HAPPY THANKSGIVING...

It's that day again, seems like it was just here...

yet here it is again,

the day we take time to relax and celebrate with the ones

we love, we give thanks for all our good things in our

world, our life. 

This has been on hell of a year for me and my babies

and yet, today, I am so very very thankful for the

way things are coming together for us all.

Ronnie and I are finding us getting past the shock 

of separation, to a place of being civil to now working on

being friends. I say this without meaning to put him down,

but it took us figuring out the marriage could not work to

find us both happy again. And I am happy. I won't lie,

there are days that nostalgia cloud my thinking, my eyes,

and I may shed a tear or two, but I look at our two

grown children and know, we were not perfect parents,

far from it, but we have raised two independent wonderful

adults who give back to society.

 Then there are the two grand babies, two beautiful little girls

who call me Mumsie.

I swear to this blog and all those I love,

I would give up everything to have these girls.

When Bean puts her arms around me when she

is almost asleep and in her sleepiness she says,

"I love you Mumsie" 

I feel all that is right in the world and there is a lot right.

There is a lot not right but today,

all is right.

 Then there is Tuts, oh our Tuts..

can any baby be more laid back, sweeter 

than our Tuts? Bean was the first, but Tuts

being second, well she is the type of baby that goes

with the flow. when I rock her to sleep and she slides

the same two fingers in her mouth from her left hand,

just like her Daddy, I am transformed back to a time,

29 years back when her Daddy did the same on the 

same shoulder. she is such a blessing.

 I am thankful for the days I get to see Bean and Tuts

together, playing. What Bean will do to entertain her

sister is amazing. I forget sometimes that she is just 

3 1/2, not 4 until March. She has the sense of most adults

and is so overprotective of "her baby"

While reading to her the other night, there was a little

girl in the book and she said,

"Mumsie, I wish she was my sister"

I explained that Tuts won't be little for much longer,

that soon she will be like her, a little girl just like

the little girl in the book.

"and we can sleep together?"

Yes, my sweet child, you and Tuts will spend many nights

sneaking into each others beds.

This reminded me of my own two. Every Christmas eve

until I think Baby boy was 16, he and Gypsy landed

up in each others beds, I often wonder the secrets they shared

on that special night. Maybe I should have made them

go into their own beds so they could fall asleep faster so 

Santa could come and Mommy could go to bed,

but I didn't. Because even then, I knew whatever they were

talking about was necessary for their relationship.

Today, they remain close as adults.

I am thankful I didn't interrupt those nights....

Last but not least, I am thankful for all

my friends and family, especially my sisters who have

gotten me through some rough patches this year.

I can't name them all and the good thing about true

friends and family, you don't have to repay them because

they and you all know that their time is coming that

they will need you and I will be here.

A special thanks that my besties are mines.

That my dear Ann has her Moody for hopefully many years

to come, that he overcame an illness that almost made my Ann

a widow.

and my Laurie.... I cannot even begin to explain what she has

been to me these last few months, not only does she listen

to all my single girl issues, but she gives good advice

and loves me no matter what. She shares her girls with me

and how I love those girls. 

HAPPY THANKGIVING TO YOU ALL, MY FOLLOWERS.

REMEMBER YOUR REASONS FOR BEING

THANKFUL.