Gratitude

While Tiny Boy finishes Sunday morning TV, some things I am grateful for (and enjoying!) these days:

1. risotto in the pressure cooker
2. new coffee pot with refillable k-cup thing
3. hiring a friend's daughter (recent college grad, now home again) to pick up LG at late events last week
4. the first-grade playdate, esp. Tiny Boy's friend taking him yesterday for two hours (usually we've been play-dating chez nous)
5. the relative lack of leaves to rake at the new house, given tree type and placement
6. having a second bathroom, and a study
7. not living adjacent to a student rental anymore
8. giving my students an extra day to write a paper, which means I didn't have a substantial body of material to grade this weekend
9. conferencing next weekend; I'll see some good friends, I will have a hotel night to myself, etc.
10. I have not said this lately:  but Tiny Boy sleeps, and the set up in the new house means that I sleep.  Like really well.  (I'd like to try to get off Lunesta when I can afford a day or two of no sleep, which probably means winter break.)