Grateful and Fortunate

Merry Christmas to you all, and to those of you that don't celebrate this day, Happy Holidays.

Regardless of the day however, I am feeling very grateful that I am married to a kind gentle man, I have two wonderful kids, and we all live in a great house. I feel very fortunate to have been able to keep living in this house, along with the aforementioned's help. We pooled our energy and gave our home a sprucing up so that the appraisal was enough to refinance (we had run into some financial difficulties and until very recently, it looked like we'd have to sell our home!)

We didn't have much to spend on gifts, but we had little things for each other and we had a very enjoyable day together and that felt great! During dinner, another thing that we weren't sure we could afford to do, we all let each other know how we felt and the food seemed to taste extra good this year.

There are some very generous people out there; we received some money to pay for the broken window (with the weather getting colder we really needed that) and we also received, not one, but TWO hampers of food! Believe me, whenever any of this family gets a chance to help someone out, we will!

I don't know how many of you are familiar with the movie "Pay It Forward", but that is what our family is doing.

Anyways, I hope that you all enjoy the coming of the new year and that your dreams come true for 2008!