Month of Gratefulness Recap

I started this with a thanks to an internet friend of mine last year.  I think I made it 5 or 6 actual days last year.  This year I actually made it to the middle of the month before busyness took over and I got too far behind to catch up.  That is better and I am thankful for that. 

I know that the whole thing annoys some people out in cyber space for sure, and I can certainly understand that.  HOWEVER,  I really am not doing it for anyone else's entertainment, but because of any desire to remember what is truly important. 

So I believe that my decision at the end of this month is,  I truly need to sit down once a week thought out this upcoming year to recap each week. 

This week, I am thankful for the ability to have been a stay at home mom for a big part of my kids lives.  I did not enjoy much of it at the time, but now as they are all grown or almost grown, I can see things in them that probably would not have been there if I hadn't been there for them.  I am also grateful that our life style has always been "Out of the Norm" of life, as I think I have equipped my children to more effectively roll with the punches that may come their way.   

I am grateful that I was taught through various means that everything we are presented with in life involves choices that we make.  The individual situation we are place in may not be by our choice, but our reactions to those situations, our ways of dealing with those situations, how we continue to live our lives on a daily basis after being placed in that circumstance, is our choice.