Could it have been nearly 2 years since I blogged?

Some of our best pictures in the last year... It's not surprising that I haven't blogged in almost 2 years. A lot has happened. Our family has been through a lot. There's been bankruptcy, the move from a house I loved, death, disease and I've felt under a cloud. But during this time, friendships have risen, kids continued to grow with leaps and bounds in many ways, there's been new health, and I feel like hope is dragging me out of my valley. God is good and always has been but I've been feeling like a victim. Mike and I saw a movie on Friday and one of the lines from the female lead blew me away. She said, "I want to be the hero of my own story". And when I pondered if that is a Godly thought I say it can be. I have to believe that when God created each one of us he saw us as the hero of our own story - or in other words the leading lady or gent of our own story. Of course He's my hero too, but even more my Father and friend and Creator. I haven't been wallowing, but I've been surviving. And again again I have to choose to thrive. Thrive in the blessings that abound in my story. Cuz gosh darnit they abound plenty. Let perspective come to me again and again. And let us all be the hero of our own daily existence - giving God the glory for letting us live this good life.