With one week til thanksgiving I think it is a good time to talk about how thankful I am for my wonderful, difficult, crazy, unpredictable life! I think I can pretty much safely say that we will probably be in our new home by the first week of December! It has been over a year since we began to tear down the little house on this peice of property and we began the building of our home. At that time Mike had not found a job yet and he was so looking forward to helping his Dad build. Well, about a month later he landed a job which was good news but bad news. That meant that Dad(82 years old) would pretty much be building our house himself with some help here and there. It has been a very long journey with lots and lots of ups and downs. Tears of sadness here and there and tears of joy too. There have been many sacrafices made to get to where we are today.
How blessed we are to be surrounded by such hard working dedicated men in our family. Building homes is what Dad knows best. It is his life's work to build and in this way he expresses who he is. Lucky for us we will benefit from his love, his talent and his hard work. I will be so happy the day that my kids really really get how blessed they are to be part of this family. I think we all often take these things for granted. We are not wealthy people, not by a long shot. We have all struggled to have just the bare minimum at times. To eat, to clothe our children, to go to school, to take a vacation or to make it to an important family event. We haven't been able to do everything we would have liked to have done. But, we are together, we have made it through some very tough times and we have learned so much along the way.
Most of all we have the Gospel in our lives and we have eachother. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is really the glue that keeps us together and going strong. Without it I think so many of us would have given up so many years and so many trials ago. But with our Faith and with hard work, we have all made it through.
For most of us life usually turns out to be so very different than we think it will be, but for me it is better than I ever dreamed. Hard times and all! So, today I am thankful to the Nelson Family for being who they are, as imperfect as we all are....we are so very blessed!
How blessed we are to be surrounded by such hard working dedicated men in our family. Building homes is what Dad knows best. It is his life's work to build and in this way he expresses who he is. Lucky for us we will benefit from his love, his talent and his hard work. I will be so happy the day that my kids really really get how blessed they are to be part of this family. I think we all often take these things for granted. We are not wealthy people, not by a long shot. We have all struggled to have just the bare minimum at times. To eat, to clothe our children, to go to school, to take a vacation or to make it to an important family event. We haven't been able to do everything we would have liked to have done. But, we are together, we have made it through some very tough times and we have learned so much along the way.
Most of all we have the Gospel in our lives and we have eachother. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is really the glue that keeps us together and going strong. Without it I think so many of us would have given up so many years and so many trials ago. But with our Faith and with hard work, we have all made it through.
For most of us life usually turns out to be so very different than we think it will be, but for me it is better than I ever dreamed. Hard times and all! So, today I am thankful to the Nelson Family for being who they are, as imperfect as we all are....we are so very blessed!
