view, I remembered their hard work and am grateful for it!

April 4

I'm grateful for the color green.

Although the rain was beginning to come down heavily and the light was quickly leaving, the fields lining the side of the road glowed. After wintertime, the color green imparts an even better promise than all the colors of the rainbow.

April 3

The flu bug got us four for four.

Luke's dance (beginning last night around midnight) seemed substantially more painful than what Hart and I had experienced. As I listened to him cry when the cramps would hit, I had flashbacks to his trials with colic as an infant. By this afternoon, when the pain still had not subsided and he continued to keep nothing down, we drove him straight to InstaCare.

I'm grateful we did because the very nice doctor gave us a lovely prescription which he promised would take care of the cramping pain. He was right. Luke finally fell to sleep which means that we get to sleep too!

April 2

Yeah, this is my third drug-related photo this year... But oh, I am so very grateful that by 5:57 p.m. on Sunday I woke up without the nausea, chills, vomiting and dreadful bodyaches that had overtaken both Hart and I this weekend. That nasty bug swept through our household like wildfire. I apologize in advance for any pain and suffering we may have unknowingly passed on to our acquaintances during our social activity this week.