Quote of the Day

Last Christmas I won a prize from a work raffle, it's what I like to call a "Jesus Calendar", which has a different quote everyday with something that is supposed to inspire me.  Well it's been many days since the beginning of the year and I finally found one that made me actually want to share it with a few other people.

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." -Helen Keller

While sitting in the passenger seat of my car while Tim was driving us home from the pet store, I finally realized that we were now starting a family.  I was now going to be what my mother has always been in my eyes, the woman of the house.  For a couple of months it was hard to factor that my relationship with my family was different.  I even referred to home as my parent's house, it was hard and I missed them.  

But for some reason that drive back home really settled in me that I am where my mother was 25 years ago.  A woman about to be married and start a family.  That Tim and I are much more than partners, we are an actual family ourselves.  And even though the families we grew up with move on and have their own lives, their love and devotion to us will live on in our new family together.

I'm going to end this blog with another quote that I love;

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.  They must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller

Love to all,
Erica