CAUTION: This is mindless drivel typed out at 4 in the morning. But I assure you, no alcoholic beverages were consumed in the making.

I don’t know why. But my body is filled with a huge amount of emotion right now.
Everyone who knows me, can tell you I am not an emotional person.

“Yeah, yeah, Kalurah? I know her. I heard they made her motherboard in Japan. She’s even got moving parts, quite realistic looking.”

Moving on.
I can count on both of my hands how many times I have broken down in public. And I could do so, even if I only had three fingers on each one.

Okay, they get it. You’re not an emotional woman. Now please get on with your point, already.

So, here is my point, already.
All of a sudden, I have been struck with a sense of overwhelming contemplation. My head begins stirring and my heart soon follows. I have been thinking of all the wonderful things in my life that I feel thankful for.

Things that, for the life of me, I can’t figure out why I have been blessed with.

I can start with my husband. I know I cause this wonderful man grief beyond what is humanly capable of foregoing. But he does. Fore go. Every. day. of. his. life.
He puts up with the sleeping in, in the morning, the weeks worth of dirty laundry piling up, which is my forte, the incessant whining regarding whatever particular insignificant thing I have currently chosen to unhealthily dwell upon, at the moment.
Yet, he fore goes. And I love him achingly for it.

Then there’s my family. My family and my husband’s family. Because how else on this earth did you think such a glorious man could exist. God only knows, how much I’ve put my own family through, growing up. Not to mention, the way in which I chose to get married. (but, we’ll delve into that never! at a later time.)
And my in-laws have put up with some stuff too. And by “stuff”, I mean me. I kept their dear boy away from them for the early part of our marriage. Because I was selfish. Because, well, you know, it’s all about me, like I said.
But now, I’ve grown to love and cherish them, just as I love my own family. They have helped Jason and I so much when we have had trouble. And that is the type of family I am so familiar with.

I am also thankful for my health. This may be coming to mind, sense I am currently nursing two children who have strep throat, one of which, has just woken up with a 103 temp. Why in the world else, so you think I’m up at this insane hour?
Now……. where was I ? Oh, yes, health. pffffffffffff!
As I look at my family, I see a father who suffers from Migraines, a brother with an immune deficiency and colon disease, a sister and son with on-going asthma, a mother with joint disease , a mother-in-law with Diabetes, father-in-law with history of heart attack and a sister-in-law with MS.
And the sad thing is, I know I am most likely leaving some things out because that’s how unhealthy the people around me are.
I feel, at times, that there’s no reason these wonderful people should have such broken down bodies and I can be standing here, as healthy as can be.
Why am I so special?

Or maybe,
I am the healthy one so that I can take care of the ones I love.
After all, that is the definition of Mother, which happens to be another thing I am thankful for.

All of these things, on top of countless others, are the reasons I am thankful.

What are you thankful for?