Friday, November 25, 2011

Blessings



Yesterday was Thanksgiving 2011.  It was a wonderful day.  This year has been full of surprises, and some disappointments as well.  But yesterday was all about the good that we have shared, all the many blessings we have received this year and the many years before we honored today.  One of the sweetest blessings I received this year was on Thanksgiving Day itself.  I was able to talk to my daughter in Tennessee for a bit, it was the greatest thing.  I have not seen her in 18 years, she is my first born and I lost her when she was just a couple of years old, and I never saw her again until she was 18.  Then it took another 18 years for me to find her again.  It's a story of lost and found and lost and found again.  She sounded just like me, and everyone says she looks like me, but I think she looks like her dad too.  I have two grand children I have yet to meet and I can't wait to get to meet them.  They are coming down for Christmas, what a wonderful day that will be.  She was born when I was really young, sixteen to be exact, or to be more exact four days before my seventeenth birthday.  We could have grown up together but the fates didn't allow it, choices were made, hard choices and they forever changed our lives.  She is an adult now, and she can make her own choices, so we will see how it all turns out.  A mother never forgets a child, at least this one didn't, no matter the circumstances, the memory of that child will haunt a mother till her death.  But because I know I have a loving Father in heaven, I don't have to wonder anymore, he has made a way for us to be together again, and I am so happy.  That's one blessing I will cherish forever!

Saturday, November 19, 2011

My BFF

I have a friend who is like my sidekick.  She keeps my in check, she also makes me laugh, and lifts me up when I am down, calms me down when I am angry, she's all those kewl things a friend should be and more.  She has more money than me, but she doesn't act like it.  She has a bigger truck than me, but she doesn't flaunt it.  She is way smaller than me, but she loves my fluffy self just the same.  I love this friend of mine, because I can be myself around her and never worry that she is judging me.  She never, ever tries to one up me by acting better than me or trying to out do me on anything.  She's just my friend and I love her, and I can always count on her to be there for me.  But not just me, she loves my family too, and she would give anyone the shirt off her back if she needed too.  She probably has I just don't know about it, cause that's how she is.  She doesn't ever brag, in all the time I have known her the only thing I have heard her brag about are her family.  We do that a lot!  I love her and her family and I want to be as good a friend to her as she has always been to me.  So I just want to say thank you my BFF!  For making my life a better one, for always having my back, and for loving me too!  You are the best girl and I hope we grow really old together, cause life without you would not be as happy!  Besides, who else is as crazy as me?