Life is good...

This weekend, Tom and I really enjoyed getting out of the house on these glorious first days of November. Friday night we decided to hit up a local restaurant, Fitgers Brewhouse, for some homemade delicious root beer.  We had a half hour to forty five minute wait before we would be able to receive our table, so we decided to walk around the building and visit some of their unique locally owned stores.  Some of the stores that we visited that night were Trail Fitgers (A outdoors store), The Bookstore at Fitgers (sold many unique games and books), Brewhouse Beer Store (A place where you can purchase their homemade beer, root beer, and buy some souvenir), Fitgers Brewery Museum (see the beer distillers and the process they go through to make it), and Jakes Lake Place (Life is Good Store). 

The one that brought deliberation to write this posting was the Life is Good Store. Walking around the store and looking at all their merchandise made me think about this month of November. You may ask “why”? This month we celebrate Thanksgiving and all the things we are thankful for in our life. 

Many things pass us by in the midst of our crazy lifestyles and we take many things for granted. Just looking over my past years, Yeah, I’ve made mistakes throughout my life, but I feel if it wasn't for those mistakes I would not be were I am today. With those mistakes, I faced dilemmas, taken the wrong paths, disapproved of my parents guidelines, caused mischief, but in the end have become a better person because of my parents and the love they had for me to strive. 

Think of all the things that we are so lucky to encounter in our lifestyles, but yet often times people forget to count their blessings and choose to find fault in their mind and soul.  Life is good in many ways, and I have so much to be thankful for this season. I want to mention that the small things in life, like receiving a kiss on the forehead after a rough day, getting woke up with a text saying "I love you, have a great day, babe", and having sweet surprises, like the good old snail mail from my mom, makes you look at those small things and smile. After our dining out we decided to put in the Disney movie Enchanted (one out of many of our favorites), make some homemade popcorn off the stove, and cuddle in for the night, and enjoy each others company. This is just another example of how small things, like a outing, turns into an immeasurable smile on my face. I hope with reading this that you have thought of those things in your life that are small, but without them life would be different and somewhat boring. I leave you with a quote that has put this post in a pocket size definition. 

 Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever...-- Isak Dinese

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAR

HOPE YOU HAVE A SPECTACULAR DAY!