I am so grateful that I can pick up any instruction and do that project with no problem. As long as there is an instruction, I can do it.

After many conversations with students and friends, I discovered that there are a lot of people that can read but don't understand, no matter what.

For years, I thought this was just ridiculous and figured that people just didn't want to take the time and didn't have patience and didn't want to do the project bad enough. I was so wrong lol.

Conversation between Friend and I: what do you mean you don't understand...it says chain three, do chain three, it says put the hook in the third chain, how easy it that?..put the hook in the third chain and pull the yarn through...Friend: oh now I understand, you showed me.

It took me a long time to realize this phenomenon.

I'm grateful for so many things it would be hard to list them all. My relationship with God is first, my family, being able to be retired, my family that I grew up with, my childhood being so ideal, the people on this board, my home etc.

Learning styles. I do best when I see it done rather than read the instructions. My hubby HAS to do it himself to figure it out. So thing that come with printed instructions are not very good for either of us. Thank Goodness for Youtube!

BTW, I am also grateful for many things. One being that I am smart enough to buy lots of extra fabric for a project so when I read the instructions and mess it up the first three or four times before I "get it" that I have enough to actually do the project.

I TOTALLY messed up my Bali Wedding Star by following the printed instructions. IF I had seen what she was talking about I would have never screwed up 288 blocks!

I am thankful to God for caring for me and my family, For still have my parents, My grandchildren and the ability to to almost any craft I can find. Being able to teach others whatever I do.

I guess the things I am most greafeful for are the most fragile in my life. My health, such as it is, my eyesight, legally blind w/o glasses, but 20 20 with. My family, estranged from daughter, but she will come back to the fold. My home and pets. My country and the opportunity to serve it when I was younger and better lookin'!

I know exactly what you mean. I'm a retired teacher & I can't count the times I have had to help - especially males - do something because they cannot read instructions. I guess that is why some people can't cook, etc. I make good use of 800 no.'s when something needs fixed. I taught sewing for a while & the constant question I would ask is "what does the next step say". I wanted them to be able to do things on their own.

Some people read and do.
Some people see and do.
Some people hear and do.
Some people are great teachers.
Every one is different and thats what makes us all special, not better or worse than others.
What a boring world this would be if every one was just like every one else.

I am grateful for my DH. :D He is far from perfect but he is a kind man with a good sense of humor. He supports me in everything I do. He is willing to stop whatever he is doing and rub my back. He is a good father and grandfather.He doesn't complain when I don't want to cook or if I sew all day.
He can drive me nuts sometimes, but I would be lost without him!

I am grateful for my Lord and Savior and what He did when he died for me. I am grateful for my Husband and children and parents and brothers and even the in-laws. I am grateful to have stood by my husband, daughter and son as they serve(d) our country. I am grateful for all the beautiful creation I see around me and all the wonderful creatures that He has made. I am grateful for my home and the ability to make the mortgage payments and put food on the table and fabric in my sewing room. I am grateful for all my friends, especially the quilting ones and that I can quilt!

I am grateful for all of you!!! hugs, Lace

I'm grateful I can still cut my own toe nails.

(If one stops to think about it, that isn't nearly as superficial as it seems!)

Exactly!!! Well, not exactly, I didn't have an idyllic childhood, and I am not retired yet, but most of the rest is exactly the same!! And I can add my Darling Husband is one of my top of the list things I am grateful for!!! I didn't find him till I was 50, and I wish I had found him when I was 21. Well, maybe not...the Lord did a lot of work on us both before the day we met!! :thumbup: :D I also have to add my kids and grandkids.

Overall, my list is too long to list!!! :D

I"m grateful for the wonderful parents I had, the loving family I was raised with, My HUSBAND who never let me down when it really mattered, and for the four children I was blessed with and for my five grandchildren. I'm grateful for the fact that we always had our own home, food to eat, good health, and lots of love among ourselves. I'm thankful that God blessed me with all of this, I pray I deserved it.

I am thankful to God for being blessed over and over. HE is good. I have good health. I may be slow, but I'm not stupid. I've been able to retire early, with full benefits. HE gave me the opportunity and ability to do the things I enjoy. Life is Good, thank you Jesus.

I am Thankful frist and for most for my Lord Jesus for dieing for me and all the many others and rasing on the third day.For saving my soul and hubby's and our son,family,a home,food on the table,shoes on my feet,the many,many blessings and the list go on and on and alowing me to meet such a Sweet Family that i've found here.(:)

Two feet and a heartbeat! Seriously, the list is long...just grateful to get up each morning and see what happens next and that whilst Lupus cripples my body, it hasn't got my brain (that is really important to me).

I couldn't have said it better. I was looking for a way to say those things but you did it for me. Those are the same things I am greatful for. Thank you.

First... is being able to get out of bed every morning. Having arthritis in my jaw. Where your jaw connects to your skull...(in side next to your ear canals). That is called TMJ. Next is my wonderful husband.... he has the patience of a saint. With my aliments and complaining he has to be!

I could not have said it better !!!! Way to go.

I read instructions and look at the pictures. If I still can't figure it out, I ask my Oldest Daughter, she likes putting things together.

Everyone is good at different things and thank God we are.

First for the Atonement.
Second for my husband still by my side.

Earlier today I decided to keep a weekly gratitude journal. My entry for this week was a great doctor I saw today. She is a geriatric doctor and usually doesn't see patients under the age of 65. I'm 62. She was so helpful in answering questions about breast cancer...

I am grateful for my husband, my kids and my grandkids!!

I am grateful for my family. I am so blessed. Great kids who support me in anything I do.

I am grateful for surviving an abusive childhood and becoming the woman I am today in spite of it. I am grateful for my wonderful husband, who is my best friend, staunchest supporter, and the best thing that has ever happened to me. He's taught me how to be loved. I'm grateful for my mother in law, who for 30 years has been the mother I never had, and loves me like her own. I am blessed.

My daughter who without whom I would not have a roof over my head. My brother who I reconnected with a few years back. That my daughters have finally gotten their heads out of their butts and are talking to each other again. That I finally got my disability after 6 years of fighting. That since I did I have Medicare and found an awesome doctor that repaired my second aneurysm and fixed the whacked up job the other doctor did on my first. Emory Hospital. My foster puppies. My dog Andy. Having a computer.

Anyway I use to be able to read and follow instructions but they don't compute anymore. So I have to have pictures. I always thought anyone could sew it was so easy for me. Then I realized they can't. Their brains just don't work that way. Just like mine doesn't do math.