Thankful for Traffic

Okay, so I am a day behind posting the things that I'm thankful for during this week. But I have a good reason. We didn't get to my parents house until late last night and this is the first chance that I've had to be online (dial-up so I use the term online loosely). It usually takes about 3 to 3 1/2 hours to get from our house to my parents. We left Lockhart at 4:15 or so yesterday afternoon and had a stop to make in Austin. We got to my parents house at 10:30. Needless to say the traffic was thick, especially through Austin.

And that has me thinking about the "strange" and "weird" things that I am thankful for. I am trying to look at things a little different this week and see the little, overlooked, even sometimes irritating things that I am thankful for.

So I am thankful for traffic. Yep, you read right. I said I am thankful for traffic. I am thankful that to travel for a holiday weekend requires me to sit motionless on what should be a fast moving roadway. I am thankful for traffic...because it means that I have a family to go home to. Having to sit in traffic and go through the "stress" of holiday travel means I am going somewhere to spend time with a family that loves me. So I guess this post really is more about being thankful for an incredible family than anything. I have the best family in the world. I have an absolutely amazing wife, who is unbelievable in so many ways. I have parents who love and support me and have always been there for me, urging me to be my best and loving me when I wasn't. I have the great opportunity to still have two grandparents living that I get to learn life lessons from and I cherish every extra day I get with them. I have a brother who is not only blood, but my best friend in the world. And that doesn't even include my extended family and friends. Those friends in life who are as close as family, who share life and all it's ups and downs with you. I truly am blessed with a great number of people in my life and around this time of year, and really all year long, I am reminded to be thankful.

Traffic...that maddening, irritating, schedule ruining, anurism causing, enigma...I am thankful for traffic...because it means I'm on the way home.