{"id":5676,"date":"2013-02-26T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/?p=5676"},"modified":"2013-02-26T07:28:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T14:28:22","slug":"thankful-tuesday-joy-in-the-drudgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2013\/02\/thankful-tuesday-joy-in-the-drudgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Tuesday: Joy in the Drudgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/p>\n<p>Chris has been out of town for one whole day and already the boys have erupted into dramatic weeping shanigans. (Both lasting longer than 20 minutes.) I\u2019m spent.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I\u2019m thankful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For Brooksie\u2019s intense love for his dad, even if yesterday his response to my comforting words, \u201cMama loves you,\u201d were \u201cNo! Daddy!\u201d (Last week the whole Daddy Phase was cute but now I\u2019m kind of over it. Even so! I\u2019m grateful he loves his dad.)<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m thankful for afternoons to watch August play at the park with his friends from school. I can\u2019t believe what a big kid he is becoming and I love seeing how he\u2019s learning relationships.<\/li>\n<li>For Liz\u2019s amazing Oscars party. Dishes named for the movies: Crabby snacks and homemades, anyone? (Also, Moonpie Kingdom!) That Jennifer Lawrence won. (I love that girl.) For the chance to go out in a dress-up-dress and heels and walk down a city sidewalk under the stars all by myself, listening to my heels click click click down the pavement.<\/li>\n<li>Friends like Cecelia and Steve who want to stay with our kids and send us out on dates. We have it so good.<\/li>\n<li>For the blizzard in my hometown yesterday. Even though I was not there to see all 19 inches fall in Amarillo, Texas, I got to experience it over Instagram and it was awesome.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m thankful our landlord is having the house painted. It will look nice. Even if those painters are scraping and hammering outside my baby\u2019s window all day. <em>I will be grateful\u2026I will be grateful\u2026<\/em><\/li>\n<li>For rest at the end of a long day. For joy in the drudgery. For a day where I didn\u2019t lose my cool, even when my kids did. (Miracle.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link up or leave a comment with your own list of Thankfuls!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris has been out of town for one whole day and already the boys have erupted into dramatic weeping shanigans. (Both lasting longer than 20 minutes.) I\u2019m spent. Also, I\u2019m thankful: For Brooksie\u2019s intense love for his dad, even if yesterday his response to my comforting words, \u201cMama loves you,\u201d were \u201cNo! 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