300 Days

I was just sitting at my computer looking at the website www.365Grateful.com which I think is really neat and an idea I would like to copy, and then I started looking up information on being grateful and ended up with a lot of blogs on gratitude.   That made me think of this blog.   I haven't written in so long.  I have missed it, but when I come here to write I can't think of anything to write that doesn't end up with me missing Kit and being sad.  So I thought today that although I'm so sad that Kit is not with me anymore I can still be grateful for all the other blessings in my life.  And for sure I'm so grateful that Kit was with us for his 23+ years or 8,724 days.  

It's interesting how a date like January 1st can mean so much.  It's just another day, but it's the start of a new year.  I don't generally make New Years resolutions (mostly because I can't keep them) but I do think each January 1st about what is to come and what has been.  2013 was a horrible year.  Well the last 298 days of it anyways.  I will always miss my beautiful boy but I think that in order to move forward I have to try to find ways to be grateful for what I have instead of being angry/sad at what I have lost.   I am going to try to be more aware of those small blessings and moments of joy in my life.  And maybe through that I can spread more joy to others.

Yesterday, January 1st I went to the new Ripley's Aquarium in Toronto with Robyn and Dave.  It was awesome, but VERY crowded.  Lots of families taking advantage of the holiday to spend time together somewhere warm.  It was memorizing seeing all the fish swimming around.  Big and little and every colour of the rainbow.  We saw this beautiful dragon fish.  What an amazing animal, so intricate and graceful.
 Today we had two visitors.  Lisah our niece came for lunch and we shared some hugs and love.   Dave's oldest brother Bob came over unexpectedly and it is great to catch up and have him spend the night, and also we took the kids out for dinner tonight.  Robyn's last dinner at home with us before she goes back to Old's for school.  

I'm so grateful for family, for the love and support they have given me all my life and especially over the last 300 days.  I'm grateful for all I've learned since then and hopefully through this blog and other ways I will be able to share some of that with others and move forward in a positive way.