As Americans
celebrate Thanksgiving this week I thought I should show support as a close Canadian and
take a look at what I am most grateful for this year. Gratitude is never wasted.
Whenever I am feeling stressed or worried or down and under- gratitude brings
me back up again.
I am most
grateful for me and my family being safe and sound and healthy. There is
nothing I would ever be more grateful for.
I am grateful
for tenderness. It is something I have always had inside of me but haven’t always
been able to access and show as often as I do now. I am grateful that any walls
I had built up over the years have come down to a large degree. It feels so
good.
I am grateful
for each of my children in a million trillion ways that I could never do justice
to with words
I am grateful
for my husband of almost 18 yrs. and that we continue to grow and thrive and
love so well together.
I am so extremely
grateful for my Mom. I have been so so blessed.
I am grateful
for my extended family and my close friends. Recently a Mom from my daughter’s schoolgirl told me that she has
no close relationships outside of her immediate family “because she has no time
at all for that” (the girl has a set of twins but still!!). I left that conversation
feeling so so sad for her. She said she barely speaks to her Mother and Father
except for once a month…she has let go of all her girlfriends and couple friends
and does not attend any family get togethers anymore. I left that conversation
feeling so sad for her and grateful for my own relationships.
I am grateful
for so many other things in my life, but I realize as I write this that health
and relationships far surpass anything else I have and love in my life. There are
a million trillion other things to be grateful for but the most is always
involving the people I love and who love me back.
Safe and
Sound at Home.
Safe
Healthy
All is good.
