Today's Top Ten

Today I'm thankful for . . .

1. An organized toy room and kids that helped clean it (sort of)

2. Watermelon and cantelope from the Eastern Shore

3. Air conditioning

4. Blooming, Summer flowers

5. Philadelphia

6. My husband who likes to cook and is good at it; who enjoys reading bedtime stories, putting the kids to bed and falling asleep with them; and who devotes his free time to his family, not to TV or video games

7. Scriptures

8. Neighbors

9. A new car battery that was replaced for free because the old one went bad while still under warranty (and for friends who helped me figure out the problem when Bobby was away)

10. Delaware, Maryland, corn fields, tractors, the beach, the smell of fresh-cut grass, the smell of chicken houses and cow farms, home-made creamery ice cream, country roads, old school buses converted into trucks loaded with watermelon fresh-picked from the fields, stars, lightning, the Bay Bridge, rivers . . . The Delmarva Peninsula