I would say "with feeling" but the way I've been feeling today? I don't think it's advisable.
(To summarize: I have almost kicked the cold that hasn't let go for eight days, we were all tired today and I was not a very nice mama, I spent far too much time in grocery stores, and I am aching all over from what's most likely some pregnancy related stuff. So, yay. Tomorrow's a new day, yadda yadda. (Oh, tomorrow is also the day my Baby Girl turns three; that ought to send a hormonal mama right over the edge.))
But, because I would like to be a bit more positive in the merry merry month of December, I am stealing an idea from Colleen because gratitude seems like a much better idea than just incessant whining (or whinging...I am grateful for that word, don't know why, I just like it).
I am grateful for the fact that I *could* spend too much time in the grocery store, namely that we have enough time and resources to go shopping, and that I don't have to find other options to feed my family (and I am, of course, grateful for my family).
I am grateful for hockey games because we all hang out in the living room together and I don't have to actively wonder what on earth the children are doing in another part of the house, and this allows me to spend a good stretch of time embroidering, which really did calm me down a lot, and got another part of a Christmas gift out of the way.
I am grateful for decaf eggnog lattes. Just because they're yummy.