Happy New Year.... Blessings Beyond Measure!

WOW!!!  Another year!  My life has been so blessed... I am afraid to blink!  2013 has been filled with much happiness, many surprises, and many sorrows.  Life is full of mountains and valleys.  Of course I like the valleys a lot more than I do the mountains... but that's life right.  The beginning of the year was one of my hardest few months.... Something that I am not quite ready to talk about.  My grandmother whom I adore passed away at the ripe age of 93, and my Dad was diagnosed with cancer.  Dad has been through the run of the mill!!!  I can honestly say that he is one of my biggest heroes!  I cannot believe what he has been through and has handled it like a champ.  I truly look up to him for being such a trooper.  My parents mean the world to me and to see them go through one of the most challenging things that life has to offer weighs heavy on my heart.  The blessings that come from such a travesty are that it has brought our family closer together.  We have been able to put differences aside, because in the whole scheme of things our little differences are very petty.  The other blessing is that my dad seems to be doing okay.... He is still here with us and doing everything that the doctors are telling him to do.   John Wayne hasn't got anything on him.... or my mom for that matter.  She is a force to be reckon with.    She has no idea how much I look up to her.  Anyway, I pray for them daily and hope that 2014 is a much better year for them.
For me personally... I couldn't be more blessed.  In fact sometimes I feel guilty... or that I am not worthy.  Rob and these three little precious girls that call me mom are the center of my universe!  The moment I married Rob and had Charley... my life was forever changed!  I am so THANKFUL.... Being a MOM is the greatest reward that this life has to offer... and I have been blessed with 3 beautiful healthy daughters that I am sooooo proud of!   Because this year has been a milestone year for me.... yeah... I turned 30 wink wink... I will look at the clock and think to my self... Its this minute (right now).... this minute that counts.  I will never get this minute back... MAKE IT COUNT.  Its hard to make every minute count, but I am going to try my hardest to just be a better mom, wife, and daughter.  I don't want to waste a moment that this precious life has to offer.... I think that I have said it before, but the past is history, the future is a mystery, and today is a GIFT that is why they call it the PRESENT.  I pray that I can soak it all in, because if we are healthy... alive... and are surrounded by the people we love and that love us.... What more could we ask for?  I LOVE MY FAMILY!  Happy New Year!!!