Recently I have had the bad habit of seeing the things we don't have, seeing everything as a problem and forgetting that we have oh so many blessings in our lives. So since we just celebrated Thanksgiving, and in an effort to be in a more Christ like mood for this Christmas season I have decided to make a thankfulness blog.
First off I am thankful for family. We haven't always gotten to spend the holidays with family but this year we got to spend Thanksgiving Day with both sides of my family. And then we got such a special treat yesterday. We missed Jeremy's family Thanksgiving because of time off issues but his cousin Eileen and her family made a special stop in Twin Falls to spend the night so that we could drive over and spend some time with them. We are still sad that we didn't get to see the rest of the family but we are so blessed to have seen Eileen, Brian and the kids. It was a wonderful, although much too short, visit and we all now know that we like 5 Guys Burgers.
I am also thankful for our health. Even though I seem to have passed my recent cold on to Jeremy we are both relatively healthy. I think of friends and family who have been or are battling such horrible health problems such as cancer and diabetes and I am so thankful that we don't face any of these problems. Along with this I am thankful that I am able to be stable with my Bipolar and live a happy functional life. Sure there are ups and downs but overall we are happy and healthy and I thank God for that.
I am thankful for our house. It's warm, has the fireplace I've always wanted, and other then having a dishwasher it is pretty much our dream home. We have dreamed since we got married of moving out of town and having a place where we could raise our own animals. Now goats weren't always part of the dream but I am so thankful for our three little goats who give us milk that we can use for so many purposes. Horses were always in the plan and I am thankful for Cimmy and Charlie who both have such wonderful personalities and have each bonded to one of use so that we have his and her's horses. And of course we can not forget our puppies. As I write this the puppies are at my mom and dad's house because they babysat them so we could go see Eileen and family. I miss them and their cuddles so much and cannot wait to go pick them up when I finish writing this. Both dogs have adjusted so well to being farm dogs although I will say Jynx is still our little princess and definitely is the "Green Acres" girl. Little Copper dog has become a regular little farm boy. He rolls in things I'd rather he didn't, sniffs EVERYTHING, and makes sure all of his animals are accounted for each time he goes outside. I honestly don't know what I would do without out animals.
I am thankful for both of our jobs. We are both very happy where we are at. Jeremy is still working at CAL Ranch and he loves it. He enjoys his coworkers and he loves learning more and more about animal health and being able to pass his knowledge on to his customers. Camp Hippo is my dream job and I'm so glad that we were at a point in our lives to be able to move here for this job when it came open. I love each and every one of "my kids" even on the days that I'm ready to pull my hair out. I work with a great bunch of therapists who I am always learning so much from. And being able to take my Copper dog to work with me is definitely a benefit not to mention all the other animals I get to interact with there.
I am thankful to be able to learn new things. We both enjoy learning and trying new things and our next adventure is make goats milk soap. We've been doing lots of research and hope to soon make our first batch. I will try to remember to take pictures so I can post about our adventure.
Above all I am thankful that I am married to my best friend. There is no one else that I would want to spend the rest of forever with. I love the long talks we have about random things and I love that I can discuss anything with him. Even if it is something from my research for work he will ask questions and learn right along with me. I am so thankful to be on this adventure of life with such a smart, kind, funny, loving man.
There are so many more things that I am thankful for including my faith, my friends, my car, having a freezer full of food, my electric blanket, I could go on and on. But no one has that kind of time to read about my every little blessing. I am so thankful to be able to count my blessings and to have a husband who helps me see that I really do have so many blessings. Even in our trials we are truly blessed and honestly when I step back and look at like the things I see as trials are so very small compared to the blessings.
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