Count Your Blessings...name them one by one

My little beautiful Eliza Delee is a month old and I can't believe it. It's hard for me to sit down and blog though. Plus-have you ever noticed how after the enormous of excitement of having the baby and sending the pictures and making the announcements...your life slows down and you don't do much for a while? That's me anyway.

Things have been hard this month. Most know, but those who don't-the house we rented when we moved here went into foreclosure while we were still living in it so we had to move, with a two week old baby. That was very hard and that means a new ward, and starting over, when I had just barely started to make friends. I'm still worried about my house selling. Or maybe worried doesn't cover it adequately. So...I'm a little lonely and a little scared. BUT, I have a lot, lot, lot to be grateful for. Every time I turn around there is someone or something making my life easier, and making my burdens lighter. So I've compiled a list of things that I'm grateful for. This isn't everything, and it's not even the big stuff. It's the little stuff that has really counted for me lately. It's a random list but it's sincere.

1. My mini-van: I am indeed grateful for my car. Without that car Tom couldn't have easily been Scoutmaster or done his shed. If we didn't have that mini-van we couldn't fit all of our children in one car. I love that car and I love what it represents.
2. General Conference: I'm sure others feel this way but each and every one of those talks were specifically for me. I gathered such strength and comfort from them and I can not wait for them to be printed in the Ensign so I can read them again.
3. My "Baby Songs" DVD: Tommy isn't a big TV watcher but he loves this DVD and he wakes up at 6:30 every morning. I pop this thing in and sleep for another hour. It's saving my life.
4. A one-story house: I always thought I loved two-story houses, because that's all I've lived in. Turns out that having a one-story is totally awesome. In a two-story everything is always in the wrong place, but now-everything is close. No more going up and down stairs. I suppose it helps that it's a rather large one-story. Only a couple hundred square feet smaller than my house in VA.
5. Extended Family: My husband's uncle and cousin spent all of Thursday night the week we moved helping us. I don't know what we would have done without them. The next day Tom's dad finished moving us. For me, it was nothing short of miraculous all that they got done and I'm not being cliche. I don't know what we would have done without them.
6. My breast pump: It's my breast friend-oh yeah-I just said that. I have an unhealthy love for it. It's saved me from soreness and misery and using it early has made for the best experience of any of my kids yet-plus Eliza hasn't had weight gain problems like the other two-HOORAY!
7. Tom!: I said it wasn't going to be the obvious ones, but seriously-I can't leave him out. Having him coming home at the end of the day is what gets me through some of the harder moments. He picks up all my slack and then some. I love the guy and I'm thankful he's who he is and how much he helps me.
8. Not having any friends: Okay, so this one is tongue-in-cheek but hear me out-I don't have any money but not having any friends means I don't go anywhere and therefore don't spend money. Ditto on gas money. I don't have any obligations to overwhelm me. I don't try to do more than I'm capable of. It's actually working out for the time being. Hopefully I don't have to be grateful for this forever.
9. Scriptures, prayer, church and so forth: I've learned a lot since moving here, and I'm learning to not have any control and how to lean on the Lord. This has been good for me.
10: This cute bunch: