Feeling Grateful

Hello! It's been another long break, but I have started uploading videos to my channel again so if you've missed me, please go and take a look on my channel. I will try and remember to post a link to my channel at the bottom of this blog.

Today, I was feeling kind of sentimental because our sixth month wedding anniversary is tomorrow, but also it's the month of Thanksgiving! This is the time where everyone should be grateful and show thanks for all the good things we have in our lives. Also, with the way things have been going for these past few weeks, we all need some love.

I'm actually posting this blog using the Blogger app so it's going to be a short blog and I hope everything works, but if not, I'll troubleshoot and try again. In order to keep this blog short(er), I'm breaking it into week increments. So for this blog, it will end on Day 7 and hopefully, sometime in the next few days, I will have the next seven days posted. Now, without further ado:

I'm grateful for....

Day 1: A husband who loves me. Caleb and I have been together for over 6 years and I couldn't ask for a better soul mate. He supports me in everything I do and makes sure that he takes care of me. More on that later. ;)

Day 2: A brother who is also my best friend. My brother and I are about 3 years and 6 months apart so we're pretty close in age. We've always been by each other's side through thick and thin so I've never felt alone. He's off doing his own thing now, but it makes me happy to know that we make a point to be there for each other and to support what the other one does.

Day 3: A small, but close family who wish the best for me. My family is spread all over, but the ones that live close to home make a point to visit and wish me well in all my endeavours so that I've never felt unwelcome or unloved. Sometimes we fight, sometimes we feel lost, but never abandoned. I'm glad I always have someone to count on.

Day 4: Great friends who value my opinion. Caleb and I are fortunate in that we share a lot of our friends. It's one of the perks to being together so long I think because some of our friends don't even know us as a separate entity. And among our friends, we're generally seen as the more responsible ones that help sort out life's difficulties. So whenever I feel unappreciated or undervalued, one of our good buddies are always around asking for advice or just checking up on us.

Day 5: A job that grants me a lot of different experience. Honestly, a couple of months ago, I was a little lost and unsure of what direction life was heading. I had a great support team, but not the opportunities that I needed to get ahead. Then fortunately, sometime in September I started subbing at a school near my area and I have been in all kinds of classrooms with all kinds of age variations and I feel more prepared now than I ever did at the end of student teaching.

Day 6: A college education that I worked hard to achieve. Not only did I manage to escape debt free with my bachelor's degree, but I also spent 5 years of my life trying to get it. It wasn't easy and a lot of the times, I had mental breakdowns trying to figure out how to carry on. Eventually, I made it through and I can't believe sometimes that I made it through that phase of my life.

Day 7: A flexible demeanor that helps with my job. Life is crazy. Work IS crazy. This one seems a little out there, but I am extremely glad that I have managed over the years to work around things that are stressful or crazy. I think that comes with all the positive, helpful people in my life so I can't say that it's all me, but I do think that my personality has helped me work around obstacles that were scary or intimidating. So a good lesson here is learn to be flexible.

Thanks for reading guys and I will keep you posted!