funder don't go away...

well i wish it would rain and the little girls wish it would rain, but they want to make the thunder go away. we need the water and so if this thunder will bring us some rain too that would be great. I have to add that it is so easy to take things and people for granted. I read yesterday that our friend's little boy's tumor has grown after this amazing miraclous year of holding it off. He will get his make a wish trip to swim with the manatees. I cried when I read that. They moved shortly after we moved here but she was always kind to me and I really appreciated that. As I get older and the trials that we are all faced with seem to much bigger and so much harder than when we are young. I think of the mom's with broken hearts that miss the children they have lost or the mom's who wish they could put their fractured families back together or the dad that loves his kids so much and his wife that decided one day it was time for a divorce. I have seen 6 families in the past six months be fractured by divorce.
I realize that life is hard and it is challenging, but humility is probably the hardest attribute to keep going in a marriage. As you get older you think you are right and you don't always compromise. It gets easier to blame, and harder to quickly forgive. But like that song says...what about the love we made she's upstairs wondering what she did wrong.....
Families are started because as many people's signs say "All because two people fell in love..."
It is remembering that that can be hard in this crazy world that pulls us in all different directions.
So thank you, Jeremy for being loving, forgiving, and willing to listen to me even when I nag and complain and whine and gripe-I love you so very much and I am so glad that I will have you forever. I appreciate all the hard work you do each day for us and for me-so that I can stay home with the kids and have that time with them.
We are on day 5061 of marriage and "what a beautiful day-oh what a feeling-what a wonderful emotion-what a life-counting our blessings and knowing-we've had our ups and downs all along the way-you had a chance to leave but chose to stay-what a beautiful day!"-Kenny Chesney