Thankfulness

Today I am thankful for modern medicine.  With all of my breast issues, my mother surviving breast cancer, and a friend getting a mastectomy this morning, where would we be without modern medicine.  Technology and medicine changing almost every day, staying on top of all the illnesses and disease that plague our world. 


Thank you Lord that I didn't have breast cancer, thank you for saving my mom, and thank you that my friend has a treatable cancer.

Thankfulness

Today I am thankful for my wonderful hubby.  He is another year older and that means another year I got to spend with him.  Lord, thank you for this wonderful man.  He is a blessing to me and our girls.  No matter what we are dealing with, I am with him in sickness and in health (even though there has been a lot of sickness :). 

Thankfulness

Today I am thankful for all of the veterans who have served our country and who are currently serving.  Without you, who knows where our country would be.  We are blessed to be able to have freedom of speech and worship the God of our choice.

Mourning the Loss

It was almost 6 years ago that we "up sized" from our very first home.  Moving is such a hard thing, this move was going to be it for a while.  We were planning on staying in our new house for a long time, it was going to be our home the girls new.  Slowly as the years started to go by, we made friends with neighbors, second families were born with them.  All the kids in the neighborhood were growing up together, celebrating birthdays together, making memories together. 

And then the economy failed.  We tried hanging onto our home for over 2 years and it just became impossible.  Teacher salaries kept going down, cost of living, gas, groceries, and insurance kept going up.  ML has been so dedicated to support our family and I am so proud of him.  However, it became time that we make that hard decision to let our house go.  It was only the Lord that new that ML would not have a job by the time it finally all went through.  And we only trusted the Lord as to where our new home would be located.  It has been 4 days in the new house and we are slowly making it our home.  We are both mourning the loss of our old house, our old neighbors, and our old familiarity.  But we know the Lord has us where He wants us and have to trust that. 

In these past year or two, so many families have lost their home.  We are now one of them.  I only hope and pray that they have the Lord in their lives to see them through...to give them hope...to show them the positives of the change. 

So to our "old" neighbors...even though we don't live across from each other we will still consider you neighbors.  We will try hard to see you on a regular basis and keep up with your families.  You have made a great 5 1/2 years in our home, you have made a long, lasting impression on our hearts.  You will forever be friends.

Thankfulness

Today I am thankful for being able to move on this 3rd day of moving.  Thank you Lord for the help we have been receiving and for the help that is coming tomorrow.

Thankfulness

I am thankful for a day of successful moving yesterday.  I was able to take two loads to the new house, by myself.  I paced myself and took a lot of pain pills and I got through.  Thank you Lord for a great day.

Happy November!

Thanksgiving is here, or at least the month of it.  There is so much to be thankful for and so much to do this month too.  We are getting ready to move in a couple of days, but I will try and jot down a few things I am thankful for each day.  Please add to the list, I would love to see what you are thankful for.  So for today:

• I am thankful that ML has a new job opportunity.
• I am thankful that the Lord has orchestrated the move from one house to another so perfectly, and now I see that I never should have ever had one ounce of worry.
• I am thankful for all of our health.  Even though FM can be so troublesome and cause major havoc in my life, it could always be worse.