What a difference a year makes.

It's been too long since my last post. Over a year! So many things have happened and so many ideas I've had swimming in my head haven't materialized just yet...but they're on my mental list. I'll get to the happenings and goings on of the past year plus later. What I want to jot down before my inspiration leaves me is how grateful I am at this very moment for my children, my family, my friends....MY LIFE!

I've been collecting links to various blogs and I thoroughly enjoy reading them. They've been a source of creative inspiration, places to read a funny anecdote, places to read a story of an other's struggles that serve me as inspiration to appreciate them and life in general. Life is beautiful. Life is hard. Life tugs at my heartstrings whenever I think of my children when they are away from me. Life is kind. Life is cruel. Life is heavy. Life is a bounty of exhilaration. No matter the point in time that I find myself, each experience has enriched me. And I am just beginning to feel and appreciate the purpose of loss. I've been blessed with wonderful people all around me and I am humbled. I am happy for my bruises, scabs, scars, and bumps. Whether they be physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual; they remind me that I am learning, growing...living.

Thank you my children. Thank you my family. Thank you my friends. Thank you God. I love my life.