Attitude of Gratitude - Miscellany

It's a dreary, pre-winter-feels-like-winter day outside. The rain has been consistently falling. And it's Monday. Usually days like this find me a bit stuck, unmotivated, distracted. I wouldn't say I'm having a fantastic, enthusiastic type of day, but I am having a quiet, productive kind of day, checking things off my to-do list and finding myself thankful for a variety of things. Thus, today's miscellany:

• Finding a hotel room for an event in a few weeks when practically everything is booked.
• AAA discount for that hotel room.
• Inventorying the freezer and realizing how much food we have.
• The freezer, which is probably as old as I am and was a no-cost, gracious hand-me-down that has proven so helpful.
• Anticipating a delivery of local beef from a farm a few miles up the road from a farmer family with whom we attend church.
• Discovering homemade (not by me) egg rolls hiding in the freezer - delicious for lunch.
• Leaf collectors who come even on the cold, rainy days to clear raked leaves waiting by the curb.
• Laundry that's almost complete.
• Dogs who have been content to stay inside, but are soon going to be antsy to get outside.
• Getting to hug our sweet granddaughter tonight.

That's enough to keep a girl going on a rainy Monday.