My Husband

As I woke this morning to the familiar smells and sounds coming from the kitchen, I couldn't help but be grateful that I have a husband that loves me and our children enough to make sure that they not only have breakfast(normally cooked) but that dinner is cooked for when I get home from work. Yep hubby does the cooking for the family and being trained as a commercial cook, we do eat some really yummy food!! 

Our home life is not conventional but it works for us. My husband has lymphodema in both his legs and is on disability pension, so while he stays home I go to work.  He does the cooking and washing - both of the chores that I dislike the most. 

As our lives get busy, we tend to take for granted the things around us, for me this includes my husband, I forget how much I rely on him, how much I need him there and how much he balances me. All the little things he does for me that may, to most, seem inconsequential, but make me reflect on how lucky I am, from remembering not just my birthday but our anniversary as well (no he is not romantic at all.. but he remembers after 19 years that is great!) to knowing what my favourite flower is right down to knowing how I prefer my beans at dinner.  Sometimes I think he knows me better than I know myself. 

I tell him every morning that I love him and thank him at night for what he has done. I do this as much for myself as I do for him. I need that reminder to be thankful and to not take him for granted. 

When I get home from work tonight, I will remember to tell him how grateful I am to have him in my life.  

In The Beginning

So a few people have suggested I write a blog.  My initial thought was umm... no not me, I can't write a blog I would have nothing to say.

I don't consider myself to be a deep person and my inner thoughts don't scream out at me to be put onto paper, but here I am.

I have been contemplating what I could actually put into a blog that others might like to read and have decided that this blog while you are able to read it, would serve to be more of  a reminder to me, in this ever increasing age of complaining, consumerism and all the 'it's not fairs'  to help me see that my life truly is blessed and that I have so much to be thankful for (even on the hard days).

I read a magazine article once about a lady that was thankful and kept a diary to remind her about all the things in her life that she is thankful for. That is what I have decided that I will do with this blog (hopefully it takes that path).

I welcome you to be part of my journey and perhaps you to can be grateful everyday for not only the big things in your life but also the little things.