I'm grateful that I survived a marriage that turned into a nightmare, and that I managed to get out of it with only emotional scars.
I am grateful that my new life is calm and utterly free of drama. I love my gray, boring, everyday life of fishsticks and fried rice dinners and hot tea and snuggling with the kids in front of yet another animated movie with dialog written for elementary school children.
I'm grateful that not only do I have my wonderfully wild and wooly children starting to turn in the right direction -- I also have a new man in my life who sent me the most amazing roses today. I've never gotten flowers on Valentine's day before. Ever. Twenty years of marriage, and never once.
And I'm grateful that someone told me AXH had sent his new girlfriend flowers today, too. Somehow, it gives me hope that he might be trying to do things right this time around.