Working on gratitude this week, , ,

We have much to be grateful for this week and I have had to remind myself of this a few times.  As some of you know we had a HUGE wind storm on Monday.  Our yard is littered with tree debris, though no "big" pieces. . .fortunately.  We lost our power just before I left for work at about 8am and it stayed off until I got home at around 6pm.  The schools were closed, the ferries shut down and people pretty well stayed home.  Dax and Elizabeth were away at a leadership training course hosted by St. John Ambulance in the lower mainland.
Shortly after getting home, we were all in the family room downstairs, when Kaili asked- "What's that smell?"  We weren't sure; maybe the furnace firing back up? Something outside?  Shortly thereafter there was a LOUD Pop from upstairs.  It seems that while the power was out, the butane camp stove was put on the range to heat water, the burner under it happened to be on, consequently it exploded sending shrapnel and hot glass around the kitchen.
After the initial shock wore off, I started really bemoaning the loss of our stoves, teakettle and the burn marks in the floor and holes in the cabinets where the shrapnel hit; all the while understanding that it could have been so much WORSE! 
If anyone would have been in the kitchen there would have been life threatening injuries for sure- if one of the pieces of camp stove would have flown a couple of feet to the right we would have had to replace a window too.  Even though we didn't have the 1000 dollars to put things back into functionality, we did have the credit available to do so AND NO ONE WAS HURT!
We now have a new stove in place and I am finally feeling grateful for real instead of faking grateful.