Today I am thankful for my friends

I realised something today, something good! I actually have quite a few friends at the moment, you know the in real life type friends not just facebook ones lol

It wasn't that many years ago where I felt like I literally had no real friends and boy was it lonely and a hard time. I know that over the years things have happened like friends moving away and I know I withdrew from most of my friends when Jack was little and I didn't know what was going on with him and so never knew what was going to set off a meltdown or behaviour. Thankfully he was diagnosed with Aspergers and could get early intervention and support and so he keeps on improving but he will always have Aspergers and have challenges, especially when it comes to social interaction.

Then of course my marriage break down happened and that was a really lonely and hard time for me. Thank God for my sister Sally and her partner Beth, without them both I seriously don't know how I will have made it through that time. The amount of time I rang Sal in tears because I was so lonely.

So I decided I needed to do something about it. I started by making friends with one of the other mum's at school. We are still friends and she is such a lovely lady. Her and her husband have been so great to me and my kids. They are really great with Jack and he loves them. It was nice to make friends with her too as she knew no one else in my life, so I knew I could totally trust her with things I said without her running to someone else and saying what I have said and that's has been a breath of fresh air in my life.

I have made a few more friends over the past couple of years. I am really grateful for them to. When I say friends, I mean the type you can ring and text, the type you go and do stuff with, like go to the movies, go out, go on playdates with your kids.
As lovely as facebook friends are, in real life friends that you can actually do stuff with are just awesome!

I have met some friends through karaoke that I am getting to know better and that has been great. Makes me love karaoke even more lol

I am actually quite a shy person and so making friends isn't something that comes easy to me, so it's great I have been able to and having the courage to put myself out there.

So even though I have been feeling a bit down about things at the moment and life can feel so complicated and messy, it's makes everything not feel so bad, knowing I have good friends who love me and support me and I love them and try and support them to.