My Lill' Life: Being thankful isn't just for November

School is starting soon (like next week soon!) and that means I have a lot on my mind right now. Not to mention there have been some heartbreaking things that have happened lately. In the midst of these, I'm really trying to keep things in perspective. I need to remind myself of all the things I can be thankful for right now... I have an AMAZING husband (who loves me through everything and strengthens me all the time) and family (I could not ask for more amazing people to be related to), my friends are constant reminders at how blessed I am (thank you to each and every one of you - even you new ones!) I have a job that I love (even though right now it is one of the things weighing on my mind), I am healthy (thank you Lord!), I have a house that I really enjoy. The list could go on & on... and so even when things are hard, frustrating, overwhelming or stressful I try to remember all the things that I am thankful for, all the ways that I'm blessed beyond measure. We have these flowers that grow in our backyard that just started blooming recently. They are growing in a ditch. Yes, a ditch full of leaves and brush and leftover stuff from working in the yard. I believe what happened was that when we were doing some yard work after we first moved into our house, we must have somehow pulled up some bulbs and they got dumped in the ditch with all the other stuff from the front yard. And now they grow up out of the ditch (that we never water or tend to or look after) and yet they keep surviving! They are absolutely beautiful, I don't know what they are but they make me happy and somehow remind me to be thankful of all that I have. These flowers are making it with hardly anything! I can make it, I can make it through hard times because I have an abundance of blessings and plenty to be thankful for. Here they are the flowers that have reminded me to be thankful for all things!