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Today I'm feeling grateful that I have a choice to kick the old to the curb and allow the new to enter in. This Gratitude Attitude for today actually has its beginnings earlier in the week.  The hub and I went on a date. The weather altered his plans for us so Plan B was the furniture store to just look, again, at couches.  We are in desperate need of new couches as the picture I put below will show you. But darn it all if furniture isn't expensive and we need to feed our children! So we've been looking for new couches for a couple of years - no joke.  But a few days ago we decided we were going to bite the bullet and just do it, I can hardly stand to sit on our current set. (Yes, this is a total first world issue.  I'm so aware of how first world it is.) So because we weren't super serious about actually looking or buying the other day we found something!  Of course, that's like Murphy's Law right?  So what the heck am I saying in all of this babbling ab...

Today I participated in celebrating new life that is about to enter the world and the enter the family of dear friends.  I was thinking about how grateful I am that we are given new life to celebrate and rejoice over in the midst of life that may be passing or fading away.  It's a gift to have both. Celebrating new life is so much fun!  We rub her belly (those of us who are allowed) and we talk to her and we wonder with anticipation how this little new life will mark the world with her presence (this new life happens to be a girl).  New life is hope for all of us.  Hope for our futures, for our own families, for things yet to be revealed.