I know this is really grainy but I kid you not...I do believe it was raining on just this very edge of the lake....I HAD to get a picture...

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It is true what they say...giving thanks, feeling blessed and being grateful gives you power.  Uplifts your spirits and just has a way of making you feel...at peace.  I've been doing the 30 Days of November ( on FB )  and here we are on only the 8th day...and I think of things to be thankful for ALL day.  They come to me without prompting and I usually get mad because I've already posted for the day.



There is power in giving thanks....

My Oldest is now looking for a car.  Some one hit his car a couple weeks ago.  He's fine except he is driving his dad's truck and he of course feels inhibited in where he goes and what he does.  As well, he should.  Even though there was only damage to the front drivers side of the car, there was enough frame damage to total the car.  Makes me sad.

It makes me sad because the car he was driving was MY Lil Red Devil... this was my 'new leaf' car.  I purchased the car not to soon after my divorce.  At a time when I felt pretty down and out.  Alone.  Sad and EXTREMELY scared about the future.  This was my 'new leaf' and my begin anew.  At that time I actually remember thinking 'I might not be able to get my husband happy but I SURE can buy my own car.'

PLEASE UNDERSTAND....WHEN I SAID THIS I WAS BROKEN.  B.R.O.K.E.N

I've come a long way since then and the car has become a testament to what I can do and what I am capable of.  Even when I brought a new car in 2009, I still did not give her up.  I kept her so that my son could use her when he had his license and if she had made it...my Youngest son would have used her for a couple of years too.  She epitome's the 'New Leaf' era's.

In any case....we have got a lot of new beginings, new chapter and new era's going on in the household but I feel so UP to the task in tackling them.  And I'm thankful for that  :-)