Thankgiving - Tag, I'm it!

Miss Smartie Pants tagged me for 5 things I am thankful for. Very appropriate during this time of Thanksgiving and the beginning of the Christmas season. So here goes, and I tend to be a thankful spirit, so forgive me if it runs long.

• I am thankful that I have a wonderful husband, (who makes me smile and laugh every day), and three beautiful children that are healthy, happy (most of the time) and have the ability to make me realize a rainbow is a beautiful sight, that should be enjoyed immensely.
• Next up, my parents and sister. I am thankful that I have great relationships with them, and that they are some of my best friends in the whole world. I am thankful for the unconditional love that they bestow upon me, my husband and on my children.
• I am also thankful for family that reads this blog, that I e-mail every now and again or talk to on the phone every once in awhile. A once removed cousin that stops by when my children are born, another who comes to visit when we are up north, a cousin that calls to tell me she is having a baby or another that is willing to pick me up at the airport when I am popping into town and need help. Aunts that are my second mother and I can call when I need Mom help raising boys, and Uncles that share their love of wood working with my children.
• Family that came before me. I am blessed to have known all of my grandparents. I remeber them, I have great memories of them, and I miss them. I am thankful for all of the love they shared with me and all of the traditions that I get from them that carry on to my family. Home baked bread waiting for me when I got home, vitamin e carefully rubbed on my owies, summers of timed water races, Camp Grandma, and checking out books at the library. A love of cooking, and knowing, that whatever I make, it perfect, just perfect.
• Last but not least, I am a simple girl, who is thankful for the simple things in life. A good rain in the desert, the smell of fresh basil that I am able to grow in my back yard, the belly laugh of my children, the small treasures The Present brings me randomly, an unexpected card in the mail, and the list goes on.

Thanks Miss Smarty Pants for making me stop, to think of the the things I am thankful for. It has been fun to post.