Blessed

Weight lost this week: -1.0 lbs
Total Weight loss: -12.0 lbs

I'm trying to be so excited because a loss is a loss, but it's putting me short of my 20 lb goal by May 27.  I need to start adding in exercise - but when?

Occassionally, I'll have a day where I wake up and I realize, I'm blessed.  Clearly, I'm blessed to have a great husband, a beautiful daughter, a stable job, a nice place to live, a decent car, etc....

But it's more than that.  There's always more.  I'm blessed by things that I really have no control over.  And it amazes me.

I have an amazing (extended) family.  I've always known this - and we don't talk as much as we probably should.  But we're a close family.  And there's issues.  Boy, are there issues...  But I know, when it comes right down to it, they - every. single. one. of. them. - will be there.  That doesn't surprise me.  But....somehow, when I think of everything my cousin and her daughter are going through, there's this clarity and sense of peace of it all if I think about my family and how all of us - every. single. one. of. us. (including spouses - are praying and loving them, and how that is going to be what helps this little girl survive this - because none of us are ready to let her go.

But it doesn't stop there.  I have unbelievable friends.  Again, I've always known this.  There are some I've known practically my whole life, some I've met more recently - but I know I can always, always count on them.  I get sad that I don't get to talk to them much anymore (it's super hard to talk on the phone with a toddler, ha), but somehow, it feels like nothing changes between us - when we do get to talk, we can pick up right where we left off.

So if I've always known all of this, why am I feeling so blessed today?  I don't know.  I don't know there's much of a point to this post either, other than to say Thank you for blessing my life.