today is a great day!

Sean is on a plane coming home eight days earlier than planned for Christmas! Woooohooooooo! I get eight extra days during Christmastime to spend with my handsome wonderful husband. I am beyong stoked. 'Nuff said!

sunshine in the shade

You know the hardest thing about being apart from Sean for the first few months of our marriage is that Sean is completely surrounded by shady people. He doesn't have anyone who has his best interest at heart out there. He is working his bum off for people that would throw him under the bus at any monent in time. Shady people that blatantly steal personal documents with no explanation and no apology.

My man is such a good man with a good heart who is putting up with this wretched situation in light of the current economy and preserving his professional credibility.

There is light in this darkness, as Sean gets to spend weekends with his grandfather in Oklahoma, but all in all when the middle of the week rolls around and it seems to be countless days until we are together again it becomes increasingly difficult to keep things in perspective.

I love my man and I just wish that the people he was working with were good people with proper priorities and ethics.

...because I have 17 more days until I see my husband and I am trying everything I can to keep smiling.

So really .... although life has been beating me up a bit and testing my strength, faith, and perseverance, I really am still a very lucky girl. Yeah sure, my husband is on the wretched project that has taken him out of town for the first few months of our marriage, but at least I am blessed enough to have found my soulmate, my bestfriend, my better half, my husband. I have a man that has my picture in his car and calls me multiple times a day just to make sure that I don't forget how much he loves me.

Maybe my cable was shut off without notice and my account sold to satellite the night before I had a housesitter for four days, but at least I can afford to have cable.

...and yes, my external hard drive corrupted and I lost half my pictures, but thankfully, I had already uploaded most of them to be printed which means I can at least have prints.

So without question, the property manager of the house Sean and I rent is impossible to work with, irresponsible, rude, and lacks follow-through, but we love this house, we have a roof over our head, and it has a great big yard for our dogs to run in.

So these days, when I feel like the world is just taking blow after blow at me and I can't help but cry (which is pretty much daily) ... these are the things I think about and I smile.

This picture of Sean and his grandfather from our wedding...

My wonderful team of employees that decorated my office for my return from mine and Sean's mini-moon...

...the fact that a week after my wedding I had 12th row center seats to see Jason Mraz in concert and he performed mine and Sean's song from our first dance...

... the fact that Sean and I probably spent 15 minutes trying to get Teagan to stand on a scale so we would know how much our dogs weigh...

So in the spirit of our recent Thanksgiving, I am thankful for everyday of this life ... even these recent days that just haven't been going as planned. I'm blessed. I have an amazing family, fabulous friends and an exquisite man as my husband ... for these things I am thankful and I promise to smile.