*God's grace
*Jim's patience and help during sleepless nights
*my beautiful daughters
*handwritten cards
*music
*doctors and medicine, especially to help Madelyn's bulging infected ear.
*beds
*for my parents who took me to church when I was a kid
*for Jim's parents for raising a hardworking man
*that we didn't have to rush around on Veteran's Day trying to get to school
*for Bethany who keeps things lighthearted and knows what I mean when I say Laura likes elephants