This is what it is all about!!!

Families are Forever :)

So today we are spending a beautiful New England snowy day with my mom, dad, brother and my nephews. They are Finally painting my Family Room. I am so excited :) There is nothing that makes me happier though then to have them all here. Listening to the little ones play and giggle, spending time with my mom, these are the happy days! The days that I am reminded what life is all about. Family......they are a gift from God a true blessing and I am so grateful to know they are FOREVER!

Thankful

So I have finally started this. As you know things have been very interesting at our house... We have had many trials in our 21 years but nothing that we couldn't get through. Imad and I have always pulled TOGETHER as a TEAM and conquered! My positive attitude and his stubborness can move a mountain. Imad is diligently working daily to find a new career. That being said he is extremely frustrated and gets down on himself. I give him the best support I know how, problem is I can't fix it! Oh how I wish I could! I know there is a reason for everything and we are given nothing we can't handle. I am not sure if there is good timing for someone to lose their job after 25 years served and no real reason except for the downsize of a company. So at first I got extremely angry and cried a lot! Then I got protective, I felt like my husband had been sucker punched. I felt like we as a family had sacrificed so much for him to be the success he was. I got more angry, all the time away from his children to stay at his office and make sure the business was taken care of!

Then I thought about it and I said, we have been blessed! All the years we sacrificed I was a stay at home mom. It gave me and my children a gift that most families don't have today and our relationship shows it now. It gave us 7 nights a week of family dinners(he always came home to eat!), it supported our home. It helped make him he is the man he is today and made it possible for him to find a NEW career something better than before.

So for now he is home. He is doing an amazing job taking care of everything! He is building a different relationship than before with our children. He takes Jasmine to ALL of her appointments which gives them alone time and Jasmine a lot of driving hours! There is something positive in everything in life even the events that at first we find to be our lowest. I have found the positive in this too. I have an amazing husband and my children an incredible father! He is there with us now which is a gift we have never had and the kids are spending time they deserve with their dad. Hopefully he will not be Mr. Mom for long but while he is I am going to take the time to enjoy my best friend, my husband!