Thursday November 7, 2013....

    Today started with a beautiful sunrise.  Got to work on time, and it pretty much went down from there.  With the exception of wanting to bash my head into my desk a couple of times, I plugged on through it with a smile on my face.   Thank goodness for my friends laughing with me and helping me get through it.
     We had a wonderful dinner of homemade spaghetti and garlic butter croissants.  Ran my son on some errands and came home and read which is one of my favorite past times and does make me happy.
     I'm starting to realize how much it does help to try and laugh through the stress, and also how much the problems seem less stressful when you are finding so many things to be grateful for. 
     I keep seeing so many things that say to be grateful for what you have, don't focus on what you don't have and just live your life and be happy.  I'm happy to say that it may sound silly but it is so true.  I don't have a million dollars.  I don't have a place to call home.  I don't have enough money to truly support my kids. I don't always have food to feed them, but, I do have a job that pays me money to support them better than I could without a job.  I do have a dry place with heat for them to sleep, and I have a family and friends who always make sure we have food to eat even if it means going to eat with them.
   I am thankful for all that I do have, and find that my priorities of what I want have certainly changed since I have found my self on my own.  It's not about the movies, toys, electronics, or the material items but the necessities and really that's all that matters.
    I am thankful to have my children they are my life and I would be nothing without them.  I am thankful as always for my family and friends.  I am also thankful for the sunrise and sunset each day I get to witness it.  I am thankful for eyes to see the beautiful colors around me.  I am thankful for laughter and hope.  I am thankful for the ability to cook food my children enjoy.  I am thankful I can read and write, two of the most important things to me.  
     I am thankful I am me, and even though so days I wish I was anyone but me, I know there is a reason God made me who I am , and I pray I can become everything he wanted me to be.