Grateful

Since the first of November there have been thankful posts on facebook and on blogs. I am very grateful for many things in my life, I just haven't taken the time to post anything.
I love this time of year! We are reminded to be more loving, kind and to show more gratitude for what we are given. It leads us right up to the season we celebrate the birth of Christ. I am so thankful for this season and the feelings that it brings.
One thing I am so grateful for is my children, each one of them. I love them all and wouldn't trade a one of them. I am grateful for the spirit that our two special boys brought to our home. I really took it for granted until people started mentioning the spirit they felt around Owen. I then started noticing more often how good it did feel to be with him and what the feeling really was.
I was reminded of that special spirit and week or so ago from Abby. We had watched '17 Miracles', and Abby had some bad dreams. (Which Lenn happily got to say "I told you so"). Abby came and got in bed with me that night and I just cannot sleep when a child is in bed with me, so I told her to either go to her bed or the couch. She picked the couch and I went and got her settled.
The next night she told me not to worry she would not wake me up again if she had bad dreams, "I will just go to Owen's room again, it was so comforting there" she said.
Another reminder of just how blessed we are and have been the last almost four years.