Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I hope you have a fantastic day that is filled with lots of thankfulness.

I love being thankful, so two days ago I started a list of some of the things I’m thankful for. I didn’t finish the list the other morning, so I wrote down a few more things just now. This is obviously not a conclusive list, but it does remind me of how much I have to be filled with gratitude for.

I am thankful for…

1. Life
2. Freedom
3. Abilities
4. Being able to read
5. Books
6. Writing
7. Words in general
8. The meaning words have
9. Awe behind the fact that words make sense
10. Handwritten letters
11. Journals
12. Blogging
13. Being able to move over to WordPress
14. What I’ve been learning from moving to WordPress
15. All the people who have helped me with my move to WordPress
16. Those who have followed my WordPress blog
17. All the friendships I’ve made through blogging during the last 4 and a half years
18. Where I get to blog from – aka my desk and writing area
19. The knowledge of how I’m supposed to sit when I’m writing for health
20. My wrist brace
21. That my wrist is getting better
22. Chiropractors
23. That my thyroid is doing better
24. How much my health has improved this year
25. Being able to run the half marathon
26. The half marathon being for such a good cause
27. The ways my health improved when I was working on training for the half marathon
28. The dream of running a full marathon some time in the future
29. My family who supports me with my training
30. Being able to eat healthy food
31. Yummy foods that are healthy
32. Apples and almond butter
33. Spaghetti squash Spaghetti
34. Dill pickles
35. A best friend who makes delicious dill pickles
36. Visiting friends
37. Having friends come and visit here
38. Being able to stay in the kitchen and work when there’s lots of cooking
39. Aprons
40. Music to listen to while working
41. Earbuds
42. Early morning kitchen duty
43. Coffee with special creamer
44. Juice with ice
45. Chewing on ice while writing
46. Cosy blankets
47. Camping out
48. Campfires
49. Candles
50. Starting fires with flint and steel.
51. The coldness of winter
52. The coziness of warm sleeping bags in winter
53. Dogs
54. Cats
55. Hearing coyotes howling
56. Living out in the country
57. Living on a gravel road
58. Hopping from hay bale to hay bale
59. Frost covered roofs
60. The beauty of this time of year
61. Thanksgiving!
62. Family time
63. Late nights staying up playing games with Dad and Logan
64. Game nights with the family
65. White hot chocolate
66. White Chocolate box
67. Sharing
68. White chocolate covered pecans
69. White chocolate covered coffee beans
70. Stuffed animals
71. Sequoia
72. My blanket
73. Making records
74. Breaking records and making new recorded
75. My dry erase board
76. All the colorful dry erase markers
77. My cute, big eyed stuffed animals that keep me company when I write
78. My sheep skin
79. My shelf of special things
80. Memories
81. The ability to remember things from when I was a itty bitty child
82. That Sarah put the half marathon metal over my head
83. My “ink well” from Bruce and Bonnie
84. The way the sun lights up the trees when I blog in the mornings
85. Not being able to see other houses
86. Cutting grass
87. Walking through snow
88. Being able to smell
89. The scents of baking
90. Knowing how to bake
91. The ability to bake well
92. Getting to bake as part of my job
93. Clean towels
94. Clean dishes
95. Hot water to wash dishes in
96. More than one oven to work with
97. Getting to cook
98. Liking to cook so extremely much
99. Cooking by taste
100. When people like the food I make
101. Serving people through my cooking skills
102. Having everything all in order
103. Salt
104. Peper
105. Sugar
106. Flour
107. Breadsticks
108. When yeast rises
109. Garlic
110. Garlic presses
111. Minced garlic
112. Onions
113. That I can eat onions
114. Canned foods
115. Freezers
116. Cookies
117. Scones
118. White chocolate covered pretzels
119. Bananas
120. That fruit tastes like flowers look
121. The beauty all around me
122. That I can see flowers
123. That I can touch flowers
124. That I can take moments to just enjoy the world around me
125. The gift of sight
126. The gift of touch
127. The gift of taste
128. The gift of friendship
129. Helena
130. Helena’s projects
131. The good example Helena is
132. How friendly and helpful Helena is
133. How blessed I am to have her in my life.
134. All the good books Helena has read and grown from
135. Helena’s influence to those around her
136. Helena’s car
137. How many times she’s taken me places
138. Helena’s dreams that also affect me
139. Helena’s thankfulness for what I do for her
140. Helena’s cleaning abilities
141. My curtains
142. My rabbit
143. My rat
144. My dog
145. That I had a cat that I liked a lot
146. All the years I got to spend time with the goats
147. That I don’t have goats to spend time with any more
148. That I don’t milk the goats any more
149. Calendars
150. Keeping track of stuff
151. Goodreads
152. My friends on Goodreads
153. That I’ve been reviewing books each time I read one
154. That I’ve read 90 books this year
155. That I’ve felt well enough not to read more
156. Receiving snail mail
157. Good shoes
158. Flats with sparkly socks
159. Moses
160. Playing Uno with Moses
161. When Moses makes me breakfast
162. When Moses and I play our games together
163. When Moses and I work together
164. Moses’s good attitude
165. Moses’s friendship
166. Moses’s insight
167. Moses’s sense of humor
168. Moses’s high energy
169. Moses’s preaching
170. Moses’s love for books
171. Watching Andy Griffith with Moses
172. Moses’s abilities to do so much work
173. Moses’s problem solving skills
174. Moses’s ability to express himself well
175. Moses’s patience with so many sisters
176. Rocks
177. The rocks other people have given me from all over
178. My “Remember rock”
179. The story behind the “Remember rock”
180. The Dream Giver 
181. Daddy
182. For how Daddy inspires our dreams
183. For how daddy believes in us
184. Daddy’s good attitude
185. Daddy’s generosity
186. Daddy’s card playing abilities
187. Daddy’s work ethic
188. Daddy’s love for reading
189. Daddy’s enthusiasm
190. Daddy’s helpfulness
191. Daddy’s cooking
192. Daddy’s joy in blessing others
193. Daddy’s quirkiness
194. Daddy’s office and the music he plays
195. Daddy’s graciousness in wearing headphones when I have music on
196. Daddy letting us have animals
197. Daddy’s easy-going attitude
198. Different textures
199. Swinging
200. Feeling the wind rush when I swing
201. Warm socks
202. New sparkly socks
203. Hosanna
204. Hosanna getting sparkly socks
205. How much fun Hosanna and I have together
206. Hosanna’s goofiness
207. Hosanna’s help during retreats
208. Hosanna living closer
209. Hosanna’s chatting
210. Hosanna being weird with me
211. Hosanna’s dreams
212. Hosanna’s personality
213. Hosanna’s craziness
214. Hosanna’s willingness to let me drag her out of her comfort zone
215. Hosanna’s willingness to try new things
216. Hosanna’s friendship
217. Hosanna’s like of all my stories
218. Hosanna reading all my first drafts
219. Hosanna urging me on with writing
220. Hosanna getting unhappy when the wrong thing happens in my books
221. Hosanna’s #bringherback book campaign
222. Hosanna supporting my blogging
223. Hosanna sharing my stuff on Google Plus
224. Google Plus
225. Blogger and all the good years I had on there
226. Facebook
227. Twitter
228. Pinterest
229. My social media work
230. Being able to make a difference from my office
231. Connecting with people all over the world
232. Drinking coffee as I work
233. My coffee maker
234. My coffee set up
235. The “suitcases” I have to keep papers in
236. All the letters people have sent me that I have
237. All the copies of letters I’ve sent that I have
238. Old journals
239. Colorful pens
240. Making art
241. My art table
242. All the art supplies I have
243. Sparkly things
244. Glitter
245. The wall of pictures
246. The memories each picture holds
247. All the special trips I’ve been able to go on
248. Visiting Europe
249. Traveling through countries via a road trip
250. The dream of taking a road trip through all the states
251. How so many of my dreams have come true
252. Getting to visit over half of the states
253. Staying in a tipi
254. Climbing trees as a child
255. That my nieces and nephews now climb trees
256. Heidi
257. That Heidi and I can have fun hanging out together
258. Camping out with Heidi
259. Heidi’s enthusiasm for life
260. Heidi’s happiness when telling stories
261. Heidi’s knowledge of health-related stuff
262. Heidi’s cute and healthy snacks
263. Neighbors
264. Growing up with a neighbor who was like another brother
265. Reconnecting with old friends
266. Making new friends
267. Rice socks
268. The warmth of holding a rice sock when it’s cold outside
269. Cold fingers that aren’t too cold
270. Wonder
271. Love Does 
272. Every Body Matters 
273. Life Creative 
274. A Life God Rewards 
275. 20 Things We’d Tell our Twentysomething Selves 
276. Amazing authors
277. Books that inspire
278. Books that have helped me grow
279. Connecting with authors in real life
280. Begin able to help the authors by writing book reviews
281. Getting free books in exchange for book reviews
282. My beautiful bookshelf of book review books
283. Having to write book reviews when we were growing up
284. Being taught to love reading
285. The lessons that were instilled in us from an early age
286. Having to get up early
287. Cute boxes
288. Childhood fun
289. Growing up with out a lot of technology
290. Playing outside all the time
291. Playing “going out West” as a kid
292. All our covered wagons
293. Our shanty
294. Reading Laura Ingalls as a kid
295. Betsie’s many hours spent reading
296. Betsie
297. All the time Betsie told me stories
298. Being inspired to write cause of Betsie
299. Betsie being so much fun
300. Betsie surprising us
301. Betsie loving us
302. Betsie being such a good cook
303. Betsie’s creativity
304. Betsie having her own family now
305. Betsie introducing me to the joys of being an aunt
306. Betsie letting me stay and help her when I was a kid
307. Betsie inspiring her own kids to read now
308. Betsie having lots of books around for her kids
309. Betsie’s joy of animals
310. Betsie’s good examples
311. Betsie’s visits
312. Betsei’s dreams come true
313. The Bible
314. Bible verses I have around my room
315. Getting to read the Bible any time I want
316. Freedom to go to church
317. Our church family
318. The joys of being a part of the Body of Christ
319. Getting to help out with Sunday School
320. All the beautiful children in my class
321. Learning to love
322. Giving them hugs
323. Knowing I can make a difference in their lives
324. Knowing I can pray for them
325. Learning how to have patience
326. Learning how to be fair
327. Taking part in the games with them
328. Showing them that loving God isn’t stifling
329. All the youth in our church
330. That the youth really seem to want to serve God
331. The difference that the youth have been making around them
332. Boldness to stand up for Christ
333. Johanna
334. Johanna’s dedication to being a light
335. Johanna’s patience
336. Johanna’s ability to make things fun
337. Johanna’s sense of humor
338. Johanna being willing to put her foot down
339. The grace Johanna has
340. Johanna’s desire to help others grow
341. Johanna’s ability to be practical
342. Johanna’s wisdom
343. Johanna’s creativity
344. Johanna’s leadership abilities
345. Johanna’s outgoing personality
346. Johanna’s jokes
347. Fellowship
348. Laughter
349. Jokes
350. Games
351. Paige
352. That I can call Paige Paragraph
353. Sophie
354. Natalie
355. Misha
356. Nate
357. Cooking classes
358. People who want to learn and grow
359. Inside jokes
360. Caving
361. Getting to go caving three years in a row
362. The joy of maybe getting to go caving in the future
363. That I still have my adopted parents to go caving with
364. That my adopted papa is doing well health wise
365. That I could stay with my adopted parents when he had his heart attack
366. That God provided all the things to work out right so I could stay with them longer than planned
367. All the editing I got done during that time
368. The people who helped me with WLHYL
369. WLHYL
370. Being on the 18th draft of WLHYL
371. All the changes that have happened to the book
372. How much better WLHYL is now
373. Adding Emily
374. Taking out the second book
375. Getting to work on WLHYL in Mexico
376. Memories of eating treats in Mexico and drinking coffee while editing
377. People who encourage me with my writing
378. A computer to work on
379. All my beta readers
380. Misi
381. Hannah
382. Hannah
383. Olivia
384. Kate
385. Aaron
386. Kayla
387. Jason
388. Kaitlyn
389. Dad
390. Ashley
391. Bethany
392. Keturah
393. Mary
394. Jade
395. Emma
396. Grace
397. Hosanna
398. Mary
399. Lydia
400. Amanda
401. Those who read the feedback more than once
402. Those who I became friends with in addition to beta reading
403. Kate’s help with WordPress
404. Kate’s fun and encouraging email exchanges
405. Kate’s joy of life
406. Kate’s enthusiasm for helping others with writing
407. Kate’s inspiration for my website
408. Kaitlyn’s amazing friendship
409. How Kailtyn and I have connected
410. All the fun Kailtyn and I Have had together
411. Kaitlyn’s sense of humor
412. All the times Kailtyn has made me laugh
413. How incredibly encouraging Kaitlyn is
414. Kaitlyn’s outlook on life
415. Kaitlyn’s ability to cheer me up
416. Kaitlyn’s positivity and thankfulness
417. Kassidy
418. That I have hardwood flooring in my office instead of carpet
419. Vlogging
420. Tripods
421. Learning to talk in front of a camera
422. I don’t feel weird hearing myself on camera
423. Rejoicing
424. Christmas music
425. Music in general
426. That I can have a musician for a character
427. All I learned about music this year
428. Podcasts
429. Studying books
430. Asking musician’s questions
431. Aubrey
432. Aubrey’s talent
433. Aubrey’s accountability with me and goals
434. Aubrey being a friend for such a long time
435. Aubrey’s passion
436. Aubrey’s and my creative conversations
437. Melody
438. How beautiful her name is
439. That she’s so helpful
440. Her knowledge in the kitchen
441. Her willingness to try new things
442. The fun times we’ve had together
443. Her ability to make things funny
444. Sunshine
445. Watching how it lights up the world
446. The seasons
447. How trees morph throughout the year
448. Living in a state with all four seasons
449. SNOW
450. Dancing in the rain
451. Watching the sunset
452. Watching the sunrise
453. Listening to the creek giggle
454. Creek walking
455. Funny dreams
456. Flying
457. Being in airports
458. Liking to travel so much
459. Papers and notes
460. Making new friends out of strangers while traveling
461. Having a kindle so I don’t have to lug tons of books everywhere
462. Where we’ve stayed in Mexico
463. The hammocks
464. Running on the sand
465. The rhythm of the waves
466. Warm water swimming
467. Colored pencils
468. People who are good artists
469. The ability to make pictures with words
470. Watching a book form
471. The love I have for writing
472. Making a difference through the words I write
473. Being happy with being a writer
474. Finding contentment
475. Increasing my vocabulary
476. The journey I’ve gone through as an author
477. All the years I had on Blogger
478. Finally having the nerve, time, and money to move to WordPress
479. How much fun I’ve had with having a blog
480. Friends who read my blog
481. Annie
482. Abbie
483. Zion
484. Zeke
485. Zebb
486. All the amazing times I’ve had with them
487. The dream come true that they are
488. Taco Tuesday memories
489. How yummy cilantro is
490. People who appreciate yummy food
491. Thankful people
492. Kids who have dreams
493. People who work hard at their dreams
494. God planting dreams in our hearts
495. When those dreams come true
496. Celebrating dreams
497. Celebrating small things
498. Celebrating my birthday twice a day
499. How much fun it is to be quirky
500. People who delight in quirkiness
501. People who are excited to be excited
502. Mariah
503. Her servant’s heart
504. Her ability to make people feel welcomed
505. Her hard work
506. The good job she does on school
507. How she likes to have deep talks
508. How our personalities let us learn a lot from each other
509. How good she is with kids
510. Stickers
511. Smiley faces
512. Balloons
513. Blue jays
514. The pets I’ve had through the years
515. Snails
516. Turtles
517. birds
518. Rabbits
519. How accommodating my parents are
520. The name I have for a new rabbit
521. That my name works forward and backward
522. My middle name
523. The story behind my name
524. All I’ve learned through my non-writing job
525. Sarah’s friendship
526. Her poems
527. Her love for her family
528. Her happiness
529. How excited she gets
530. Her artistic abilities
531. Her amazing gifts
532. The camping trip she gave me for my birthday
533. How good of a mom she is
534. How she enjoys to share with others
535. How welcome I feel at her house
536. Her hospitality
537. Being able to share deep things with her
538. Random, good talks
539. Her encouragement
540. How we connect
541. The friendship we’ve cultivated so well
542. All the memories we have together
543. That she lives so close
544. When we work on surprises together
545. Coffee mugs
546. Sweatshirts
547. Warmth
548. Driving with windows down
549. Heated seats
550. Sleeping well
551. Small books
552. Silver dollars
553. Old CDs
554. Memories music can inspire
555. Memories smells can inspire
556. Memories tastes can inspire
557. Electricity
558. Stationary
559. David
560. David’s helpful attitude
561. How much David knows
562. David’s talent with organizing
563. David’s kindness
564. David’s happiness with playing games
565. David’s love for people
566. David’s researching
567. David’s humor
568. David’s leadership
569. David’s craziness
570. David’s growth
571. His willingness to drop everything
572. His teaching skills
573. Susan H.
574. Su
575. Deb
576. Justice
577. Carol
578. Joie
579. Macy
580. JC
581. Shayla
582. Grady
583. David
584. Hannah
585. Abbey
586. Olivia
587. Becky
588. Dave
589. Miss Laurie
590. N
591. Jamie (aka Jackson)
592. Josh
593. Susie
594. Eddie
595. Dakota
596. Tyler
597. Ian
598. Ayla
599. Steven
600. Andrea
601. Pastor
602. Zane
603. Zack
604. Alexa
605. Zach L.
606. Isaiah
607. Isaac
608. Inika
609. Ilija
610. Jessie
611. Susie L.
612. Olivia L.
613. Matt
614. Lori
615. Zane
616. Denise
617. Chet
618. Becca
619. Nick
620. Angie
621. Abby E.
622. Her ability to know what I need and do it
623. Her helpfulness
624. Her kindess
625. Her being a “safe” human
626. Kayla and my friendship
627. Stephanie
628. All she’s done for young writers
629. GTW
630. How much GTWs has helped me
631. All I’ve learned through GTWs
632. The friendships I’ve made through GTWs
633. Bekah O.
634. How she really encouraged me a while ago when I needed it a lot
635. The friendship we’ve developed since then
636. All the email we’ve done
637. What I’ve learned from her
638. That writers can connect
639. Grandma
640. That we can email back and forth
641. All the fun we’ve had playing games together
642. Her outlook on life.
643. How she supports me with my writing
644. That she reads my books
645. Grandpa
646. All the memories of him making us breakfast
647. That he loves us
648. That he is happy to talk to us for long times
649. His gift of stories
650. How he takes time for everyone
651. Eleonore
652. Her love for all of us
653. Her hospitality
654. How she loves to serve
655. The stories she tells
656. The food she makes us
657. All the treats she gives us
658. All the author’s who’s books I’ve been able to review this year
659. That our world has a system for reviewing books
660. That I can do 5 star and 10 star ratings
661. That I don’t have to follow all of the systems
662. That we have freedom of speech
663. Love
664. Joy
665. Peace
666. Patience
667. Kindness
668. Goodness
669. Faithfulness
670. Self-Control
671. That I like to make things into challenges
672. Challenges that help us progress in life
673. God’s patience
674. God’s Love
675. God’s Goodness
676. God’s faithfulness
677. God’s peace
678. God’s grace
679. God’s Word in our lives
680. Our ability to pray
681. A God who loves us personally
682. God’s creation
683. God being creative
684. God naming each of the stars
685. God creating me to be creative, too
686. God’s love in my heart to others
687. Logan
688. The good talks we have
689. When we connect
690. Praying for each other
691. Knowing that he cares
692. His helpfulness towards others
693. How he drops stuff when someone needs him to
694. His great out going personality
695. His huge sense of humor
696. All his puns
697. Playing cards with him
698.   His green thumb
699. His photography
700. His enthusiasm for life
701. Makayla
702. Lissi
703. Chloe
704. People who are good examples
705. Marissa
706. Daniel and Christy
707. Miss Jackie
708. Rebecca
709. Bruce and Bonnie
710. Dorcas
711. Angela
712. Clara
713. Kenzie
714. Titus
715. Emma
716. Lucas
717. Classics
718. Books that bring God glory
719. Tim
720. Meagan
721. Cool painted walls
722. Globes
723. Handmade stuff
724. Gluten free treats
725. Paleo
726. How much better I feel when I pay attention to what I put in my body
727. The gift of having health
728. Energy to work
729. Energy to live life
730. Reading at night
731. Getting to bed on time
732. Setting goals
733. Keeping goals
734. Tracking goals
735. Sharing my happiness of goals with others
736. Helping people see how much goals can change their lives
737. Knowing that goals have made a difference in my life
738. Living in a country where I”m free to set goals and work on them
739. Having a job where I can work on goals and be able to get stuff done at my own pace
740. Joy to the World
741. Hark the Herald Angels Sing
742. People who sing well
743. Music that makes me want to move mountains
744. Audio Adrenaline
745. (Kings and Queens)
746. BarlowGirl’s Home for Christmas 
747. Big Tent Revival
748. John Waller
749. Jimmy Needham
750. Jason Gray
751. Matt Maher
752. Matthew West
753. Michael Card
754. All the times I listened to his music growing up
755. Getting to meet him
756. Getting to talk to him for a while
757. Telling him how I used to listen to his music while writing
758. Reading his book
759. Watching him play his music
760. Him encouraging me
761. John Maxwell
762. All John Maxwell has done to further God’s Kingdom
763. His desire to please God
764. How he turns away from his own stuff to do God’s stuff
765. How much he’s helped our family grow
766. How he has traveled all over the world sharing about leadership
767. How many people then want to hear about the reason behind who John is
768. God’s Word and all we can learn from it
769. Memorizing God’s Word
770. Growing each day
771. Forgiveness
772. The ability to repent and move forward again
773. People who also display forgiveness
774. Michael W. Smith
775. Newsboys
776. Mandisa
777. The Piano Guys
778. Sara Groves
779. Third Day
780. TobyMac
781. Soundtracks
782. Gaither Vocal Band
783. Gaither Homecomings
784. Chris Rice
785. Celtic Woman
786. Patch the Pirate
787. Jonathan Park
788. Narina Soundtrack
789. Starkindler CD
790. The imagination I have
791. How music takes me soaring
792. Buddy Davis music
793. That Buddy and Kay Davis are my adopted parents
794. All the love and blessings I get from having two families
795. Getting to go on grand adventures with my adopted parents
796. How kind and generous they are to me
797. That they support me so much with my writing
798. How they’re willing to go out of their way to help me
799. That they love me
800. All the goofy conversations we have
801. Getting to make memories with them
802. Dreams come true
803. Listening to the music soon after he writes it
804. Getting to hear all the songs early on
805. Talking to my adopted papa about creativity and being a writer
806. All the books we’ve gotten to co-author together
807. Creative sessions
808. Celebrating milestones
809. Singing
810. Listening to him play his instruments
811. all the behind the scenes stuff I’ve gotten to see
812. Watching them make DVDs
813. Getting to be a small part of the process
814. Creation Museum
815. All the time I’ve gotten to spend there
816. All the friends I have who work there
817. Having FB to connect with those friends even though I don’t get to see them very often
818. The truth that they share
819. People who find out about God through the Museum
820. How so many people have their faith strengthen
821. That people finally know the reason for the hope they have within them
822. Helping people learn how to defend their faith
823. The Ark Encounter
824. How many people have heard about God through that
825. The blessings you’ve poured out on AiG
826. The blessings AiG has given back to you
827. Everyone who really wants to follow and obey God
828. All those who have read my books
829. The people who have contacted me to let me know they’ve enjoyed my book
830. Elizabeth
831. My audio book
832. The dreams I still have
833. The joy I get when I serve God
834. Christmas lights
835. Christmas
836. Celebrating Jesus’ birth
837. The excitement of so many people celebrating the same thing
838. Christmas cookies
839. The scents of Christmas
840. Christmas decor
841. People who do a good job decorating
842. Flowers
843. Thanksgiving
844. How a whole day is set aside to be thankful
845. The yummy food we get to eat
846. The spirit of thankfulness
847. Watching children celebrate holidays
848. Resurrection Sunday
849. The meaning behind the day
850. New Years Day
851. New Years Eve
852. Celebrating the dawning of a new year
853. Traditions
854. Being able to kinda start over
855. Making new goals
856. Celebrating the finishing up of old goals
857. Rushing to get everything done
858. Praying in the new year
859. Gathering together with people we love
860. Gordon
861. Susanna
862. Samuel
863. Isaiah
864. Faith
865. Mercy
866. Roy
867. The baby
868. That Jesus came down to earth for us
869. That Jesus was willing to die for our sins
870. Jesus healing people
871. All the accounts in the Bible of Jesus on earth
872. Jesus being able to relate to us
873. Jesus understanding what we go through
874. Jesus being willing to become human for us
875. Being able to be in Heaven with Him
876. Knowing that we are loved
877. That we belong in His family
878. 5Ks
879. Family walks
880. Family bike rides
881. Keeping track of stuff
882. When friends encourage each other
883. Cooking in the kitchen with my sisters
884. Having brothers who cook
885. Fun memories of Daddy cooking
886. A mom who had patience teaching us to cook
887. Mom
888. Mom’s love
889. Mom’s support
890. Mom listening to me
891. Good talks with Mom
892. Mom taking time to help us out
893. Mom’s wisdom
894. Mom knowing what we need to help us
895. Mom being so knowledgeable with health
896. How my office is a perfect haven
897. That my rat has lived so long
898. That I have parents who allow me to have little critters
899. Day dreams that have come true about writing
900. School books
901. Being homeschooled
902. Having friends who were homeschooled
903. Learning about writing as part of my schooling
904. Mrs. Vick
905. Mrs. Moon
906. BJU Homesat
907. Fun teachers
908. Libraries
909. Being able to borrow lots of books from libraries
910. Growing up in a home where people listened to each other
911. Family meals
912. All the great birthday traditions we have
913. Family meetings where we all get a say
914. Living in a big family
915. Cool quotes
916. Jokes that make me laugh
917. Puns
918. A family who uses a lot of puns
919. Sitting out on the porch at night time
920. Watching fire flies
921. Listening to whip-poor-wills
922. Borrowing clothes from siblings
923. Clouds that make pictures
924. Silly pictures
925. All the pictures I have that I can look back on for good memories
926. Enjoy making scrapbooks
927. My smash book
928. People who collect memories and then share them with others
929. Memories from Paris
930. Eating French Fries in France
931. Eating fish and chips in England
932. Eating Swiss cheese in Switzerland
933. Learning and growing with my grammar
934. People who have helped me improve with my writing this year
935. Adding Emily into WLHYL
936. Katie becoming nice in WLHYL
937. How much fun Darrick is to write about
938. How the characters in my book have really come together
939. When people talk about characters as if they’re real
940. Songs that remind me of my characters
941. When my family listens to me talking about WLHYL
942. The beautiful shade of red that I have in my room
943. Over the Divide 
944. Rivers of Judah 
945. Snow 
946. Out of Hiding 
947. Way of Escape 
948. The Slide 
949. SnowBlind 
950. Cathrine Farnes
951. Tawny Scrawny Lion 
952. Little Golden Books
953. Baby Brown Bear’s Big Bellyache 
954. Go, Dog, Go 
955. Timmy Tiger’s Terrible Toothache 
956. The Biggest Bear 
957. The Christian Mother Goose’s Big Book 
958. Getting to give Clara the books I read and loved as a kid
959. Whenever parents inspire their kids to read at an early age
960. The Bridge 
961. Two Collars 
962. The Crown and Jewel 
963. Llamas on the Loose 
964. Jerri Massi
965. Salt
966. My wooden dolls
967. Lightening
968. Chestnut
969. Elisabeth and Susanna riding horses with me
970. The amazing imagination my nieces and nephews have
971. Listening to their excited voices as they tell stories
972. Abbie calling to read us a book
973. Eyes lighting up when excited
974. Expressive faces
975. Cheerful noises
976. Babies learning to walk
977. Clara winking
978. The joy of discovering new things
979. Making each day an adventure
980. Hope when things are tough
981. Friends from different walks of life
982. Knowing people from all over the world
983. Having an expanded world view
984. All times I’ve slept in cool places like the barn
985. When I used to help the goats during kidding season
986. The wonderful childhood I had
987. Being around people who really love me and want to help me
988. Being able to really help and love others
989. Personality tests
990. The 5 Love Languages
991. My small spoons from all over the world
992. My old, old books from Europe
993. Old book stores
994. Pine trees
995. Blue birds
996. Listening to birds singing
997. The night sounds
998. Protection
999. Cornhusk dolls
1000. Growing up close to my cousins