Thanksgiving

Just got back from a fantastic meal at Amy's Aunt and Uncles house for Thanksgiving.  Sitting on the living room couch on the computer while Amy and Jack are curled up watching Peanuts on TV.  It's a neat little tradition she's had with him.

A day like today is good to help force you to stop and think about all of the great things in your life and it helps tie into why I'm starting out on this endeavor.   One of the interesting things that happened over the last couple days was in filling out the application for the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society one for the things that was asked is why are you choosing their organization to raise funds for to run in the marathon.  And as I sit and think about it today, this sort of started out as a way for me to check an event off the bucket list for my own selfish reasons and has now turned into something completely different. 

This morning before we went up to Wilmington to gather with the family, the four of us were just hanging out and spending time together.  Fortunately I was able to sit back through it all a realize how truly lucky I really am to have such happy and healthy boys in my life.  And to top it off to see how they interact with Amy and how great of a Mom she is to my boys really is just an amazing thing.  To see Brady and Jack running around the house this morning causing mayhem was really something special.   Their health and happiness is truly a blessing.

That coupled with the fact that this was the first major holiday that we all have gotten together since Amy's grandfather passed away from Leukemia earlier in the year really helps to bring all of this "stuff" together and make it fit into this perfect little puzzle in my life right now.

The fact that I don't have to spend my holiday at children's hospital making one of my boys with their cue ball head feel better from the every day battle of cancer is a blessing that I need to remind myself of every day when things seems to be bringing me down.  And now this running thing really seems like it should be relatively easy if I really keep this all in perspective.

So as I await my final approval from the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society to start my fundraising, it's with that gratefulness and hope that I can raise a few bucks so that I can hopefully help another dad out there who isn't as lucky as me can have a happy ending and enjoy a Thanksgiving with his kids like I did today.