thirty days of thanks

Since I started on day three, I figure I have a bit of making up to do...

day 1: I am thankful for health.

day 2: I am thankful for the great job that my husband has, and thankful for the awesome part time job I have which I LOVE (such a change from my previous place of employment..)!!

day 3:...I already did day three

day 4: I am thankful for pumpkin spice anything.... Candles, body spray and coffee creamer. It makes the fall/holidays season that much more enjoyable. 

day 5: I am thankful that I have a happy home to come home to each day. Its warm and smells homey!!

day 6:  IS TODAY!!!  - I am thankful for my husband and and our relationship's ability to grow and change. We started dating at a youngish age of 20ish. We are now pushing thirty. In that time we've been kids together, had a long distance relationship, got engaged, broken up, started dating again, got engaged...again, were married, started our careers, changed career paths, bought a home and had a baby. We are so lucky that things have been  busy, but happy and very simple for the most part. I look back to the people we were when we first met and  we are completely different people now. But I am still so in love with him. He makes my heart skip a beat and gives me butterflies at the most unexpected times just as he did ten years ago. He makes me feel sexy, even though I weigh 50 pounds more than I did when we started dating. He makes me feel even MORE sexy now, with my saggier breasts and stretch marks leftover from childbirth. He has supported me and encouraged me through my discovery of paganism and witchcraft. He participates happily (soltice celebrations and driving me to get my triple goddess tattoo) and passes this on to our child (each morning he takes pumpkin to her window, lets her open her shutters and has her say good morning to mother nature). He even made sure we could afford to go to Salem in October this past year. I am so thankful to have him by my side to grow old with. I am already worried about my children growing old (...and I've only had one) and leaving me. The only thing that makes that bearable is knowing my husband will be there with me. I'll still have him. I am so so thankful for him, his love and support and the fabulous daddy he is to our daughter. I couldn't imagine my life without him!

-A