Day 4

I have to be honest... yesterday I had one of those days that makes it very difficult to figure out what to be grateful for.  From the moment I peeled my eyes open after a restless night, struggled to get a crabby boy out of bed without losing my cool, and almost (horrifyingly) drove past a stopped-with-lights-flashing school bus (thank goodness I noticed at the last minute... the driver laid on the horn!), I knew I was in trouble.  I'm a firm believer that when you wake up in the morning, you can choose how you're going to approach the day... with a smile on your face and rolling with the punches or trudging around with a frown and a storm cloud over your head.  I just couldn't get it together though!

That's when I got a phone call from a long lost friend.  Alright, not so long and lost... we were roommates off and on for the last 15+ years and had been for the last 7 years before we both bought our own houses 4 months ago.  We both let "life" get in the way and we went from seeing each other every day to two phone calls in 4 months.  I was in a horrible mood but I invited him to join us for dinner and amazingly enough, he was free!

Dinner was quickly thrown together (I hadn't planned on company) and we caught up on what's been going on in our lives since we moved apart.  It was a great conversation that even my son was an active part of.  During our conversation, I was able to talk about things that I normally would be cautious about disclosing.  There's security in a friendship that has survived so many ups and down's.  We've lived together and been with each other through good times and bad.  I finally found what I was so truly Grateful for...

True friendship.

And that's what I was able to Give back.