Happy Thanksgiving

 

Thanksgiving 2020

I have a long list of topics that I want to cover in this blog but yet it seems more appropriate to leave those for another day.  2020 has been a crazy year.  Friends have lost loved ones.  We have said goodbye to many patients.  This is not the Thanksgiving that we wanted.  I want to be with my family.  I want to be sitting down to eat a big meal with 20 people in my house drinking and laughing.  I want to be snuggling my baby nephew who is growing rapidly.  Unfortunately none of those things will happen this year.  It is so easy to write this year off and think of all the things that make me angry....all of the things that 2020 has changed and the stress that this has induced.  But as I sit typing this I listen to my crazy parrot, watch my lazy cat looking out the window, and my daughter making apple crumble squares I know that there is still so much for me to be thankful for.

I am thankful for my little fur family Gracie, Storm, Ralph and our little feathered Paco.  I am incredibly thankful for my children and husband.  As difficult as it has been to navigate all of the changes, I am thankful that unlike so many, I could continue to work and my business is still open.  I am so thankful to be Canadian.  I am thankful to have a house.  COVID has slowed us down so we are no longer running every single night to chidren's activities.  This has forced us to do more things as a family.  Although I can't be with my family this Thanksgiving I am thankful that I have them.  I can pick up the phone and call them and I know so many who can no longer do that.  I am so thankful for my staff.....my staff who care so incredibly much about SOAR, the patients, and the clients, that they are forever thinking of positive changes that can be made.  Their passion and drive is unmatchable.  I am so thankful to have made the career choices that led me to open SOAR.  I am thankful to have opportunities to teach virtually (so I don't have to fly!!!!! :) :)) and speak at virtual conferences (which avoids the whole public speaking fear LOL).  
And....I will be VERY thankful when 2020 is over.

I miss my clients.  I miss my family.  I miss my friends.  But this is not forever.

I know that the things I am thankful for do not apply to everyone.  Maybe none of them do.  But maybe you are thankful that although you live alone, someone dropped off some lovely Thanksgiving food for you.  Maybe your puppy just won a ribbon in his first show.  Maybe although your work has closed, you have found a job....any job, somewhere else.  Maybe you are just thankful to be alive.  

Whatever you are thankful for, I hope that you take time to enjoy this weekend.  Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, from all of us :)













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