Thanks giving, Week 52

It's a gray and now snowy day, so it seems like a good time to do my final thanks giving post.  I set out to do this for a year, and it's taken a little longer to post 52 of them, but it seems like as good a time as any to finish.  So here goes:

• I am thankful for a quiet house.  Wes is at work, hopefully submitting (by 4pm) the proposals he's been working on for weeks now.  Oliver is at daycare, hopefully still dry in his underwear.  He wore some to daycare yesterday and came home in the same pants and underwear (stayed dry even through his nap!).  He clearly knows the difference between underwear and pull-ups and wants to wear the underwear.  Even Lucy seems to be in a sleepy mood.
• I am thankful for another week of class-free days until my first class next Thursday.  I saw that professor (for my research group) out at lunch yesterday, so she knows that I'm still waiting for baby and might not make it if she continues to bide her time.  The professor is a mother of three, the youngest only 3 years old, so she understands my situation and is supportive.
• I am thankful for a freezer full of food.  Lots of food.  For a new recipe (chicken tortilla soup) and a still full bag of chocolate chip cookies left behind by my mother.
• I am thankful for my home, which is clean and all set up for baby.  A co-sleeper by the bed, a playpen in the living room, her nursery upstairs.  And while I'm really ready to have her in my arms, I'm also really thankful to have her in my belly, 39 weeks and 1 day pregnant by the midwife's due date.  How neat to be so pregnant and so close to meeting her.  
• I am thankful for the many friends and family who are also ready to meet this baby, many of whom have called (um, repeatedly), texted, emailed, and messaged me on Facebook just to see if she's arrived.  
• I am thankful for a thankful spirit.  Posting these each week(ish) has helped me to be intentional about appreciating all that I have in life.  It's easy to just get down sometimes, even when you have so much, so practicing this has made my year -- which had a lot of highs and also some downs -- a lot more enjoyable.  I wish those of you who have read my posts each week a year of things to be thankful for and the spirit to be thankful for them -- both big and small.

Updated: I just opened a copy of Real Simple that I picked up at the grocery store and saw this quote: "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling" (Margaret Lee Runbeck).  That pretty much says it all.