grateful

I am so grateful for the every day things, little things, that are my life.  Big events happen, happy and hurtful, and they seem to mark us in a big way forever, but the every day things are the things that, for the most part, give us happiness or some hurt, help us grow as people, give us lessons, and, most importantly for me, make us smile.  The every day achievements, disappointments, hugs, friendship, laughter, moments of quiet...I'm so grateful for all of these every day things.

Grown up'd pretty intensely this week...  :)  I'm really liking me, and I'm really liking who I know I want to be and can be.  Good and not good.  All of it.  I won't go on and on with cliches, but you know what I mean.

I start my job Monday!  And we celebrated my youngest's 13th birthday this week!  I now have 4 teenagers!  What???  And I got to meet some new people, had high tea Kennedy style with my daughters, my mama, my sissy, and my sisters by heart, watched Alabama win, celebrated another birthday with a very special family, and smiled.  Today I'll watch the Bucs win big and smile more.  :)

The last couple of months I've had to take steps forward, and some painstakingly backward, with a lot of patience, and I think it's been good for me.  The old pieces of me that I ask you to walk past when you see them are haunting me less and less and I've left them where they fell.  The new pieces of me feel so much better.  I'm grateful.