Thankfulness at your fingertips

THIS APP IS PERFECT!!  I'm so happy for it... though I'm happier for the reminder to be ever thankful. You know, that thing Ann is always saying and sometimes it goes in one ear and out the other...  Please don't stop saying it, Ann. Oh, how we need every single reminder! 

In the past, I always journaled my thanks. But, at some point I reverted to only blogging them... it was convenient. I got used to it, and I liked to put my pictures there with the words and writing and seeing... I felt MORE thankful. But an unforeseen problem arose... I took 6 months off blogging (while on furlough) and you know what happened?! Apparently, I took a vacation from being thankful. It's that easy. The traveling, the changes, the no blogging, and I stopped. I stopped sharing what I was thankful for. Eventually, I stopped remembering what I was thankful for. Unconscious of the gravity of the problem, but there I was.

6 months later. SIX WHOLE MONTHS!  I can safely say that I can SEE the result of not consciously continuing in gratitude!  UGH.  Stress levels are higher, peace is less prevalent and yeah. So, I've known it for a little while now (He whispers, doesn't He?). And finally, I'm doing something about it. This Thanksgiving week, we're inaugurating a family gratitude journal... but I can't wait to continue it throughout the year, for as many years as I have children, and beyond. That way, blog or no blog, we will continue to grapple with gratitude in big things and small.  I'm looking forward to trying out the app too! I hope it will work on an ipod touch?! I think it's another GREAT way to keep the need to be thankful ever before us!

Thanks Ann! :)