Count Your Blessings

It's National Bluebird of Happiness Day again, September 24.  It is a good time to count our blessings.  Throughout the day, we would mention things that were blessings.  It was great.  While the older kids were at school, Jeremy had a meeting at Thanksgiving Point.  Jr. Jr. and I took the opportunity to go with him. 

The three of us had a picnic together then while Jeremy went to his meeting, Jr. Jr. and I went to the North American Museum of Ancient Life, the "dinosaur museum."
Jr. Jr. had some hands on fun in the "Tinkering" exhibit.  

When Jeremy was done with his meeting, he met us there then we spent some time in the main part of the museum.  Jr. Jr. wanted to go through the "star room" (a very very dark room with tiny lights all over depicting the Earth's beginning) over and over and over.  He also had fun with some of the hands on exhibits.  

The museum has a spot where you can see people doing actual work on bones, getting them out of rock, etc.  You're on one side of the glass and you can see into the room where they're working.  There was a man working on some vertebrae of a long-necked dinosaur.  He took time to stop and point out several bones in the room for us and pointed to where they would be located on a little toy long-necked dinosaur.  That was fun.
After Thanksgiving Point, we stopped by the Orem Library to drop off and pick up a few things.  This morning, Jr. asked if we were going to watch The Blue Bird movie like we did last year for the holiday.  The library didn't have the Shirley Temple version, but they had another version that was a silent film.  We checked that one out and the kids and I watched part of it tonight.  We'll finish it later.

And at dinner, the kids didn't complain at all.  That's a blessing right there.  Jr. even made a portrait of me out of some of his food.  What a sweetheart.

We really do have so much to be grateful for, so many blessings.  Sure, there are some things we don't have, some things that other people have that we have to do without at this point, but looking at what we do have, we have so much.  And we don't have to look elsewhere to find those blessings.  The bluebird of happiness is right here in our own family, in our own home, in our own Utah County.