Count Your Blessings

As I was getting ready this afternoon to go to dinner with my friend JoyceAnn and her family this hymn popped into my head. It's one of my very favorites & I find myself humming it quiet often. It tells you to count every single one of your blessings that the Lord has given you. As I've stated before I didn't get to go home for Thanksgiving & this day was a very emotional one for me. As soon as I got off of facetime with my mom I broke down into tears, but as soon as that began to happen my Aunt J called me on facetime. I knew I couldn't let my aunt see me cry so I held it in. I'm so blessed to have a family that loves me & genuinely misses me when I'm not around. When I finally got to JoyceAnn's families house I was feeling way better. Her parents stove had broken so they decided to go to the Nugget hotel & invited me to tag along. I was their adopted child for the afternoon. As I was waiting in line my grandma Maria called me & also my Aunt Cathy. I broke down just listening to their voicemails. & while I was eating at the buffet my cousin Taylor facetimed me since you no longer need wifi to facetime & I got to see my mom's side of the family. I nearly started bawling when I saw my grandma Marie & my brother. I miss everyone so so so much, but I just tried to keep remininding myself that Christmas is right around the corner. Plus I hate crying in public! I feel like everyone stares at me & the second I finally calm myself down someone asks if I'm alright & then I'm back to crying again. I hate being emotional sometimes, but thankfully this past year I've kind of gotten it under control. A crazy thing happened to me after my last blog post & let me just say it was something I didn't expect. My life is so unpredictable sometimes. One day I'll figure it all out, but until that time I'll just take it day by day. I'm so blessed to have the people that I do in my life. I have my amazing family, wonderful friends, & my heavenly Father leading my life. Sometimes I don't understand why things happen, but there is always a reason behind it. This Thanksgiving has definitely showed me what I have to be thankful for & I definitely appreciate every thing in my life. I just got done shopping Target's Black Friday & I am now whipped out. I work at 5:30 A.M. so I need to hit the sack. I love every single one of my followers & readers. Thank you all so much :)
                                 Xoxoxo, Sydney