Poems of Gratitude

Mother, Mother, oh so nice
When you hug me tight
You give me delight

By: Hannah Wood(9)


Christmas is Jesus Birthday.
He love's all of the people in the World.
He gives us a lot.
I love Jesus because he gave me my Life and made me.
I Love Love Love Love my family and Jesus.

by: Isabel Wood(71/2)

At random times during this past month I recieved these poems in notes from my girls. I am grateful to them for their simple expressions of love.

There are so many things in my life to be grateful for. Last week I had the opportunity to give a short talk on Gratitude journals. Gratitude is a way for us to remember the many ways the Lord has blessed us in our lives. With the help of the Holy Ghost more memories of past blessings will come to our minds. As this begins to happen our hearts are softened as we remember. We realize that the Lord is mindful of each of us everyday of our lives.

Recently I have been having difficulty nursing Grace. First is was a yeast infection which I battled for a month. After that was finally cleared up Grace broke a top tooth. I had no problems with her bottom teeth coming in. This top tooth has rubbed my nipple raw and extremely painful to nurse. My first reaction is to focus on the negative, the pain and inconvience of the medication. Instead of the huge blessing that nursing has been for me. When Grace was born I was so affraid of not being able to nurse her at all. But it came with ease and was almost pain free. Look how long I've nursed her, almost 10 months. In addition to that I've acutally enjoyed nursing.

I am grateful to have nursed Grace for as long as I have. But the pain is just too much. I have to surrender to the pain and stop. Even though this decision was hard for me, my heart is full.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.