NoThanks – Day Sixteen

Today I’m thankful for reserves. As in underwear reserves. You know. That pair you don’t really like, but you keep for emergencies such as when you have run out of clean bloomers. What I refer to as auxiliary choners. I was glad to have such a backup this morning so I didn’t have to wear…

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NoThanks – Day Fifteen

Today I’m thankful for children who can drive. This morning I texted Katie a short list of grocery items we needed to make a sweet potato casserole for her bible study group and mini cheesecakes for a fundraiser on Saturday. Early this afternoon I texted her with a request to get some coffee for work…

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NoThanks – Day Fourteen

Today I am thankful for busyness. If you know me, I mean really know me, you know I don’t like busy. Too much busy makes me crazy and then I start feeling overwhelmed and I just want to run away and hide in the back of my closet. Not on the side with the shoes…

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NoThanks – Day Thirteen

I’m thankful for access to medicines. I had plans for this evening. Plans that included a little housework and a lot of blogging. Instead I came home from work about 15 minutes early with an excruciating headache. The kind of headache that required medicinal intervention and a rest in the bed for 45 minutes or…

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NoThanks – Day Eleven

I had another long day on the road today so this will be day three of a very short thankful post. But really, what I have to be thankful for today doesn’t require a lot of words. I am thankful for all those who have served in the military so I can enjoy life and…

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NoThanks – Day Ten

Tonight I’m thankful for the many great moments I had today, a portion of which included both my kids. And that’s all the writing I can muster. I’m whooped from all those great moments today. So whooped I couldn’t manage to take my computer out of the bag so I’m writing this on my phone.…

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NoThanks – Day Nine; A Thankful Interview

Katie and I are going to a college open house tomorrow morning so we’re hanging out in a hotel room in Southern Virginia. It was a long (but fun) day and I’m totally exhausted, but I don’t want to blow my record before we’re even a third of the way through the month. So today’s…

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