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Lying on the couch here with what seems to be yet another breast infection :( Ben took V to get a new battery because he'd wedged the car against the garage while we were gone to avoid another hoodlum taking our stuff. Unfortunately the battery died and we can't reach it to jump with the truck [the truck which slid on ice after skiing, smashing into a rock-hard snowbank], therefore impeding us from getting in the garage. Another stroke of 'bad luck' that night we came home was a furnace that wouldn't turn on. It was FORTYEIGHT degrees in here!! I'm already a wimp regarding the cold and it was COLD. Thankfully it fixed itself sometime in the middle of the night.

All this leads me to say that I am so thankful for the good things we have going. Namely our two healthy, wonderful children and Ben and Liz' safety in the snowbank crash [and a house to live in and a car to drive and food to eat that in turn helps me feed my baby...]. It could be so much worse, thinking about the trials others go through. The big homeless population here in Salt Lake who endure colder than I did, the children in the World Vision news we receive, the loss of a college friend of Ben's newborn son. Really we are so blessed and I am so thankful for what we've been given. I didn't start out this post to write this - I was going to post the video I just took of sweetie Edie cooing to me from her bouncy chair [she's starting to complain now...]. Anyway, look to the "good words" to the right of the blog - those are the words that should constantly be in my heart and on my lips!

cute and cute, I love this little bug and am so thankful for her:

*You might be inclined to think that life's difficulties and tragedies are evidence of the lack of God's goodness, or even His nonexistence - I was touched and encouraged by Dan's thoughts after his son's death.