Can it really be December? It feels like we were just diving into the heat of summer yesterday and now it’s cold and brisk outside, shopping is ramping up and all that holiday cooking is beginning. It was a year ago today that my husband had an emergency appendectomy and a year of health problems assaulted our family. It’s been a tough year from surgeries to cancer scares to wisdom teeth that took forever to take care of.
Thankfully, we celebrated Thanksgiving together as a family, healthy, happy and pretty whole. Last Friday, my daughter turned 7 and it’s hard to believe that my husband and I have been together for just over 12 years now. But as we prepare for the Christmas season and I wanted to take a minute to think again of all the things I am thankful for this holiday season.
I am thankful for my family.
I am thankful for my health.
I am thankful for my friends.
I am thankful for this community.
I am thankful to the holiday season which always reminds me of the child inside all of us.
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
This is also the 2nd Anniversary of Families.com. Two years ago, we launched these blogs and it felt very much like a tea room niche in a coffee clutch world, but here we are two years later with some wonderful ladies and gentlemen sharing the journey with us. I am grateful and thankful to all of you from Janet to Lisa to Valorie (my right and left arm this year) to Sherry and Courtney and every single one of the bloggers. You make the families.com experience fantastic and wonderful and I have loved every minute I’ve spent with all of you.
Welcome to December and a very merry holiday season to all of you. All I want for Christmas is another year of joy with all of you and my family, friends and pets.