 Hey guys Today my job is to tell you about the Vitamix spring sale of Mother's Day sale But I don't want to do it and it said I'm gonna riff on things that I am grateful for things that I can show you Hopefully that I can show you I'm grateful for my work I Get to give the gift of health where I can hear our boys Fighting and screaming. I'm grateful for those very sweet little moments When they just And melt your heart. I'm grateful for my health. I'm grateful that I don't have a sore throat I didn't have a sore throat before but sometimes thinking about what it feels like to have a sore throat Grateful for my parents health. My dad had to have his gallbladder removed recently grateful for that modern medicine and His openness to get some vegetables in his diet. He's drinking green juice now probably never had a Leafy green in his body his entire life until now grateful that my mom makes him green juice I'm grateful that John Barnard taught me how to make green juice something like four or five years ago And we visited Vitamix headquarters a little fruit a little greens and a little seeds Well I'm grateful for all the the brainpower and the and the thoughts that combine to go into making this camera that is Capturing my voice and my my face and and I mean our entire livelihood is this camera and then my my laptop That's it some glass and metal. I Am excited about this cookbook the Vitamix 100th anniversary cookbook flip through it And there are so many recipes that I'm excited to make most of them are whole-food plant-based and it's crowdsour So it's everyone's top recipes, but I'm grateful for the relationship that that we have that Shalva and I have with the folks at Vitamix with from all the way the top Jody to all the way down to You know the customer service folks the guys everyone I'm grateful that so many people have taken a shot with our recipes and try them including well, especially our creamy wild rice soup Which is featured in this book I'm grateful for all of the kind words that we get with from comments here emails Tax messages phone calls. They are what keep us going and the support and the love that people can show us in 2021 without having a brick-and-mortar store I'm grateful for my That I get the benefit of the doubt most of the time Things are pretty crazy in Minneapolis right now I'm grateful for that vaccine Wow Wow I'm grateful for my wife and uh mother of nine children and partner in this in this little business Shalva's Is everything To me guys. I'm grateful for this moment The ability to realize that this moment is all that really matters