I’m having trouble finding good things to think about the past few days.  But there is this:

I got a new dishwasher for Christmas.

Tim spent most of a Saturday running water pipes and drain pipes and new wiring in order to install it in what will, likely, be only its temporary home.  I have been without a dishwasher for two years.  Kids have been learning to wash dishes, but really, there are just so many when all of us eat every meal at home.  So, even though Tim’s ideal is that we could figure out a way to do without a dishwasher, he knew that it would make my life easier to have one.  And it has.  I have almost cried from relief at not seeing piles of dishes at the end of the day .  Maybe it seems like a small thing, but it is huge to me.  I am thankful.