Taking a step in a different direction these next few weeks, I've always wanted to blog but not just about hair. Here is a peek into my personal life.

My biggest thing with this blog series is that I don't want to come across as prideful or come off as if my life is completely perfect and everything goes according to plan. Because of the last year and a half, my life has done anything but gone as according to plan.

And in by no means am I perfect or is my life perfect. These next four weeks of my gratitude blog is something more for me to look at the silver linings in my every day perfectly imperfect sometimes boring, normal life.

This past weekend was Thanksgiving(Canadian) and like everyone else, it got me thinking about what I was thankful for. Now recently my husband Joel and I just found out that come April we would be owing a lot in taxes because of my husbands old carpentry business that he is in the process of shutting down. When I first found this out I had a pretty big internal panic about how on earth in 7 months would we be able to save this money with only one income and a college student… Then as the long weekend came around I began thinking about how I wasn’t scared or stressed about it anymore. In the last couple weeks my heart had calmed down and I had made a decision to take it as a personal challenge and not as a defeat. Only 7 months to save this tax money and I still had dreams of going to Europe as well. Well I thought, I don’t know how but I will.

So when Joel asked me what I was thankful for this year I told him, my job. I am so thankful that I get to work in this amazing environment and be blessed with my co-workers and amazing clients who support me. I am also so thankful that I make enough to be able to support two people, so my husband can go to college and pursue his calling of becoming a pastor.

Life is full of these moments, the ones that threaten to knock us off our feet and defeat us. But if we can take these life moments head on and overcome them, even just try, you will come out stronger then before.