I have yet to post a thankful post on Facebook. Mostly this is because I don't want to come up with thirty individual things I am thankful for. I think I have more than that, but maybe I have less. Whatever the case, I don't want to be on day 29 and think, oh no, I have five more I need to put out there, or to be on day 29 and having to post I am thankful for my mailman or some sort of nonsense like that. I am not sure if I have 30 days worth or not, so this is how I am going to do this whole thing. I mean, I really hate to be left out after all!
After reviewing all my friend’s posts and
realizing that it is AWESOME to be thankful, I want to post my own but in a
very overwhelmingly long version, not daily, but only once, and meant to be
read only by those who want to know what I am thankful for. This is where the rest of you depart for
greener pastures, because, truly, I don’t know how to write in short form, so
this, no doubt will end up very long. I will add that I will not tell you I am thankful for my wallpaper or for the flowers I recently planted in my garden. Those are not things I am really thankful for. Those are things I like. The things I am thankful for are human....and also furry.
I am most, most, most thankful for my family….immediate and
otherwise. I have been blessed with a
wonderful, patient and understanding husband that puts up with all my craziness
and still sticks around for more. I got
lucky and married the man of my dreams and I could ask nothing more in life
than that. I am thankful for my two daughters, both creative,
smart and beautiful, that first gave my life meaning. Without these two
beautiful people, I would be lost. They taught me how to love and how to be
loved. They are forever in my heart and
I am forever tied to them. I am thankful
for my sons. Two acquired and the one born
to me. All cemented into my heart in a
way that very few people ever will be. I
am thankful and unbelievably blessed for having been chosen by one son to be
his mother. How many moms can say that? I
am eternally grateful for this and for him.
I am grateful as well that I was graced with a boy of my own. He is the sweetest most loving little person
and he bridged our step families into one.
This little person tied us all together for eternity, and then decided
to be completely awesome and sweet to boot.
Knowing Kellan is a blessing. I
am so happy that he is mine!
I am grateful for my extended family. My biological sister, who is my rock. The sister who did not start out as my ally, but
who is now the person I turn to first for help, laughter, fun, condolences and support. Without her I am lost. I am
grateful for my step brother and sisters that have brought so much into my
life. Without them, I don’t know how I
could feel whole. They are in my soul
like they were in my genes. They have
been there forever, we have been through everything and they stand by my side
and by the side of my family at all times and I am forever grateful. My life is enriched by them being in it and I
am completely blessed to be able to call them brother and sisters. I am not even sure who I would be without them. They truly take the step out of the step
family They are my family. I am thankful for my step father who when
nobody was looking snuck me help in the form of a check for the repair of my
broken down car and did so without asking for recognition or praise as is so
his nature. He is gracious and loving
and took on a pretty damned terrible teenager and did so with love and
gentleness. He has enriched my life just
by being in it. I am thankful to have a
stepmother who has been such a present person in the lives of my children. My son looks so forward to seeing her and
getting e cards sent from her. My
daughter feels her support and that goes such a long way in the life of a 15
year old! I am thankful for my other
step sister who is an unbelievably talented artist who I am just recently getting
to know. She defines cool and you can
find her picture in most grocery stores on a bottle of hot sauce, because she
is just that cool!
I am grateful for my mother and father who have supported me
through all my life even when I was not fun to support. After going through the teenage years with my
own children, I realize that it was harder than I imagined to be my
parent. Raising a headstrong opinionated
kid can’t be easy. Doing it as single parents,
even harder. My mom took the early shift
in my life and my dad the latter. I have
been equally parented. I am grateful to
still have the desire to call them and talk to them and seek them out to have
fun with. From what I hear, that is
something! I am forever grateful to my
mother who has been there every step of the way with my children. She is their
go to person. The one they call when mom
just can’t understand. I love that.
I am so completely thankful for my grandparents. Only one is still living, but he is the best
human being I have ever had the privilege to meet. I would put him up against anyone else’s best
person and I have no doubt in my mind he would win whatever award might be
given to the best person alive. He is
kind, honest, sincere, truthful, and humble.
He is not too good to help anyone in need nor is he too whatever to sink
to a level in which he would hurt another person. My grandmothers who are no longer alive were also
awesome. One I think of every day for
her lessons. She was like a mother and I
hear her voice everywhere. She is my
safe place and the person that no matter how long ago she died, is still the
brightest spot in my heart. I am forever
connected to her and forever the words that she spoke to me when she was alive
will be alive in my heart. The other,
she was a friend. She was honest and
blunt and I loved to be with her and hear what she had to say. (Most of the time it was what no other person
had the courage to say.) She had more friends that you could count and
was loved by so many. I never did figure
her out, but I am probably most like her in my actions and for this I am not truly grateful. J
IN the early days of my children’s lives, she was a huge help. She would talk to me during the endless hours
I spent rocking my children to sleep. The late night conversations and the little
tips on what to avoid and what to really look into were priceless. Knowing her was a blessing because I better
understand myself. My grandpa that
passed away a bit ago was hilarious. He
was fierce, but not. He was friendly,
but not. He was funny, but not. He was the opposite of himself all the
time. I loved this man. He paid me to bother my grandma and who could
not love a person like that. He had high
values and was a loving husband.
My cousins….I cherish each one of them. I was lucky enough to get to know most of
them very well, and I am so lucky that most of them are still in my life on a
very current basis. My childhood would
not be the same without them. They were
like siblings and we grew up together.
These memories are some of my favorites.
Lastly, my friends. I
have lived in a few places and have met people from all walks of life. I am
lucky to have kept in touch with friends from my childhood and adolescence. These friends mean the world to me. People told me that we would all go our
separate ways and lose touch, but I am so happy that no matter what, most of us
stay connected. I hope that the few that are not still, will be again. I am grateful to have had the chance to get
to know and love people from all parts of the world, and all religious,
political and worldly spectrums. I
cherish the friendships that I have made from city to city and mostly I cherish
the real people that I have met that are willing to be real, to be in the
present and to contribute to my life and/or the life of my children. I can’t believe my fortune when I think about
all the people that have come into my life that have made me think, made me
grow and who have not been afraid to be real with me. Those are the friends that
I will cherish for a lifetime. They don’t
all fit into a box, and for that I am so grateful. I have had the pleasure of having friends
that are completely out of the box thinkers and actors, people that tow the
straight line, people who want to investigate every thought and idea, those who
want only to live in the moment, and those whose moral compass guides them on a
straight path at all times. To all of
you, no matter what your philosophy or opinion is on any given subject I am blessed
that you came into my life for one reason or the other, and provided you have
treated me and my family fairly, I am
glad to have known you, I will be glad
to know you forever.
Lastly, I am seriously thankful for my cats. One of them , Bandit really is awesome. He is comforting, sweet, funny and smart. If someone in my family is feeling lonely or sad, he is the first person to be by their side. This is something for sure. I am not thankful for his insulin shots twice a day even while we are out of town and having to pay someone to come over twice a day to do it, but I am so thankful for him that I force my husband to pay for that anyway. Bandit rocks, and he really should be able to rock a few more years of our lives. I include the other cat because I feel I have to but I am not really sure if I am truly thankful for her or not. Her constant barfing due to bulumia is not something I am thankful for as well as so many other unmentionables, but I just feel that i need to be thankful for her, so I will say that I am. I mean, she is kinda cute.
I’m not sure about the origins of anything nor am I willing
to claim I know anything, but I feel that there is a reason that we encounter the
people that we do, and I am positive that MOST of the people I have encountered over my
lifetime have led me to where I am now and I am grateful for all of you for
that!
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