Blessed / Spoiled

It's a constant debate.

Am I blessed?

Or just spoiled?

I'm going with both.

1 part blessed.

2 parts spoiled.

Or is it

1 part spoiled

2 parts blessed.

Sigh.

There's a thing floating around Facebook

that asks:

"What did you thank God for this morning?"

Which I think is an excellent question.

A question to which the answer is

EVERYTHING.

I have so many things to be thankful for,

I pretty much just have a running

list going all day long.

Besides the obvious,

Sunday School answers,

#1 of which is FAMILY.

I can never say thank you enough 

for my loving family.

I'm currently sitting in my beautiful

new, chocolate buttery soft leather

power recliner

*thanks for awesome new furniture!

typing a blog post on my wonderful

new (thank you family!) laptop.

(Now if I could just figure out what I'm

doing that makes my curser jump to

random places at random times 

and I don't notice until I don't see anything

typing even though my fingers are flying...

Rozann????)

Listening to beautiful music

playing on my phone

and piping through

a nifty speaker system Mom & Dad

sent me for Christmas a bunch of years ago.

I still love it and use it daily!

*Thanks!!!

I just got home from the grocery store.

It's a wonderful day here in Florida.

*thanks for the weather AND thanks

for the opportunity to live in Florida!

So when I got in my new little car

*thanks for the car! and the lower payment!

I decided to turn off the A/C

*thanks for A/C!!!!!

and turn a little knob and open the sunroof.

*Thanks!!!!

And if you open the passenger-side window

a couple of inches, you get a lovely breeze

without your hair blowing into your mouth!

NIFTY!

*And thanks!

I opened my fancy new this year, french door fridge

*SO cool, thanks!

and pulled out some frozen chicken

to make for Rod's dinner before he has

to drive south to a meeting.

*thanks for THREE well stocked freezers!

I'm looking out the back doors

at a bunch of beautiful black and white chickens

(black chickens, white chickens and 

black and white striped chickens)

walking around on beautiful green grass.

Now THAT is a pretty picture!

*thanks for the chickens and the fact

that they are healthy! I haven't had to deal

with ANY of the weird chicken things I

hear other people talking about...

And watching a steady stream of cars

driving up and down the neighbors driveway

(it's Thursday - sale day)

to purchase fresh, organic food

including my eggs.

*Thanks for a steady market for my eggs!

Which pay for the feed for my horses,

thanks for HORSES!

and for my cows,

which explain the THREE well stocked freezers.

See what I mean?

I'm blessed beyond measure.

And stinkin' spoiled at the same time.

And I'm SO THANKFUL!