Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone

This year, I am most thankful for having my family intact. I had such a rough time in 2009, that I could have ruined 2010 for my entire family. However, despite my nuisances, my depression, and my disappointment with life, I was able to come out the other side with my family intact. My health? Not so much. Looking back over this year: I have been unemployed for 8 months, injured my knee, diagnosed with degenerative joint disease and multiple bone spurs, lost a car, almost lost my husband and my sanity, started back to school, changed my degree once again, moved from Brunson back to West Columbia, and took on three part time jobs. WHEW!!!! What a year it has been!
2011:
Will be just as busy. I start a new part time job in January, should graduate with a Bachelors Degree in English during the summer, will see one "child" graduate from high school, will go back to school to obtain a Masters, will hopefully be able to take a trip to Scotland and Ireland with hubby, and will make NO New Year's Resolutions this year!!! What is the point? I do not stick with it, so No New Years Resolutions. OH, AND 2011 is the year of mine and hubbys 20th year out of high school (Time for 20 year reunions) and 20th year of marriage.  

So, here at Thanksgiving, while I still feel a little lonely without my closest friends and family, I am most grateful for having my husbands family and my children home and healthy. While I may not have a home of my own, I am so grateful to the man and woman who allowed us to come and live with them; my mother and father in laws. They are forever coming to the rescue, and while I am frustrated about always having to lean on them, I am grateful they are there to lean on, if for no other reason but to help with the boys.
I am so grateful that my boys have and are growing up to be respectable individuals. They (as we all) have faults, and make mistakes; but gratefully they learn from them, pick themselves up, and perservere. It seems like I do not tell them enough how proud of them I am, how much I love them, and how much I hope and pray for their futures.

Today, I miss all those who have gone to God, and all of those who can not be with us for one reason or another, but am grateful for every moment I have spent with family and friends and for all the memories. 
"Thanks for the Memories, Thanks for the Memories..."