Last year was hard - yet I am Thankful for it

Thanksgiving, a time to reflect on what you are thankful for the year past. I got to tell you that although it was one of the hardest years in recent memory and yet I am Thankful for it.

Going back a year - Our T.V show had now been airing for about a month and things were going great. Fans would approach us and talk about the show and how much they loved it. Our work life was doing great, family was great, health was great - hey nothing to complain about here! but then things just got really tough.

Although I am not going to go into too much detail here (as we are writing a memoir down the road) I will say that it was a year wasted on waiting. We waited and put a lot of opportunities on hold as we were 100% certain that our beloved TV show would get subsequent season. For reasons still unknown to us the network took forever to make the call to our production company and when they did we knew we were screwed - we would now face months of near financial catastrophe.

It was literally one day after finding out that the TV show would not be renewed that our daughter did not show up for work, this was uncharacteristic of her and in my gut I knew to call the emergency dept. the emergency nurse answered the phone and I frantically asked if they had our daughter there, her response was "Well, this is a very difficult call for us to make." I nearly died - she confirmed that our daughter was in fact there and had flipped her car.  Turns out she flipped her car 2 times and landed upside down into a frozen pond. We rushed to the emergency dept. and found her strapped on a stretcher. I kissed her forehead and she cried saying she was sorry about the car. Bless her heart....She walked away with a tiny scratch, what a miracle.

Shortly after that it would be back to the same emergency department but this time with our son - who got a nasty spider bite and had a red line creeping up his arm which if left untreated could turn into potential fatal blood poisoning.

I could go on but I think I am painting a pretty clear picture about how this past year went down - and it continued to go down, way down.......I could bitch I could complain and I could point fingers but a wise women told us once "Take the higher road!" hard to do but will lead by her example.

But here I sit early Saturday morning coffee in hand and the sun shining through the window and seeing the most beautiful color display mother nature has provided us all with and I am thankful for it all. Both of our children are healthy, safe and happy. Tomorrow I welcome into my home my wonderful parents where my husband will put on an amazing meal for us all. We have some truly amazing fans who reach out to us lovingly on a daily basis from around the world - yes our little TV show has aired worldwide and we couldn't be happier about that. (you'd think that going worldwide and having it be successful worldwide would warrant subsequent seasons right? apparently not)

So although it was the year of "H E double hockey sticks" (hell). I am happy, healthy and ready for all the new adventures life has to offer.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all.  Many thanks for reading.

What are you Thankful for?