On Saturdays, the last day of the work week for us, I exchanged the usual "Happy Saturday" good morning greetings with my co-workers. Sometimes I even catch some of the ladies doing a "Happy Saturday" dance. :-) It's become part of our Saturday morning ritual, a sort of celebration of the coming weekend, time to relax and be with family. As much as I enjoy the experience of working, what I have learned from it, and how much I have grown through it, my favorite thing is to be at home with all my boys, at the beach with my very best friends, and when I can make it back to the states, hanging out with my extended family too. I know I have said it before, but the older I get, the more important spending time with my family becomes. Work is work and will always be there, and as close as we may become with our friends or attempt to immerse ourselves in the cultures and worlds of others while living or working with them, no one is there for you like family.
No one understands and accepts you just as you are like family. And today, I am so thankful for my fiance, my boys, my parents, my brothers, my best friend (who has become family to me), and my extended relatives and soon to be relatives back in Alabama and Oregon. I know they will be and are always there for me, no matter what storms life brings because they have proved it over and over again. More than once in my life, I have discovered that someone I believed to be a close friend and someone who I thought would be there for me no matter what because they understood me has chosen to pull away when things got difficult or has misunderstood me and instead of coming to me to resolve it has chosen a different path, and it has altered our friendship forever. These kinds of friends or acquaintances come and go and often serve an important purpose, providing us with life lessons we might otherwise have never had. And family, at least the one I am lucky enough to have, well, they are right there, waiting for you to come back from exploring life elsewhere or to hold you up you when you cannot support yourself. I hope and pray that all of you have someone (whether it be blood relatives or not) that you can call family because life is so much richer and sweeter when you have "family" to share it with. Happy Saturday! Enjoy your weekend.
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You still there? Missing your posts. Praying for your family.
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