Happy Thanksgiving!

I, like most everyone else, am thankful for so many things in my life. I have a wonderful family. My mother, father, and grandfather in particular have given me so many amazing opportunities, namely the opportunity to go to a university that I truly love. If it weren't for them, I would be struggling to pay myself through school. I really can't express enough how grateful I am for that in particular. I'm also thankful for my brother, a friend who I will never grow apart from. Even though we bicker constantly, I am so grateful for his consistent support and friendship throughout the years I've known him. The rest of my family brings me so much joy every time I get to see them. I cannot imagine life without them and I don't care to.

I'm also so thankful for my friends, new and old. Having old friends is such a blessing. To come home from school after months of not seeing each other and to just pick up where you left off is amazing and beautiful to me. I love getting the opportunities to see them and I've loved seeing them over the past few days on my Thanksgiving break. My new friends at the University of Cincinnati are also so incredible. I'm pretty terrible at meeting new people, and the fact that the people I have met have been just the right people for me is amazing :) I adore them so much. They have made me feel so welcomed and so loved in this completely foreign environment that honestly scared me so much when I arrived (Adam, Rachel, Rachel, Kaitlin - I'm talking to you!) I can't forget talking about my boyfriend, who is one of the best people I have ever met. He is so caring about his friends and the people he is close with and goes out of his way to treat me and his other friends so well. I haven't been with him for very long, but I hope to spend a long, long time with him.

Everything else is such a blessing, as well. The opportunity to cultivate my education at such a wonderful university. The fact that I have a roof over my head now (at my parent's house) and at school. The fact that I have a job. The fact that I am happy with where my life is going and with what I am working for. I have so much to be thankful for and not enough room (or time for that matter) to write it all down. So, keep your blessings in mind this holiday and let the people you care about know that you're thankful for them. They may already know, but it can only spread happiness to tell them.

P.S. Eat so much turkey.