Blessings

Dear friend,
   I have been blessed so much this year. Trials looked at from a different point of truly are blessings. And this past year I have not only had trials but I have also learned to look at them as blessings, and that has been a great blessing to me.
   This February my dad lost his job, that was a great fall back to my family. We felt stick and didn't know what to do next. But we pushed on and soon it became a normal part of life to have dad home all the time. We have learned a lot of skills during this trial, cooking with food storage, shopping once a month, only buying things we really need, and saving money. That has been a blessing.
   Many people have seen our needs and been so willing to share. Just simple things like asking what we need or noticing and dropping something by.
   In this Christmas season we have been especially blessed. Christmas elf's leaving things at our door, millions of gift cards and dollars left in cupboards. Everyone has felt the need to give, and share this special Christmas.
   They say that "the older you get the less you want for Christmas, because the things you really want are things that cannot be bought with money". This year I couldn't think of anything that I wanted! I thought and I thought, I looked through adds from the newspaper, but I couldn't find anything! My parents kept asking me but I didn't have any ideas. I see this as a blessing because we have been so taken care of we have very few and small needs. What a blessing.
   Well I'll get to the point now, today my dad was offered a job, and today he accepted it. It is very exciting! It will be weird to have him leave and go back to work, and the hours are weird but we are very lucky. And his whole wish was "I just want a job before Christmas".
   -Dassia