What I am thankful for

I am thankful for a lot. This year has been amazing for our family.

In travel, we have been to some really great places – from the Colorado Rockies to the Bahamian shores to magical Disney in Florida. By plane, train, and automobile we traveled and have seen, learned, and bonded as a family. I am thankful for the opportunity to share and hopefully inspire you with our stories.

At home we’ve also had many adventures, including a move 30 minutes out of New York City and into more room to grow and play.

I continue to walk around my beloved city almost daily, sometimes for work, more often for inspiration and to connect with friends.

I’ve lost 30 lbs and counting since August, and have been on a fitness journey that has changed my life in ways I never thought possible and has inspired me and motivated me even more so.

We’ve been lucky this year. We have our health (for the most part), are happy in the strongest, purest way possible, and when most families are experiencing hard times and struggles, we have been able to stay afloat.

I take nothing for granted. Absolutely nothing. For it has not always been this way. I know what it is like to struggle emotionally, physically, financially. And thus, even in my noisy, busy, crazy little world I can stop and appreciate it all for having overcome so much and for having my family to help me overcome whatever the future may have in store for us.

There is a lot I can live without, there’s a lot I would be willing to give up if I had to, but my family – “my guys” as I often call them, are my rock, my foundation, my home. And I am thankful for every minute I get to kiss a boo-boo, or share my bed, or say I’m sorry after a marital spout, or step on a loose Lego.

For all the reasons people may think I am lucky or happy, I can tell you all without pause or hesitation that really, truly, there are 4, and I get to be mother to 3 and wife to 1 of them.

La Familia

This post is not to brag, but to celebrate them…and remind myself, that nothing matters more in this world then the family I have been fortunate enough to call mine.

I love them more then life itself. More than anyone else alive or dead. And I am so incredibly thankful to be loved by them in turn.

Happy Holidays from my family to yours. Hold on to the blessings life gives you and focus not on the things it does not. So fragile are the gifts we are given, so unpredictable is life. Love hard, strong, and long and may the following days, weeks and years be full of joy, peace and love for you and yours. May you have much to be thankful for too.

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