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Blink. Four months have passed since my last post. Oops.

I can't recreate four months of thankfuls, but know they were plentiful and included a trip to the beach and to Nashville with my husband, spending time with lifelong friends in Kansas City, seeing Sara Evans in concert, turning *cough cough* 65, getting tickets to see Nate Bargatze some time after the first of the year, the start of a new school year. 

Now this week's Ten Things of Thankful - aaaaaand go!

1. I cut bangs this summer and that is not a thankful (IYKYK). My husband walked by the bathroom right after the deed was done. He came back, stood in the doorway, and said, "Ohhhh, I've watched enough TikTok's to know that cutting your bangs is a cry for help and you're really stressed!"

He wasn't wrong, but did I stop at the bangs? I did not. I cut six inches off the back as well and kept hacking at it (trying to even it up, ya know), until I did a pretty fair job of butchering it. Three months later and it's not horrible anymore! Big thankful!

2. My husband and I went to Silver Dollar City last weekend. The weather was unseasonably warm, the park not too crowded, and the lights spectacular.

3. I ran into a thrift store when I had time to kill between work and a meeting and found not one, but TWO pairs of leather cowboy boots, one black and one brown. The brown pair is pretty, um, broken in, but that also equals comfortable. Best part? One pair was $17.00, the other was $10.00.

4. After much research, I finally found a thrift store in Branson that would not only take used mattresses, but that would pick them up as well! We had a queen mattress and box spring, as well as two twin sets, all with bed frames. It was fantastic to finally get them out of the basement.

5. I'm thankful my husband and I were able to get the mattresses, box springs, head boards, foot boards, bed rails, and slats out of the basement, through the back yard, up a hill (dodging a propane tank and a multitude of tree roots each trip), around the house, across the driveway, and into the garage without hurting ourselves or killing each other. Please note this is the same place I lost an entire table into the lake in July....

6. I got all my summer clothes put away and the winter ones out just in time for temps to return to the 80s....

7. We drove to Kansas City this weekend to hang out with our daughter for a couple of days (never mind that she's coming down for Thanksgiving in three days). Now that it's dark at 5:00, our two hour trip on Friday evening was spent watching for deer (saw none) and trying to see the seemingly non-existent lines on the highway after it began raining just as we got close to Kansas City. The highway department seriously needs to repaint the lines on I-49 from Harrisonville to Kansas City, but we made it safely in spite of making it on a wish and a prayer.

8. I found my dad's favorite Christmas candy at World Market. 

9. I got to attend church in person today instead of online. The only unthankful part of that was my buddy Ken was sick and didn't attend, but I got to join the online chat from my pew at church, and when I went down for communion, I waved to him via the cameras (three times, since there were three cameras).

10. Tomorrow starts Thanksgiving week, and ordinarily it would be a two-day work week for me, but I took those two days off and I have a ZERO day work week. Yippeeeeee!!!

I did it! Just like riding a bicycle (only to be honest, I'm pretty sure if I tried to ride a bicycle again it would probably not end well), and I'm back in the hop! Remember your thankfuls always and in all ways.

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