Prompt: Appreciate. What's the one thing you have come to appreciate most in the past year? How do you express gratitude for it?

TIME!  Time is the thing I have come to appreciate the most...time to see people, time to do things, time to not do things (this is the time I seem to have the least of!), time to run, time to hang with the girls, time to talk with Larry, time to read the newspaper.  I get up an hour before I "have to" so as to have time to talk with Larry and get my mind together.  I love this extra hour, even though we tend to "waste" it reviewing basketball scores, trades, or sign-n-trades, loose-ends of conversations we don't really "need" to have.  I express gratitude for having time by getting up early, by finding the extra patience I need for the girls when they don't have as much time as they would like, by calling a friend to just check in, by doing these blog posts...