thankfully.

i win the award for the blurriest, low quality photo every. thank you. 

 

don't you just love when the day you planned in your head goes exactly opposite to it?

yep, me neither.

we woke up sunday morning, refreshed from the extra hour of sleep which really i just spent painting so not much extra sleep there, but  still felt somewhat refreshed, thankfully.
we had quite a bit of things to do, so we got up pretty quickly and decided to take the day on early enough.
sat at a little mexican restaurant for breakfast, and thankfully had some really good conversation then headed out for some shopping and spending good quality time together.
fast forward about thirty minutes,we were sitting in the mall parking lot, with a vehicle that was then malfunctioning.

thankfully, we are able to take it in to the nearest repair shop, where we were charged a pretty penny, and were then without a vehicle for the next several hours.
thankfully, there was a target a little walk away where we were able to go in and get some stuff that we needed. i would've liked to shop for pretty things that were not necessarily needed, but our money had just been handed over to the mechanics to get our car healed. boo.

thankfully, we were able to sit at the little cafe area and enjoy some popcorn and drinks while we waited for my sister to come and pick us up.
thakfully i have a sister who is close by and loves me enough to pick up some stranded family members.
thankfully, even though our experience for the day was a little sour, on our way home we had uplifted spirits to play a game of 'guess what am i.'
nobody guessed mine. i was grass.

thankfully when we got home and realized we had handed the keys to the mechanic and had failed to take out our house key, we didn't burst out in tears. when i write 'we' i obviously mean me.
thankfully, we were able to find a way in and didn't have to drive all the way back to the mechanic's to get the keys.

thankfully when my husband tried to give my sister some cash for her inconvenience, she refused and said words that i am so terribly thankful for.

'no i couldn't. we are family, that's what family does.'

thankfully i am reminded daily there's still lots to be thankful for, even in the middle of life's not so ideal experiences here and there.

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