I watch the Giuliana and Bill show (Giuliana from E! news and her husband Bill, entreprenuer) and she has had to postpone her public attempt to become pregnant through IVF. I cried watching her interview b/c my twins were conceived via IVF on the FIRST try. For her - after a miscarriage, she was trying to go through her third round and found out she has breast cancer. At 36. I know it's a nightmare to go through infertility treatments. She has had such a good attitude about it and said after treatment she's going to keep trying and said, this baby will have saved her life since the cancer was found during routine screening before IVF. I try to be grateful everyday and know sometimes I fall short. She has inspired me and, after hearing this, I want to list the things I'm gratefrul for. I carry this list in my purse so I remember to remember:
* Moving to a new home where kids have friends
* Removing toxic people from my life
* Blessed with my b/g twins and now my kids are at an age where I can enjoy them more.
* Being able to stay home with my kids and working occasionally because I enjoy it
* Have ability to go back into video production (my first career choice - not easy to get into)
* Got diagnosis for Behcet's Syndrome. It's rare and hard to get diagnosed!
* God regularly answering my prayers (even if it's not always on my time table!)
* Having family who love me and accept me for who I am
* Having a loving husband - the second one, but the RIGHT one.
What are you thankful for?
I am thankful for a lot of different things, but one thing I have used as my motto through life is that as bad as I have it, there is someone out there who has it a lot worse than I do, so I need to be grateful for what I have now.
That has gotten me through some pretty low parts in my life.
I'm grateful for my kids, my job, my brothers, my sil, my health, being born in America, a Forgiving God, a loving husband, good food, good music, a grown up daughter that has become my bestfriend, and cold beer.
My God.
My husband.
My son.
My family.
My home.
My freedom.
My job.
Well, I am grateful for a lot. I am so very thankful for finding my faith and making Christ a part of my daily life. It has made a phenominal difference in my family. And of course I am so thankful that I have been given the gift of being a mom and wife!!!
Being an american
My kids are healthy and smart
I love my husband and hes good to me
That autumn is upon us!
im also thankful for small things...like spandex maternity pants, pickles being fat free, Led zeppelin and google t.v....:)
1. For going in for a routine eye exam in October 1999. The doctor discovered I was almost completely blind in my left eye due to a retinal detachment. Right eye had compensated for it. If I'd gone in just a couple weeks later, surgery would not have restored my eye sight.
2. The makers of Concerta. They've completely transformed our son's life. They get knocked all the time by people who don't understand ADHD at all when they've enabled people like our son to lead a normal life.
having the most perfect son (but doesn't every mom think that lol)
having a great husband who is also an amzing father
owning our house (no morgage makes stressfull times slightly less stressfull)
the daughter I am carrying now
the knowledge that even though we struggle alot my son has never known what it is like to go hungry
the fact that i have my mood disorder under control (no cutting or burning for almost 3.5 yrs now!)
The fact that even though I have an eating disorder I haven't done (by last check) any real bad irreversable damage to myself (other then the enamel on my teeth)
Having a close family (I call my mom two to three times a day...I drive her crazy lol)
Well, I must have been very good in another life because my kids are FANTASTIC. And lemme tell ya, I am just NOT that great!
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*to live in this wonderful country, i am a very proud american
*believe in a higher faith, My God is an awesome God
*my husband
*my children
*freedom
*surrounding myself with wonderful people
For my miracle babies, the ability to stay at home with them, for my loving husband, supportive friends and family, good health, and my husband's job.
Infertility is a nightmare that I no longer have to live through. My heart goes out to all that struggle with this. People WANTING to be parents and can't.
Soooo much...
I'm thankful for my family, big, ornery, but my family..
My house and the fact that we have so many great stores nearby...
My daycare and the fact that I stay more full than a lot of providers I talk with on a regular basis. We are blessed and our kids are great.
My pets...we have too many, but we all love them and want to save as many as we can..
My God and he should be at the top! We have nothing without him, absolutely nothing.
The pastors and ministries that I enjoy listening to, the internet, and all my devices that I like to listen to them on. I'm the gadget queen.
Every day is a new day full of promises of blessings we don't deserve but that God delights in giving us.
having the ability to love
I have quite a few things! I have a perfect almost 7 year old daughter who is very happy and very healthy and I have a 1 month old daughter who is also healthy...although not happy all the time! :) My amazing hubby who is also perfect(in my eyes) and an extremely supportive, loving extended family(including in-laws)!
I have a cousin on one side of my family who was diagnosed with a very rare cancer last year and was given 2-7 years. And we just found out that my uncle on the other side has throat cancer. So...lately, I've been thinking a lot about how lucky I am to have what I have...
I have so many things. So many. I know I am lucky, I know I have been blessed, and I try hard to deserve it, and be grateful.
For my amazing son and loving husband who keep me on my toes, and find new reasons to make me love them more and more each day!
