Thank You!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to Everyone! I just wanted to say how wonderful you people have made this year for me and how your support has helped my quit for the last 8 months. I have been on vacation for the last week and just came in to read up on all the posts I have missed when I saw Andi's SOS. Andi ,stop smoking, my hubby came home Christmas Eve from his job of 32 years to tell me that his company has been sold to some kind of holding co. that is going to strip it and sell it. Right now we don't know exactly where we stand. I do know that since the economy went south this past year our 401K has been cut into a third of what it was before. I have a pretty good job but we (as are most couples) are almost paycheck to paycheck with little to spare. I won't go on and make this a boring and self pitying post but suffice it to say this sure isn't the best way to end the year. I would like to say however this is not going to send me running for a pack of cigarettes and thanks to this board I can come here and whine if I need to but I don't need to smoke. I have a beautiful family that I just spent a glorius Christmas with, 5 grown children and 3 phenomenal grandchildren ( with a newborn baby grandaughter that lights up my life) and for these reasons I thank God. Things are going to happen the way they are supposed to and I hope they will turn out for the better. It's scary but it certainly isn't going to be the end of the world. I just want to say thank you all for being here this year , thank you for my quit,smoking cessation, thank you for your unconditional support in so many different ways and Merry Christmas and God Bless you my friends. love , paula