Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

As today is Thanksgiving, I would like to take the time to do two things. The first thing is I would like to is wish everyone a very, very happy Thanksgiving day. I hope today brings you all happiness and joy as you spend today being thankful for all the many blessings you have been given this year.

I also want to take some time to share a few of the thinks that I am thankful for this year. (Please note: The following list is in no particular order.)

1. I am thankful for a God that never turns His back on me and is always there when I need Him. This year has been a really tough year with many medical issues for both me and those close to me. Although no one seems to have the answers to cure some of these issues, I am grateful to God for being here with me through it all and bringing people into my life to support me. I also am grateful that God has kept me safe when things could have ended a lot worse.

2. I am grateful for my best friend Eleanor, EJ. EJ has been God's blessing to me for the last five years and she continues to be there for me at any given moment when I need her advice or just someone to vent to. She is also my Tuesday evening escape as she takes me to church choir rehearsal and then Dairy Queen each week. I am so happy to have EJ in my life. I love you EJ!

3. I am thankful for my family. Sure, we don't always get along or want to be on speaking terms, but we are together and we have some nice family moment. We can support each other when it is needed and can make each other laugh when it needed. When harder times come, we are there for each other and help everyone get through whatever it is.

4. I am grateful for my teachers. This year I have been blessed with amazing teachers both in school and in cyber. I don't know what I would do without these teachers who have been wonderful. They have helped me grow and become better at writing and many other things that I could not even begin to describe. They are so supportive of my work and push me to do better. My teachers are amazing and I am so happy to be part of their classes.

5. I am thankful for the freedoms that we have here in the United States of America. I know that we have many conflicts with some of the things happening within the country but we are still the country of freedoms. This is still something to be proud of.

6. I am very grateful for all my blog readers. Without you, I would have no reason to keep posting blogs for you. I am so happy I have you and I love hearing back from you. And as always, I love hearing from you. I want to know what you are thankful for this year. And please, if you have questions you would like me to answer or are in need of advice please feel free to contact me and I would be so happy to blog about it or respond to you individually. You can contact me at contact.sarah.blogger@gmail.com

7. I am thankful for my amazing boyfriend, Kevin. Tomorrow marks one year since Kevin and I started talking with each other. As he and I determined a few days ago, we have Target and their RedCards to thank for the relationship he and I have today. Working together on Black Friday last year, my massive amount of RedCards caused Kevin to beg me for my "secret." Although it took a few more weeks for us to start daily conversation and a few months of friendship to have a relationship, I would not have it any other way. Kevin is the very best thing that has ever been given to me and we have the best relationship I could ever ask for. It isn't a Hallmark, picture perfect relationship but it is perfect for me. Kevin has done more for me in the last year than I could ever begin to list. I love him so much and I wouldn't trade him for the world.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!!

Time For fun...

Sometimes in relationships, you just have to have fun so...

In fear of further embarrassing myself and my boyfriend, Kevin, I'm going to share this video with you. It was actually kinda fun and it was nice to spend this time with him. Although I do not care for the song "Let It Go", I did find it fun to watch him dance to it as Elsa and then join him as Ana as we danced together.

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A Family Gal (Be an Ashley)

I was recently re-reading a favorite book of mine titled Remember by Karen Kingsbury and came to an interesting realization. 

Many people know that now days, a supportive family and freedom from past choices in order to live a happy life. The issue becomes that families are not always supportive of each other and past decisions can end up more like a jail cell than freedom. In the novel Remember by Karen Kingsbury, Ashley Baxter has the supportive family that she needs but not the freedom from her past. The middle child of five, Ashley is supported by her family and she supports them. Her issue is that she had a traumatic experience when she visited Paris which resulted in her son Cole. Ashley Baxter is a family person who enjoys caring for her family and painting, but she cannot move beyond her past even though she wants too.

Ashley loves doing thing for her family; from playing with her son and hanging out with her friend Landon to family dinners every week. She does what she can to help her parents get what they need, especially when her mom is diagnosed with cancer. If Ashley isn’t with her parents, she is playing with her son, working with Alzheimer patients, or talking with her high school sweetheart, Landon Blake. When Ashley is with her son, although she partly views him as an accident, Ashley loves watching Cole play and painting some of the things that he does. Landon makes Ashley feel things that she never expected to feel, especially after her trip to Paris. If it wasn’t for her coming back from Paris pregnant, Ashley knows that she would most likely be willing to have a relationship with Landon. Everything that Ashley enjoys, she does her best to capture the moment in her paintings.

The paintings that Ashley creates are her way of showing her passions. She paints everything that she can capture. As a way of venting, Ashley uses her artistic abilities to find meaning in life and express her love for family and art. The things that Ashley painted after she came back from Paris forced Ashley to realize that there was more to life than her past. Those things being her son and Landon, her family and the Alzheimer patients that Ashley spends all her time with. Ashley has so much going for her but she cannot see it because she is constantly thinking about her past.

When Ashley finished high school, she went to Paris to try to become a well-known painter. While she was there, Ashley fell in love with a famous French painter. As their relationship progressed, Ashley learned that, not only had he gotten her pregnant, he was married and would for the same kind of relationship with anyone that was willing to. That experience left Ashley unwilling to form a relationship and resenting her son. It was not until Landon and Ashley realize that they desperately love each other that Ashley sees the importance of her son’s life and that not all men are the same.

A family gal and, even though she had been trapped in her past, willing to move beyond, Ashley Baxter is a character who shows the importance of family and working through the past to find freedom. Throughout Remember Ashley changes but she also follows her heart. She takes life lessons for what they are and uses them to make the best she can of her life.

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Drifting Away

Life’s circumstances has a way of pulling people closer to others but other times it has a way of pulling them apart. Relationships have three pillars, connection, support and honesty, and when one or more of these pillars are removed the whole relationship falls apart. When the circumstances of life and the relationship pillars conflict, at least one pillar is broken and the relationship drifts apart. Gregor Samsa, in Book One of Metamorphosis by Frankz Kafka, and his family allowed negative circumstances to pull them apart by removing the aspect of support. Book One is well worth the read especially for someone who feels like they are drifting away from others or need a reason to keep their relationship intact. 

Waking up one morning, Gregor Samsa is startled to find that he has turned into a bug. In his bed, “he lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections” (Kafka). Horrified with his new appearance, Gregor tries to go back to sleep thinking about his life as he does. He realizes how his boring his life has become. He notes that “Doing business like this takes much more effort than doing [his] own business at home” (Kafka). Upset, Gregor realizes that he has been spending more time with his job than he has with his family, something that may people do when they chase only their own dreams. 

Gregor reminds himself that this is not how his life should be, that he should be there for his family more than he is his job. Finally, Gregor decides to come out of his room to see those who were waiting for him. Seeing Gregor’s now bug-like appearance, his mother passes out, the chief clerk runs from the apartment and his dad chases him back into his bedroom. Gregor knows at this point that he will never be able to make up for all the lost time with his family. This makes him very sad because he knows now that he realized the importance of family too late. 
  
Relationships are important for every person to have. Having many relationships can lead to stressful gatherings because everyone is constantly meeting with people to keep those relationships alive. When they cannot keep up with meeting all their friends, that person realizes that they have drifted from those who mean most to them. Fewer relationship, like Gregor had, can be stressful though too. As Gregor learned, all it takes is for those closest to you to learn your biggest secret and everything can be torn apart. Gregor’s family rejected him after he turned into a bug; and, although no one can really become a bug, those who keep major secrets from their closest friends can lose those relationships when the secrets come out. 

So, what can be learned from Book One of Metamorphosis by Frankz Kafka? Relationships need to be everyone’s first priority. Each person in the relationship needs to be sure that the relationship has strong pillars to hold it up. They need to make sure that when the circumstances of life and the relationship pillars conflict the relationship has a strong enough foundation to hold it together without destroying a pillar. That is not to say that pillars will to get damaged, because they will, but they need to be strong enough to survive the storm so they are still standing in the end. Fixing the damage in a relationship is easy compared to rebuilding it. So learn from Gregor, make strong relationships a priority and make it through the storms of life together.