I saw this on facebook. It was getting a lot of ‘likes’ and actually, I liked it too. Very few would disagree with the saying. It says:

“Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the one’s who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.”
~Unknown

Source: Facebook - Lessons Learned in Life

We all certainly have friends who are like family. Sometimes, they even seem more like family. They are so much like us that it’s a wonder we are not attached physically.

But you know what, the older I get the more I realize that there are great friends, but there is also family and family always trumps friends.

The people in you life who will want you in theirs, the ones who accept you for who you are and the ones who would do anything to see you smile and love you no matter what…

They are your friends when they do all that for you for a time. We all move on in life and very few of our friends will be there from beginning to the end. Enjoy the phase of your life with them. You will treasure them forever.

Now your blood, your family, they have no choice but to do all that. Your family had no choice whether they want you in their life or not, but they accept you for who you are and love you no matter what anyway. They would do anything for you including make you smile, make you cry, and make you so frustrated you wonder what you’re doing with these people.

Sometimes you may wonder how you even became part of ‘that’ bunch. They are so nothing like you. Your friends are more like you.

But the thing is, your friends only reflect how you are on the outside. They are like mirrors. That’s why you are so much alike.

Family is what makes you tick inside. Family is all that gory, unsightly stuff inside you that somehow makes you work the way you do. Family is what makes you able to see, to feel, to breath, to think, to move.

Family is what makes you who you are inside so that you can look good outside.

So maybe next time you think your friends are your ‘real’ family, think again. No matter how awful or how diseased your family, it’s what’s inside you and when you don’t take care of what’s inside you, nothing you do outside will ever work right.

Tick, tock…
 
 

First day back at work and I have been shivering since I got here! My office is hella cold! Why does the air conditioning keep coming on instead of the heater? Maybe our system is still on vacation. Lucky bugger!

At least the sun is out and it’s pretty outside, but it’s deceiving it is barely in the 30′s out there. At this rate, I may have to bring a blanket to keep in my office.

Hope you’re having a good day and a great start to the New Year

Someone made herself a rabbit hat….  complete with tails

… then she made a plain beanie for her momma

Each year brings about changes; some welcomed, some not so much. Whatever the New Year holds in store for us, I wish you all the very best. Here’s to another year of promise, another year of gratefulness and living life to the fullest. HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!