Today when i opened up facebook i had this msg left to me from Lucy.
Today as I'm sitting here just thinking to myself. I realized how truly blessed I am with such an amazing Mom and Dad. I love you guys so much and I know sometimes I can be a brat, but I want you guys to know how much I really appreciate every thing you've done for me. Not a lot of kids parents have sacrificed their time and money to let them achieve great things. I'm proud of who I am today. I'm ...proud of who my family is. Words cannot describe how much I appreciate and love you. And as for my awesome siblings. Not many kids were blessed with an awesome childhood. You guys made some unforgettable memories. Like playing hide and go seek in the dark every time mom and dad left or making those ridiculous powell movies. I love you guys and this Thanksgiving I am so grateful for all of you and your amazing support we have for each other. Families are forever♥
Wow! What can you say to that? Really! It made me sit back and think about my family and the blessings we have. We have so much to be thankful for that its hard to know where to start. I have the best husband anyone can possibly have. We have been married for almost 26 years and for those of you that know our history you know how much the odds were against us when we met and married. I lived over the pond in England, he lived here in Utah. I had two little boys i was fighting to get permission to bring out of England. His parents didnt want him to marry someone with a history (there words not mine). So many things were against us. But one thing that was always solid and stayed the same. Our love for each other. There is no words for the love and closeness we have for each other. I know other people have not welcomed that, lol. Who would have loved nothing more then for us to have separated and gone our difference way over the years but its funny because everytime someone or something has throw us a hard time for whatever reason, its always made us closer. Nothing anyone can do or say could ever come beween us. That i know without a fact. So that aside, i have a wonderful hubby and best friend who i couldnt be closer too. We were blessed with six wonderful kids who have turned out to be freaking amazing adults. Again others may not like the way we sometimes rasied them or the choices we let them make in there lifes. But there freaking amazing and anyone thats ever met them knows that. I think the fact we didnt force things down them has helped them become the people they are. Cory told me just last month when he came to the doctors office i worked out, that he was really grateful that dad and i hadnt forced the church on him. He said hes seen what it does to his friends and that hes always been grateful that we let him choose if he wanted to go or not. He said now that hes 18 and does attend church and does want to do a mission that he knows hes doing it for him and not for us. He said he knows hes there for the right reason. That made me feel so good. I want all my kids to always be where they are because its what they choose and what is right for them. We have been blessed in the past few years with daughter in laws, boyfriends in law and also Corys girlfriend and of course our wonderful grandbabies. I am so proud that all my kids have welcomed each new member with open arms and have loved them with no question. How they are treating them is so much what i wanted so many years ago and im so grateful my kids are the people they are and we have rasied them to accept people from all different places and to just love them. Im glad my daughters dont get together and gossip and pull down there sister in laws. I cant tell you how happy it makes me that they love them like the sisters they are. I hope we can always be the in laws that we wanted. We sure do try and we also accept all new members into our family without question. Who are we to question and judge. It is our kids choices and we have rasied them well enough to trust there choices. None of us are perfect and we do make mistakes but i hope also that we can always be man enough (or women enough) to accept when weve wrong and say weve sorry. It really does clear up and prevent problems. So looking at all we have its so hard not to be totally totally thankful this thanksgiving week for our wonderful family. I hope we can always keep this closeness and this bond we have with each other. Some of us may live far away but we always are so happy to see each other when we can. I hope we can always support each other without judgement and always love each other though our mistakes. We dont know how we hit the jackpot and got it all so right when everyone around us was so sure what we had was wrong. But i really do believe that although others thought it was wrong that our lord knew it was right and that he has always been there to help us thought the trials brought on around us. I really couldnt have a better hubby, kids and grandkids. Somewhere somehow we must be doing something right to be so blessed with so much. Thank you guys for being our kids and thank you Lucy for the wonderful msg. You all made being parents as easy as it can be. We are so proud of you and love you very much.
Wow! What can you say to that? Really! It made me sit back and think about my family and the blessings we have. We have so much to be thankful for that its hard to know where to start. I have the best husband anyone can possibly have. We have been married for almost 26 years and for those of you that know our history you know how much the odds were against us when we met and married. I lived over the pond in England, he lived here in Utah. I had two little boys i was fighting to get permission to bring out of England. His parents didnt want him to marry someone with a history (there words not mine). So many things were against us. But one thing that was always solid and stayed the same. Our love for each other. There is no words for the love and closeness we have for each other. I know other people have not welcomed that, lol. Who would have loved nothing more then for us to have separated and gone our difference way over the years but its funny because everytime someone or something has throw us a hard time for whatever reason, its always made us closer. Nothing anyone can do or say could ever come beween us. That i know without a fact. So that aside, i have a wonderful hubby and best friend who i couldnt be closer too. We were blessed with six wonderful kids who have turned out to be freaking amazing adults. Again others may not like the way we sometimes rasied them or the choices we let them make in there lifes. But there freaking amazing and anyone thats ever met them knows that. I think the fact we didnt force things down them has helped them become the people they are. Cory told me just last month when he came to the doctors office i worked out, that he was really grateful that dad and i hadnt forced the church on him. He said hes seen what it does to his friends and that hes always been grateful that we let him choose if he wanted to go or not. He said now that hes 18 and does attend church and does want to do a mission that he knows hes doing it for him and not for us. He said he knows hes there for the right reason. That made me feel so good. I want all my kids to always be where they are because its what they choose and what is right for them. We have been blessed in the past few years with daughter in laws, boyfriends in law and also Corys girlfriend and of course our wonderful grandbabies. I am so proud that all my kids have welcomed each new member with open arms and have loved them with no question. How they are treating them is so much what i wanted so many years ago and im so grateful my kids are the people they are and we have rasied them to accept people from all different places and to just love them. Im glad my daughters dont get together and gossip and pull down there sister in laws. I cant tell you how happy it makes me that they love them like the sisters they are. I hope we can always be the in laws that we wanted. We sure do try and we also accept all new members into our family without question. Who are we to question and judge. It is our kids choices and we have rasied them well enough to trust there choices. None of us are perfect and we do make mistakes but i hope also that we can always be man enough (or women enough) to accept when weve wrong and say weve sorry. It really does clear up and prevent problems. So looking at all we have its so hard not to be totally totally thankful this thanksgiving week for our wonderful family. I hope we can always keep this closeness and this bond we have with each other. Some of us may live far away but we always are so happy to see each other when we can. I hope we can always support each other without judgement and always love each other though our mistakes. We dont know how we hit the jackpot and got it all so right when everyone around us was so sure what we had was wrong. But i really do believe that although others thought it was wrong that our lord knew it was right and that he has always been there to help us thought the trials brought on around us. I really couldnt have a better hubby, kids and grandkids. Somewhere somehow we must be doing something right to be so blessed with so much. Thank you guys for being our kids and thank you Lucy for the wonderful msg. You all made being parents as easy as it can be. We are so proud of you and love you very much.
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