Thankful this Holiday...

It's Thanksgiving time and I will be doing the usual running from house to house seeing everyone and eating till I can't eat anymore. It's sort of the same routine year from year.  I also take time to enjoy certain traditions through out the holidays and to be mindful of the lessons I have learned, the new people I have met, and the better me I try to become. so here goes....

Each Thanksgiving I look forward to some of the same things, it's not the food or driving from house to house....IT's simple little things that make the Holiday special for me.  I LOVE and MUST watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade....no Thanksgiving is complete without me watching and seeing that wonderful parade of acts, plays, musicians, and ROCKETTES!!!!!!!  I get up and make sure I am settled and ready before it comes on.  I miss the days of having nothing to do so that I could dedicate that 3 hours to just the parade, but I now end up getting some cooking or something done while watching it.

I love seeing family and laughing, I'm the type person that I may not remember what I ate at one house or another, but I will remember a laugh, a story, and a comfy feeling. I've always said, if you make me laugh then you have my heart!!

I'm thankful for lots of things this year.  I've learn some hard lessons in the past year and I've had the pleasure of some fabulous people coming into my life or making a re-appearance.

I'm thankful for friends, I have the most amazing friends who never fail to understand me. I mean seriously, I get half a sentence out and they already know where I'm headed with it and what I'm feeling.  It's great, anything I need they are always willing to be there. I truly am blessed to have them.  I have made lots of new friends as well. With my move to Belmont, I am an hour away, if not more, from my friends so I have made some great new ones and I'm thankful for them.  I have surrounded myself with people who are there and support me.  They may tell me it's a bad idea, BUT they are there for me and if they have something to say, it's said to me not about me.  So to all of you I'm soooooo thankful to have you in my life...your words of encouragement and your supports are amazing!!!  I just hope I'm as good of a friend to all of you as you are to me.

I'm thankful for my trials and tribulations....GOd knows I've more of those than I bargained for.  I have been through a lot in the last year.  At this time last year, I was closing some chapters and opening a whole bunch of new ones. I have made a bad decision or two along the way and I've been down and out several times, BUT  with each closed chapter, a better one opened, with each bad decision, I learn to make better ones, and with each day I was down, I had two good days to replace it.  With each tough hard day, I became stronger and smarter.  For that, I'm thankful, I have scars to prove that all wounds heal and all frowns will turn around.

I'm thankful for David....we have been together a little over a year and I would have never imagined that this Thanksgiving I would be planning a wedding. I'm grateful for his friendship that he gave me before we became a couple and I'm grateful for him as the man in my life. David understands ad gets me. He goes the extra mile for me.  He a wonderful boyfriend.  In 7 short months he will be my husband.  I can't wait for that day!!!  I can't imagine a better life time partner to have beside me than that man. He still gives me butterflys, he is kind and sweet, he makes me smile at little things, he aggravates the hell out of me and can be soooo irritating.  He has my heart, right in the palm of his hand and he is cautious with it. We have been through so much together....a lot good, and some not so good.  BUt we made it out as a couple and now we are in it together till the end.

I'm thankful for a lot in my life. the ups and downs, the mistakes and the corrections, and all those who never left my side through it all.  So this thanksgiving I wish all of you a wonderful Holiday and a great day and know that I am grateful for every person in my life; you make it worth the ride!!!