Today I'm thankful for the one thing I can't live without...the air in my lungs, the breaths that I take. I'm thankful for the ability to breathe in and smell leather, library books, babies, my man after a shower, and fill my lungs with the fresh air outside before it rains.
If you didn't know, I used to be a smoker. I smoked in high school and through college, up until Bub was 6. So that was a total of about 10 years. I was finally able to quit when Bub was learning about alcohol and drug awareness in health in 1st grade. I would smoke in the car and he would give me a hard time and beg me to quit. Finally one day I realized that I wasn't going to choose cigarettes over my son. I wasn't going to ignore his requests and send the message that he wasn't important enough. It was time to drop the habit. So I made a new years resolution that year, put some behavioral things in place for myself to make it harder for me to smoke and reward myself when I didn't smoke, and by the time I knew it days and weeks had gone by. Now it's been 6 years!
I'm thankful that I was able to kick the habit and I can breathe freely again. I don't wake up feeling like an elephant is sitting on my chest. So today I'm thankful for the one thing I can't live without...the ability to breathe easy. My healthier lungs.
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