Thankful

From the first day of October until Thanksgiving day I tried to post something I was thankful for everyday on my Facebook account.  It is an exercise that makes you stretch your mind a little on hard days, when you feel like screaming at the top of your lungs and pulling your hair out, but it is very useful.  We really should be thankful so much more than we are, and sometimes I wonder why we are wired so that finding a negative is so much more easy then finding a positive.  I really wish I was always a glass half full kind of person, instead of the "The glass is not only half empty, but it's cracked on the bottom and the little water left is pouring out at an alarming rate" kind of person.

I always feel like we are at the brink of falling off a cliff.  And that is just a ridiculous way to be.  We may not have everything we want, but we have the things we need.  My daughter has food and clothes, she is warm at night, and even has toys to play with.  We don't have our own place, and all of stuff is packed in boxes gathering dust for the last two years, but we have somewhere to live with family, which is another thing too many people don't have.

I started my thankful posts with things that were shallow, small things, because the ones that first popped into my head are the big ones, and I like to go out with a bang so I saved them.  I am so thankful for my husband, he is my rock and I don't know what I would do without him.  And I am thankful for my daughter, because she teaches me things everyday and really knows how to cheer you up with a smile.  My family is what I am thankful for those two, and my extended family, both the one I was born into and the one I married into.  I am thankful for them now and forever.