Thankful for Life as Predicted

As predicted, life has most certainly slowed down a little bit.  The last 4 weeks of the year are my favorite at work because we go all out and decorate for Christmas.  The office is a beautiful building and a wonderful space regularly but exceptionally so during the holidays.  This is also the time of year that my family spends the most time together.  I love everyone traveling home to all pile into my parent’s 3 bedroom house.  We blow up air mattresses and bunk for a few days and nights together doing nothing but eating, drinking, and playing games or watching movies.  It’s simple but it’s our time and it’s my favorite. 

As far as Thanksgiving goes, we do not get together unless everyone just so happens to be home because it’s too much to take off from work for that holiday and then turn around and do the same thing for Christmas just a few weeks later.  I did, however, go over to my new in-laws house for lunch and get to visit and celebrate with them.  This year, the one thing that I’m the most thankful for is my happiness.  That may not sound like very much, but considering what life was like for me at one point in time I’m ever so thankful that I’ve been able to move on and recover from that part of myself.  I didn’t even realize that that was what I had lost but it was and having it back now is such a joy.  I’m a completely different mother, a different worker, a different significant other, and a different family member.  Life has its ups and downs and being a happy person gives me the ability to deal with both in a positive way.  My Lord promises never to let His will take me where His grace will not protect me and I’m thankful to have a testimony of that.       

Married life two months in couldn’t be any better.  Since my husband had to go back to work immediately after our wedding weekend we have waited and planned a little honeymoon for the week right before Christmas.  He will be home by then and we are going to take off to Puerto Rico for a week and lay on the beach.   I wanted to vacation somewhere warm and believe it or not Puerto Rico is one of the most beautiful islands and most reasonably priced in the Caribbean.  I’ve already started on my packing list I’m that anxious to get away with him! J  Our lives are a constant trip to here or there because he’s a pipeliner and always gone.  Unless it’s a time when he’s in between jobs we only get to see each other if I make a road trip to wherever he’s at.  Over so much time, with no break, that gets very hard, but for now I’m proud of how we’ve both handled it.  It’s never easy but we just reach a point where you accept it because it is what it is and spending time upset or angry about it does the situation no good.  I’m proud of the work he does and always look so forward to the time he’s at home. 

I feel like I’m never able to get on here and really write like I used to because of work and kids and pictures and now husband but in all honesty I don’t have anything else to write about.  Life is so good and that’s a good thing for us.  Holidays and being newly married is all for now…. I’m looking at that as a blessing that there’s nothing more to report on in life.

Until next time enjoy the holidays and all that comes with it.