Thankfulness...

We have made it over 2 months! I'm so excited and thankful. I kept telling myself if I could get the kids in school, time would fly. Yes- almost the first week is done, and I know everything will be going so fast now. The kids are already counting down to Hallelujah night at our church now.

Speaking of being thankful, at first the thought of this deployment really freaked me out. I wasn't sure how it would go without my dad. And although I try to have a grateful attitude about people, I know before my dad died, I did tend to take things for granted. Or maybe I realized, but didn't outwardly show my appreciation as well. Now I try very hard not to take people in my life for granted. And with my dad being gone, I have gained an even bigger circle of people who have stepped in. I'm not saying I'm glad my dad is gone, or that I think he needed to be in order for me to learn these lessons... However, I do feel like I'm more open to finding positive things. I hope he truly sees us here and is smiling.

Another thing to be thankful for- we are having our "forever" table built. It's so amazing. I've gone to see it in different phases a couple times now and have received pics of the progress as well. I'm just so excited. Truly a work of art and labor of love. I can hardly wait for Dennis to get home and have a big family meal around our table. It's 8' so it's going to take up a huge chunk of our kitchen. I feel like that's perfect. 😍