Count your blessings!

I started out my weekend waking up Saturday morning popping my neck out of place. If any of you know me very well u know that I fight with my neck pain quite a bit. So I have laid around all weekend off and on trying to get it better before vacation. So today I broke down and went to the chiropractor! I think he is a life saver! I can already tell a difference so hopefully by the time we leave Sat it will be great.
Okay back to my reason for this blog..........I have been whining around feeling sorry for myself until this afternoon. When u are waiting for an apt alot of time you will sit and talk to others that are waiting. So I have been sitting there for over an hour waiting and this elderly main walks in and sits down. He casually gets out a honeybun and starts to eat it. You can tell he is savoring every bit..........I love those things and was a little jealous :) We look at each smile and make small talk..........a nurse walks in that knows him. I am sitting beside and I hear him say "Well did you hear about me?" She responds" No I haven't" He says very casually "I am dying and I am ready to go today if the good lord would take me!" Basically the doctors told him nothing else to do for him and he is "okay" with that now. My heart just about stopped.

I instantly felt silly for all the complaining I have been doing all week. The nurse tried to make it better but he said several times " No I am dying and this is just how it is!" Can imagine how you would feel if that was you! I sat there and thought long and hard about life because of course I had several hours to think about it while waiting on docs. I thought no wonder he was enjoying his honeybun, he smiled and spoke to everyone like he didnt have a care in the world. He told me he had been blessed in his life and he had nothing to complain about! WOW what an outlook!

I am going to try really hard not to let petty shit bother me like I have in the past. It would be soo nice if everyone had his attitude. Just think of all the things that we let bother us when really will it matter 10 years from now! NO it will not 99% of it won't matter! What will matter was what kind of person, mother, sister, aunt, wife and friend I was! Life is just simply too short to get worked up over silly things. You just never know when some stranger will sit by u and make you thankful for EVERY BLESSING you have in your life.

I am very blessed to be a wife to my best friend, a mother to 3 wonderful kiddos, a sister to a wild brother, an aunt to 6 of the greatest neices and nephews, a caregiver to 57 residents and a loyal friend to many! I hope everyone that knows me has something positive to know about me. What I found in that stranger today was a nice smile and a thankful attitude when he could have just been mad at the world! So tonight I am counting my blessings!

As I am leaving Cape today I meet that little guy as he passes me and he just waves and smiles real big! WOW

Well going to watch a movie with my boys! Remember to count your blessings tonight too!!!!!!