Thankfulness in November

I see on Facebook that many people are taking time to list one thing they are thankful for each day in the month of November. I love that idea! So often we are striving for bigger and better that we forget to look around and see what we are already blessed with! Of course I am thankful for my family, home, jobs, my children, health, my country…. I could go on and on, but I find what is most helpful for me is to each day stop and find what I am thankful for in that moment. it can be the smallest and most insignificant thing, but in that moment it can be huge! If I can stop in a chaotic moment all the better! It's the little bits of thankfulness that make everything else do able! It's a child sleeping in until 6am. It's the dog not jumping on a visitor. It's a fun catalog in the mailbox. It's a little bit of sunshine through the clouds making me put on my sunglasses. It's the smiles I get when the kids come home. It's the cuddles and s