We’ve made it to the end of another year, and this is my last gratitude list of 2023. I hope you had plenty to be grateful for this year.

This month, I am grateful for:

1. The first day of advent calendars

2. Being able to see some of the town parade floats drive by the house so we didn’t have to stand in the rain to see them

3. Putting up the Christmas tree, Lucy loves it

4. Lucy’s new Christmas sweater

5. Being able to shop for a kid from the Angel Tree

6. Trying a Palestinian bread recipe, Kaak al-Quds

7. Pretty gift wrap

8. Going to a Christmas tree farm

9. Christmas concerts with bagpipes

10. Christmas lights

11. Fancy hot chocolate night

12. Homestead Creamery Eggnog

13. A weekend trip to North Carolina with Christopher

14. My brother watching Lucy while we went to NC

15. Coffee shops with excellent coffee

16. FaceTime with the nieces

17. Donuts

18. SNOW

19. Heated blankets

20. A night away in West Virginia to celebrate Christmas with just the three of us (me, Chris, & Lucy)

21. Seeing the giant pencil in Wytheville, VA

22. Our blow molds in action

23. Cousins coming to visit for a night

24. Getting to celebrate another Christmas with Lucy

25. Christmas

26. Order pick up

27. Watching birds on the Bird Buddy app

28. Google Keep

29. Frosted sugar cookies

30. TV fireplaces

31. The end of 2023