Day by Day

When I picked up the book about the man who decided to dedicate a year to being thankful, I enjoyed the read and decided to commit to his project.  So back in October, I began the thank you project.  I decided to write a thank you note to someone each day for a year.  At first I thought it would be impossible to find someone to write to everyday, but instead, I have found a way to do that and I find myself looking for those things to be thankful for, versus looking for things to find what is not working-way too easy to do. I started with family just because of who they are and the affect they have on my life.  Then I had to actually start looking for things that came my way.  It really is a whole new way of looking at things.  I am by far, not perfect at it and there are days when I say, "hmmm....who now".  I also am not sure I will get to 365 days, but I am just going to try.  We are so thankful for things at Thanksgiving time, but do we take t...

I was at a church dinner last night to celebrate the holidays.  Most, not all, of the people are elderly.  I am by far one of, if not the, youngest person in both women's and men's club.  I enjoy the company of the different people I have come to know. One of the men had been brought from Masonic, I believe.  He came by ambulance and he was in a wheelchair.  He could not communicate too well, but people seemed to know what he needed and help him with dinner.  Toward the end of the night he was asking for something (only with a sound, not words) and no one could figure out what he was asking for. It brought me right back (regardless of age) to when Connor could not talk last year and everyone tried to figure out what he needed.  It felt so familiar......probably because we spent a few weeks doing that for Connor. I just think that it is funny how the human mind works.  Everything is going along fine and then you get a flashback or reminder of...