Let's be thankful!

This morning Lane woke up asking for a cookie. I told him no and gave him oatmeal. He didn't complain and ate all of his oatmeal and was happy about it bc he hadn't had it for a while. He ate his oatmeal on the step to his playroom bc he is not allowed food in there. Well his bowl was empty but still sitting there so I threw a cookie in there to see what he did. When he finally saw it you would think he won the lottery! It was so cute and funny. He jumped up and down, "A cookie, a cookie Momma a cookie!" Why can't we all be so thankful for the little things? I love the innocence in children. The simplest things make them so happy. It makes you want to do more to make them happy. When we grow up it becomes more difficult to make us so happy so ppl stop trying so hard. I want to be more like Lane. I want to be so happy over the small things. I think I actually am since having children. One reason is we can't afford a lot of things. A toddler and 2 infants gets pretty expensive. We are making it though. I know I am more excited when we get to go out now though. I am more appreciative I guess you could say.
I really appreciate all the ppl that have helped us along the way. So many ppl have given me clothes, mostly girl clothes bc that is what they had but thats fine bc it is less we have to buy. I have a group of friends on the internet that are awesome. We have been talking for years. Whenever one of us has a baby we all send some $ and a card to them. I don't know if they know it but the money they sent me actually bought Lane's Christmas presents. If that money hadn't come then he would have got nothing. We had spent all our money while I was in the hospital for preterm labor with the twins and then the twins were born and we had to spend more on things. I am so thankful for these things. God always makes things fall into place and I have learned and still am learning to be more thankful for even the small things.