Thankful

It's pretty quiet around here.  After a wonderful Thanksgiving break, filled with the girls fun and kooky energy, with baking and shopping and visits to family and a party....the girls have both gone back to their other lives...and Alex and I are feeling the loss...and the quiet, as we take some time to relax and prepare for our busy week ahead.

Some of you may remember that I issued a challenge one month ago... to write a letter of thanks each day.  I have done that...mostly, and so has Alyssa.  Of course, quite a few of mine are still sitting in the car waiting to be mailed...but that's another story.

Alyssa and I have discussed our experiences doing this.  We have discusse that it was easier at the beginning, harder toward the end....to find the time, and to write a letter of substance...as it was getting to be more of a labor...something we had to do.  But we both agreed, that the act of  thanking someone...and thinking about how much another person means to us in our life...simply by being themselves and doing what they do, was a blessing to us...and it made us happy to write those letters of thanks (and I will be even happier when I get them all mailed).

We weren't expecting the reactions we got to those letters...the people we wrote to often wrote back...and were so touched.....which indeed made us even happier, knowing that we had made someone happy!!  And think about how it would feel...if people actually communicated to you that they were thankful for you....I think the world would be a brighter place.  So, the month of November is over, but I will still continue to think of someone in my life that I am thankful for each day....and maybe once in awhile, I will write and tell them.

And though, the holidays, sometimes make us keenly aware of what we don't have...I will make it my aim to be thankful for all the many blessings that I do have!!

“Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world.  Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.” 

~ Richelle E. Goodrich