What I am thankful for.

   It is Thanksgiving evening and I finished driving a little over an hour ago. I have been listening to pod-casts and radio programs all day and many of them listed a litany of things that they were thankful for. I wanted to take just a few minutes to let everyone know what I am thankful for tonight.

I am thankful for my beautiful, wonderful children. All of them are adults now and I am now a proud grandpa of 4!

I am thankful for my job, it is sometimes a huge pain in the ass, but it pays well and allows me to keep the bills payed.

I am thankful for the men and women who have fought and are now fighting to keep the greatest nation in the world free. Everyone who calls themselves an American owes more than can ever be repaid to these brave people.

I am thankful to live in this country, where we have the ability to live as we please and have opportunities that exist no where else.

I am most thankful however that my beautiful wife chose me to be her husband and has stuck with me through thick and thin. Everyone has listened a million times to the wedding vows, “To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better and for worse, for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish till death do us part.” Let me tell you that when Susan said these things she meant them.

I wish I could say that I am a perfect person, however I cannot. I am not going to publicly display all of my failings, as this is not what this post is about. However suffice it to say that my wife has seen a while lot more of the worse, the poorer, and the sickness than she has of the good sides of the equation.

The love of my life has been there for me in terrible struggles. She has been the reason that I get up and get going every morning and the last thought that I think every night.

If everything that I now have was taken from me I know that I would be ok, and could start from scratch with nothing as long as I still had my sweetheart and soul mate beside me .

I love you Susan.