Grateful

I am feeling grateful today. Grateful that I found a job that I really love! I quit the after school assignment last week, and started at another school this week, and I love it a lot. The ladies I get to work with are really great and fun to be around, and I feel like I am really helping the kids. The kids are just so fun to be around and they really respond in the small groups we work with them in. One little girl told me my "marriage ring was blingalicious!" I got to work with a Kindergartner yesterday who was so stinkin' cute I almost didn't mind when he sneezed right in my face! (I feel like I am coming down with something today, but trying to tell myself it is just psychological.) I finally feel like I found the right fit with the assignments I have now, and I really like that I only work Tuesday and Thursday, even though they are long days. Everything is falling into place so nicely for me right now, at least job wise. I am really, really grateful to have found employment in times like these, and on top of it all, to have found a job I feel passionate about and I really enjoy.
I am also feeling grateful for my kids who are both safe and healthy. Watching or reading the news this week makes me want to give them both huge hugs (which Anna welcomes and Jon pushes away bashfully).
I am also feeling grateful for my husband who is such an awesome help to me in everything I do. He is so supportive of anything I do that it makes me feel like I could do anything. He is always behind me and a constant help. Like today, he is helping me make this cake for Jonathan's birthday party tomorrow. He is doing all the hard work so I have energy later for all the decorating. I am attempting a two layer square cake (each layer is 10 by 2 inches) with 3 small round cakes on top, serving as pedestals for some of the Star Wars figures I am using on the cake (thank you, Lara!) And he offers creative help also, like just now we decided to use an 8 inch round cake pan on top, instead of 2 square layers, because we weren't sure we had enough batter. This cake will have 4 sticks of butter and 6 eggs and 8 cups of powdered sugar in it... so I am thinking even if the cake looks like a disaster (expect pics either way!) it will taste quite acceptable! I am making the frosting a cool gray blue with some purplish blue and teal accents. I woke up this morning with no idea what I was going to do, but I went to the stores and got some Fruit by the Foot and other candies, and came up with some ideas. It could be a success, or a total disaster. But the important thing to Jonathan is that it stays with the Star Wars theme.