Leads me to my first list of things to be grateful during the week of 1/13.
1. I got to fly to Florida in the middle of a cold winter week in Chicago and attend our annual sales meeting. A few of us ladies who work together decided to stay the weekend.
2. By staying the weekend I avoided a huge flight delay and cancellation of flights due to a heavy snow storm moving through the Chicago area.
3. I got a sunburn during the winter!
This week has been a quiet week. Nothing as exciting as last week but quiet can be good too!
1. My mother's birthday was this week. She has been gone almost 16 years. She would have been 78 years old this week. I don't know what she would have been like at 78. She was a tiny little thing but smoked which is probably what kept her so thin and yet what took her life. She was a nervous person with a high level of anxiety. Would she have been afraid to be old? Would she have suffered in another way with arthritis or cancer? We'll never know and in some way I'm grateful that she was relieved of any of that suffering. Having COPD, not being able to breath and dying at 62 was probably enough suffering for anyone. Maybe that was easier than what she may have had to deal with later. We'll never know but I'm grateful that she lived long enough to enjoy my two children when they were young. I'm grateful for the time we were given and that my two children got to have good memories of their grandmother.
2. Two years ago this week my brother passed away suddenly. It's hard to find something to be grateful for but I am grateful for having him as a brother. I'm grateful that he made me laugh so hard I cried sometimes. I'm thankful for being able to talk in depth about some of the hard times growing up. I hope wherever he is he knows that we all love him and miss him very much. There's a big hole in our family that he filled and it will never close. We'll always be a puzzle with a missing piece but we continue to try to fill the piece with our fond memories.
3. A lighter note, I kept hearing a banging sound in my car during the week. It sounded like something was loose and only happened now and then. When I slowed down or sped up as if something metal shifted. I got home the other night and found a silver platter I had left in the car from a party. That was the metal sound I was hearing! I'm thankful that there was nothing wrong with the car.
This weekend we're going snow tubing with the whole family. I'm looking forward to a great time. Creating laughter and memories and fingers crossed no broken bones or stitches!
Until next week!
Debbie
xoxo
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