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31 Things I am Grateful for December 2023

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