It has been a long week and I have not had much chance to blog. I am thankful for that, because I do better when I am able to keep busy. I was able to do my first Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) this week and it was a great experience. My brother and his wife are coming to visit for the next two weeks. I am thankful to have the time to spend with him as his health is not good and it is a reminder to take the time to tell the people we love how much they mean to us. I know that there most likely will be some talk of our childhood, much like what happened when my sister visited. This is good, as we have a chance to voice things that maybe we as adults have not expressed yet. I will be thankful to have that opportunity. I know that after my sisters visit it brought us much closer and if it can do the same for my brother then I will be happy. As a family torn apart by abuse to be able to try to understand and heal old wounds and draw strength and be a family is amazing. I am thankful that my sister and brother and my mom are who they are, each of them amazing in their own way, I am thankful to have the family that I do have.
Okay on the lighter side of things I would like to look at the day to day things that we may forget to be thankful for......
Some-days it is hard to say that we are thankful for any one particular thing, but maybe it's just the fact that someone slowed down enough on the freeway this morning to let you merge into traffic without running you off the road, or that when you said "thank you" to the clerk at the corner store where you get coffee they smiled back and meant it when they said "have a nice day". Am I thankful that my mother, who lives with my husband and I, still kisses me good night even though I'm nearly 50, you bet!!!! Yes even though my check engine light is on, I'm thankful for the fact that my car hasn't started smoking and that it still gets me to where I need to go and that I hopefully have sometime and money in the near future to fix it. I'm always thankful when I go into a public restroom and it is clean and there is toilet paper and soap, come on we all know that we breath a silent sigh of relief. How about being thankful for that when I take my dogs out for a walk, I've been lucky and have picked poo bags that don't have holes in them. Come on people, lighten up, laugh, it's something to be thankful for, laughter and joy don't cost us anything, and we should rejoice in the things that can make us laugh. I'm thankful for having a sense of humor even if no one else gets it. I'm thankful to be laughing instead of crying or moping about. I hope that everyone can find something, big or small to be thankful for. Oh, I'm also thankful for Spellcheck, that way I don't look like a complete idiot.
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