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136. So grateful that the skies overhead cease to impress me.  On our way home from work/school today we followed a hot air balloon to find it making a brief descent right over the big park (the same one that the cows prefer to graze at) in our community.  It was a moment that made all others in the day vanish.

137. Going home to get Molly and walking back to the park to catch the rest of the sunset.  At first glance I didn't notice, but I stopped for a minute to take in the expansive Arizona sky and saw contrasting streaks of orange and blue, a gorgeous variation of a sunset.

138. Superglue, white caulk, and hope.  Lily's ceramic turtle, fondly named Shuttles, that Nonna brought back from Hawaii had an accident in the shower a couple nights ago.  To say Lily was heartbroken just doesn't describe the sorrow she felt for two days.  So we operated last night and tested her out in the open waters of the tub tonight.  She floated!  It was a very happy night at our house.

139.  Thanks to a co worker's hand-me-down, the Thanksgiving issue of Real Simple magazine waiting for me to indulge in its pages.

140.  Getting to know someone new at lunch today.

141.  Mended, renewed relationships.

142.  Sleeping through the night without being woken up by little people.

143. Grateful for my relatives who shared a Guinness with Andy while he's away in St. Louis and for what genuine, loving, warm, kind, funny people they are.

144. Just us girls:)

145. Hearing the girls say goodnight to their Dad miles away, but feeling like he's right in the bedroom with us not missing a minute because that's just the kind of Dad he is.

146.  Realizing that laughter is making a more frequent appearance in my days!