Thankful!

I wanted to just drop a short blog . . . hee hee, short . . . uh, anyway just to say how thankful I am.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I thought, since I'm not with my extended family this year and we aren't verbally stating, around the table, what we're thankful for . . . I would share here.

First off . . . I have 2 of the most beautiful boys in the world . . . that might be slightly biased . . . I'm thankful to God that they are healthy and happy youngsters that seem well rounded (I am their mother . . . give it some time).

Another huge one is Justin, of course . . . if you weren't aware . . . I am madly in love with the man I share my life with. Annoying, huh? Don't get me wrong, we have our differences, but God is soooo good to us in our relationship. We just keep getting stronger . . . 6 years in March, still adolescents in the marriage department. But thankful I am!!!

Also, I am thankful for a strong and supportive . . . not to mention hilarious extended fam! My sistas are my best friends and my parents are just solid for me and my family! Bailed us more than once, eh? . . . not literally bailed us out of jail or anything . . . just have been a huge help. My bros are a crack-up . . . though I don't see them as often as I would like. But love, I do all of them! And would do just about anything for them . . .

I'm thankful for my few and far-between friends that have been deposited in my life. God knows. And, in the past few years, have realized how hard it is to have great friends. Why didn't this seem hard back in the days of my teen years and early twenties . . . more time on my hands . . . I don't know. Or maybe what I perceived as a great friendship was just a convenient relationship, we're both here, might as well hang-out. So I cherish, to my core, the friends that just care for me . . .

The next two are kind of weird. I'm going to say, I'm thankful for the favor God's given Justin in the fire dept and in school. He's excelling and I know it's by God's grace . . . and J's willingness. I'm super duper proud . . . you don't even know. He's so doing so well!!!!

Also, there is no regular income . . . so I'm thankful, beyond words, for God's provision in all of this!! Things just keep getting paid and we have been provided for . . . all is His!! We have not lacked, down to the smallest items. Thank you, God!!!!

Of course there's a billion tiny but significant things I'm thankful for . . . my family's health, my apt, my cars (bothing running great), my curtains and bedding (my fantastic mother-in-law made them for me. BEAUtiful!), all the material stuff that doesn't last anyway but I'm enjoying it for now, food on the table (more than enough . . . maybe I should go excersize), my dog (he's crazy and he's a bonafide 'grace grower'), running toilets . . . yeah, me likey that! I spent 4 months in Kenya, East Africa, and experienced no plumbing! It's been like 7 yrs since I've been there! Holy monkey! But it's vivid, believe me you. Disposable diapers, thankful for those and the fact I'm able to buy them! Ah, while we're on the subject, toilet paper is good too. Ok, that's getting goofy nutballs . . . so I'm going now.

That is my official 'Thanksgiving, around the table, thankfulness of the year speach'. I hope you enjoyed and think hard about what you're thankful for . . . it sure puts things into perspective sometimes.