I talked about gratitude in my last post, so I thought I should dish some out.

Here’s some things I am grateful for at the moment…

• Spring seems to have sprung (or started to) here in Jianzha.  It’s gorgeous outside and warming up a little bit more each day.  Blue skies and nice mountain views (looks a little bit like this…)

• We purchased airline tickets for our return to the States this week.  We’ll be home on Memorial Day!  Just a little over two months away.  Warm up those grills, people!   I am  a heat-seeking missile when it comes to barbecues…
• Her…

• Her & her…

• We have a team again.  The other family (whose house we stayed in last fall) arrived in town today.  They are still a bit jet-lagged having traveled all the way from Canada, but they are here nonetheless and we are no longer alone.  We look forward to celebrating Easter with them this weekend.

• Baseball season is upon us!  Yes, I’m back on the Fantasy Baseball bandwagon again having joined up with my old compadres in the Xining "Laowai" League.  Since I took off last year, my team this year LOOKS truly HORRIBLE, but that’s OK.  It will be fun to crunch numbers and root for opposing teams only because I vested interest in certain players.
• Books, good books!  I’ve been reading some good books lately and I still have a stack of them to get through in 2008.

Oops, gotta run for now.  More gratitude tomorrow…