grateful

Today I feel grateful.

I am overwhelmed by my feelings of gratitude for every aspect of my life. All of the good, and even the not-so-good, is a blessing in my life. I have been more abundantly blessed than I could ever possibly deserve.

The Gospel is my anchor, and it is where I find my strength, my joy, my peace, and my direction.

I have an amazing family that I could not live without. They've made me who I am.

I can truthfully say that I have fantastic in-laws that I look forward to seeing, which seems quite remarkable.

I really like my job, and even though I'll never appreciate getting up at 5:00 in the morning, I still really enjoy what I do once I get there.

I have somehow managed to aquire the best friends in the whole wide world. If we were in 5th grade and I tried to buy a friendship necklace for us to share, instead of having one side that says "BE FRI" and one side that says "ST ENDS," I'd have to break it into so many pieces that everyone would get a mere fraction of a letter. Thanks to all of you for being my best friends.

Rhett is the love of my life, and the best husband I could ever dream of. What's more, not only do I love him, but I genuinely like him. He is my perfect match, and I feel like I've won the man-lottery to have found him in this world. And then I'm reminded that I didn't find him - my grandma found him for me, and I literally thank the Lord for her for setting us up on the blind date that changed my life. Rhett is my knight in shining armor. He treats my like gold and he makes me laugh. He opens doors for me, and he cooks me pasta-roni when I've had a long day. He lets me put my freezing toes on him at night when we go to bed, and he plugs my phone into the charger when I fall asleep. He calls me from work just to say hi. Sometimes I'm hard to live with, and he just keeps on loving me.

And so, today I feel grateful.