A New Year

A wonderful woman and friend of mine, challenged all of her friends to keep a daily gratitude blog this year. Every day we're supposed to come up with one more thing we're grateful for, and blog about it. The outcome is supposed to be that we end up with 365 things we are grateful for by the end of the year. I know there's a lot of things in my life that I take for granted, so I thought I'd accept her challenge and start my gratitude blog.

Today is the first day of not only a new year, but a new decade. It feels like a double fresh start!

Today I am grateful for what the last 10 years brought to me. I was able to travel Europe and even into Africa (we all know that wasn't my most pleasant memory) I found a new self by losing 200 pounds. I received my temple endowments. I got two of the greatest gifts in the world, when Tanner and Andrew joined my family. I learned a lot from being in an abusive marriage, and I also grew as a person! My testimony was strengthened over and over, and I had MANY instances of being able to clearly see the Lord's hand in my life. I made friends, and lost friends...and then got some of those lost friends back! It was truly one heck of an emotional roller coaster of a decade, but I'm grateful for every single thing I experienced, learned, saw, and the mistakes that I made!!

I'm excited to see what the next decade brings, and super excited that 2010 is bringing me another precious son to love!