Reverb10 Prompt 14

Prompt: Appreciate. What's the one thing you have come to appreciate most in the past year? How do you express gratitude for it?

In October of 2009 I finally made the decision to quit my part-time job. It took me over a year to have the nerve to quit.  My husband had always backed me on the decision but I could never get the "balls" to do it. 

I was always afraid that there would not be enough money for our family to survive. We are a family of seven, it was the worst financial time in U.S. history and  I wanted to quit, leaving all the burden on my husband. 

So here it is 14 months later and we are doing okay, there are no bill collectors calling, the heat and electric are on, the house is clean, the children are happy and there is food on the table. 

I am most appreciative of my husband and his job, plus the confidence he had in me and our family to survive when I did not. 

I am now a stay at home mom, taking care of our children and the household, I wish I could say that every minute of everyday I show gratitude for being at home, but I don't....sometimes everything gets to me and I am not as grateful as I should be (or its PMS kicking in!!!), I have told my husband how grateful I am and I hope he knows by the way I keep the house, or when I  shovel the snow from driveway three times in one day!!

All kidding aside...Life, Marriage and children are a give and take, and I am so thankful for my husbands giving heart, his faith, his support and his job.