Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! (At least here in Canada).

Just wanted to share and express my deep gratitude and appreciation for all the people and blessings that I have in my life.

Thankful that I have many many close friends that I can call confidants. I recently read in a newspaper article that because of Instagram, Facebook, and other social media programs that people can lose touch with the deep friendship connection. Over the past number of years the number of confidants people have had have dropped from 3 to 2. I am so lucky that I have more than I can count on my fingers and toes!

Thankful that after five years of having no eyebrows and having to draw them in everyday, that my Aunt Julia in Taipei took me to get them tattooed. It’s a little thing but what a difference it makes to have them again! I am no longer reminded of my horrible ordeal the first thing when I wake up and look in the mirror. It was a little depressing I have to admit. (It’s not permanent – but I will take what I can get!)

Thankful that I was able to go to Taiwan this past summer and see my grandfather, my last living grandparent, before he passed. We had spent a couple of special moments ‎In the hospital while he was still lucid. I was never very close to my maternal grandfather but when he saw me in the hospital he reached out and pulled me in and hugged me which he had never done before. It was a special moment that I will never forget. My maternal grandmother passed suddenly last year. I attended her funeral. My paternal grandfather passed away when I was 15. My paternal grandmother who I was the closest with, I didn’t arrive in time to say my last good-byes while she still had breath although I attended her funeral in the Philippines. For those who know, not being able to be there in her last moments, still pains me today. So what a blessing this trip was.

Thankful that I have all of you as my “special someones”! All whom I carry and keep close in my heart. Does it get better than that??

And, Thankful that my recent extra eye exam (which I wrote back about on WW’s #56) came back and it was normal. For now – just regular monitoring. I am not losing my peripheral vision yet! Phew!

As I quoted before from Audrey Hepburn, I know that I walk with the knowledge that I never walk alone…

Eternally Thankful and Grateful of who I am and who & what I have in my life. There is so much to look forward to!

Summed up here by‎ Charlie Brown:

“The smile on my face doesn’t mean my life is perfect. It means I appreciate what I have and what I have been blessed with.

I choose to be happy.”

THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR BEING MY WARRIORS!

Love, Winnie xo