{"id":565,"date":"2011-03-18T09:05:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T09:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2011\/03\/what-are-you-grateful-for-today.html"},"modified":"2011-03-18T09:05:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T09:05:04","slug":"what-are-you-grateful-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2011\/03\/what-are-you-grateful-for-today.html","title":{"rendered":"What are you Grateful for Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/IMG_6537.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6537.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/113\/import\/assets_c\/2011\/03\/IMG_6537-thumb-200x244-22098.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"244\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>I went for a walk with Marilee yesterday. It was beautiful down by the water, with a crisp breeze that hints of spring, with daffodils peeking out of the ground and snowdrops lining the road in patches. It was a day to be grateful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As it turned out, we were grateful for more than just the beauty of the water and the sunset and the birds in flight. I took Marilee to the doctor, and all is well. She&#8217;s gained three pounds in the past four weeks. She&#8217;s hearty and happy and sleeping well. We are grateful. We also found out that William got in, via a lottery, to the preschool we had hoped he could enter next year. It&#8217;s the same school where Penny spent two years, a public pre-school with an integrated class of kids with special needs and others who are typically developing. William will follow in his sister&#8217;s footsteps with her phenomenal teachers (we&#8217;ll call them all Miss K for the moment), although he will do so without an IEP (Individualized Education Plan) and therapists and evaluations. We are grateful.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We sat as a family at dinner last night. We were all eating pizza (I haven&#8217;t managed to cook a real meal in the past six weeks), and Peter was rocking Marilee back to sleep. All of a sudden he said, &#8220;Guys, I want to say thank you to God for the beautiful day!&#8221; William responded, &#8220;And I want to say thank you God for Miss K&#8217;s class!&#8221; He clasped his hands and bowed his head and whispered the words again.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Later as I was putting him to bed, I said, &#8220;William, I&#8217;m grateful that God gave us you.&#8221; He beamed and replied, &#8220;And that God gave us Marilee and Penny and Mom and Dad.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yep. 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