…drives the band in the school bus to and from state basketball tournament games safely…
…sees me and talks to me while checking my groceries…
…gives my sons rides home from church activities…
…stays up a little later to make a lesson plan a little more engaging…
…donates money so our daughter can have scholarships and art grants…
…feeds our missionary son and asks for the recipe of his favorite dessert, even though it is in a different language and has different standard measurements…
…takes time to visit the school to speak encouragement and tell fun stories to my middle schooler…
…reads my self centered words…
…takes time to write to me…
…remembers important days and acknowledges them…
…shares talents…
…RSVP’s to a party invitation even when I don’t ask for it…
…shares a real life experience with me, not a contrived version she thinks would be more palatable…
…inspires me to seek deeper meanings in my study of scripture…
…inspires me to be myself…
…notices when we are missing…
…sees that we are trying…
…asks good questions and listens to the answers…
…doesn’t try to define us as just one thing…
…delivers mail in the snow…
…takes away our trash every week…
…selected our piano for their showroom so we could find it in Tucson…
…planted the trees in the yard…
…selected our white kitchen cabinets…
…wrote the book I finished today…
…shared the Book of Mormon with my family/ancestors…
I feel gratitude for you and many, many more.