I'm still standing...

Well would you look at that!  I found my blog!  It would appear it has been a bit of a pattern with this blog that I post for a while and then I'm gone for a while.  Well, I hope this time I'm back for good.

Life certainly has changed over the years of this blog.  When I started blogging in 2007, my husband had recently become very ill with crohn's disease.  In 2009 he lost his fight, but won the ultimate prize, and now has a new body in heaven.  I blogged about my journey - the triumphs and the defeats.

When I started re-blogging in 2011, I was a new woman...sort of.  I had found running was a passion of mine.  I had started running with Team Diabetes, a fundraising division of the Canadian Diabetes Association, and I was figuring out life one day at a time as a single mom, relying heavily on my friends and my faith.

The end of 2011 also brought with it a new friendship that quickly blossomed into something more and I remarried in 2012. 

I feel as though the Elton John song "I'm still standing", which he released in 1983 when I was 10 years old, applies quite well to my life.  The lyrics read (sing?) "I'm still standing better than I ever did, feeling like a little kid".  I'm still standing.  After the triumphs, and yes, even after the defeats, because they are all, both the good and the bad, the joys and the sorrows, the fun stuff and that 'really God?' stuff, part of life.  That, and my children are constantly asking me to grow up (the little kid reference).  I'm loving life, and being goofy.

Life is not perfect.  I am still meeting challenges.  Sometimes I meet these challenges head on.  Sometimes I try to not make eye contact, but the challenges, and the opportunities for triumphs, are still there, and I am still standing.

Thank you for refinding my blog!  Thank you for reading.