Thankful...

It’s that time of year where we reflect on all that we are thankful for. Although I like to think we do a good job of that no matter the season. 

{photo of a wooden ornament hanging from a branch. On it is written the word health.}

This year we started a thankful tree, where we hang a statement of what we are thankful for each day. Yesterday as we were talking about what we might write, both Brian and I paused a moment and agreed that health would be our chosen word (our tree is small and our space to write is smaller... I am not known for brevity, so we are attempting to limit to one word). 

I’d like to explain a bit about why we paused, because of course we are thankful for health. But in the past three plus years, there have been days we thought we wouldn’t be bringing Wyatt home from the hospital. There were times where we couldn’t go more than two weeks without ending up back in the hospital. There were times where we didn’t know what illness we were attacking. Times where we questioned, times where we cried, and times we were fearful. 

But today? We are thankful for his health. 

We don’t know what tomorrow (or even this afternoon!) will bring for his health, so today we are thankful.