It's still Friday, so I still have a chance to uphold my commitment to making my Friday blog about gratefulness.

I gotta' admit, today went nothing like I planned. Life feels rather haphazard these days. I don't know if it's my fault or just the season of life I'm in.

Even in the midst of interruptions and competing time demands, there is reason to be thankful. It may take me longer to figure out what exactly--but that's all the more reason to be intentional.

So, as today winds down, I am thankful for the monster blizzard that roared through Colorado Springs yesterday. My To Do list was abandoned and I spent the day with my husband and my youngest daughter. We watched the wind blow and the snow pile up higher and higher. We baked fresh bread and made homemade vegetable soup. We read three or four chapters of Farmer Boy (the third book in the Little House series.) We watched a silly Disney movie and laughed at our two dogs--a 90 pound lab and a twelve pound mini-dachsund--romp in the snowdrifts in our backyard.

That was a good day.

And I'm thankful that around here snow doesn't last long. The sun was shining again today, even as snow covered the mountains.

I'm thankful for time with friends--and a little bit of time to myself.

May your days be anchored in gratefulness.