Soooo....I'm a little late of my Thanksgiving post. Last year I was really good about sharing a weeks worth of "I'm thankful for..." posts, but this year I just didn't have the drive. As a matter of fact, I caught myself been a total downer instead of focusing on the positives. While others were doing daily Facebook posts to share all that they were thankful for, I caught myself driving home from work in the dark making a mental list of all of the things I hate about daylight savings! Talk about Bah-humbug!
Thanksgiving came and went. It was a strange weekend full of up and down moments. We had the same Thanksgiving plans as we did last year, so every once in a while I would have these total deja vu moments...deja vu minus our girl. At the same time, we kept so busy going from family to family that I don't think that I had much time to dwell on how much it hurt not having Charlotte there.
In reality it was a good weekend. We ate good food (too much), spent some much needed time with family, celebrated a Husker football win and had lots of good laughs. While it's all too easy to feel angry, cheated and broken in this season of our lives, it's weekends like this that remind Matt and I that we have so much to be thankful for. Life doesn't always go as planned...we have learned that in the harshest of ways this past year...but we are surrounded by so much love and hope and endless memories from the 382 days that we were blessed with Charlotte's presence.
For that I am thankful.
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