Thanksgiving- 41 Things I am Really Thankful For

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It’s Thanksgiving a time where we share the things we are thankful for with our family, friends and all over social media. I know we are all thankful for our family, kids, their health, the Army, CrossFit, Dove soap and all that crap. Good on you. Me too.  Those things rarely change.

DAD put together a list the things that really matter or the “other” more over looked, every day things that make me smile during the year. The list below is 41 Things I am Really Thankful For this Thanksgiving.

1. I am thankful for that precious time when I get to sleep later than the timer on the coffee machine
2. I am thankful for the 15 seconds of peace and quiet before the house erupts into a new day
3. I am thankful for the times that DAD wakes up and “parts of him are 18” again.
4. I am thankful for a hairless bath tub, two women in the house that shed like Wookies, this is a big deal
5. I am thankful for the odd moment when I can poop without an audience. Just me and my Squatty Potty. NO! they are not paying me to write about them, it’s just the best poop of your life.
6. I am thankful for a full roll of toilet paper
7. I am thankful for matching socks
8. I am thankful for when I am able to tuck my shirt in and it’s perfect: not too poofy on one side or the other, no sides hanging out.
9. I am thankful for the second notch on my belt
10. I am thankful for the days I don’t have to use my horn once while I am driving to work
11. I am thankful for the Athleta Catalog. 
12. I am thankful for the fact that all of my kids have outgrown Caillou! 
13. I am thankful for my “crazy” friends who can talk for 45 minutes at a time, making my commute into work fly, I have no idea what they are saying, but it’s better than talk radio
14. I am thankful for the “Unfollow Button”
15. I am thankful for over friendly waitress and flight attendants.  It makes a boy feel “special”
16. I am thankful for that one pair of jeans that always fit
17. I am thankful for side boob. I love it. It’s my favorite “boob.” Not front, big or oddly shaped, but “side” best of the boob class.
18. I am thankful for spell check
19. I am thankful for the random $5 bill I occasionally find in my pocket. It’s the suburban version of winning the lottery!
20. I am thankful for the DAM Bloggers
21. I am thankful for the days “WIFE” takes care of the dishes so I can “sit.”
22. I am thankful for lip stick. I know, it’s weird, but it’s my weird and I am thankful for it…Vavooom!
23. I am thankful for DVR and the ability to pause live TV to play Legos, help with home work, wash babies, wash dishes, wash the dog, wash the clothes and on and on
24. I am thankful for chocolate chip cookies
25. I am thankful for the magic power that the NFL has over me that makes me fall asleep, no matter what the score or how good the game is, it makes me nappy, nap.
26. I am thankful for my buddies who understand I may not make it through an entire game and don’t shave my eyebrows
27. I am thankful for outside and my kids ability to go there and stay there when I need it most
28. I am thankful for outside and my ability to go out there when I need it most
29. I am thankful for boots and tights!
30. I am thankful for Sons of Anarchy, watching it makes me feel like a bad ass
31. The times when WIFE says, “let daddy sleep”
32. I am thankful for my ability to hang a picture without a level- Looks level to me
33. I am thankful for the fact that “the boy” laughs harder than I do at farts
34. I am thankful for the fact that my kids think I am awesome when I dunk on a 8 foot rim!
35. I am thankful for that small moment in time when all the laundry is done, folded and put away
36. I am thankful for all celebrities who do dumb crap, which makes me feel better about my dumb crap
37. I am thankful for the feeling of slipping into bed with clean sheets
38. I am thankful for the end of the day when WIFE gets into bed, stretches and shakes out her hair. Makes me wish for a slow motion button in life
39. I am thankful for the nights where she doesn’t hear me snoring, or at least ignores it
40. I am thankful for the ability to be able to lay next to her most every night (except when I snore too loud and she goes into the kids room, then I get the bed to myself, so it’s not all that bad)
41. I am thankful for all of you and your support.

Happy Thanksgiving

DAD