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Grateful!

Grateful! Sandy smiling with her family.

With all the craziness going on in the world today, I wanted to take a moment to pause and to be Grateful! I consider myself to be very lucky and I am going to take this opportunity to express my gratitude. I have so many people in my life that make my life better in so many ways.

My family is a big part of my life and through this pandemic, I have been able to spend time with my parents, my daughter, her wonderful boyfriend, and my husband. We have shared so many wonderful meals, played cards and games, and worked on countless puzzles.

My daughter has also chosen this crazy period in time to join a school corporation as a Speech-Language Pathologist. I am grateful that she has a job and is able to meet the needs of her students who need her so much. I am also so grateful that PATINS and ICAM have another great advocate out in the schools and she is already raising awareness in her school. 

I also have a fantastic extended family and we have been able to play tennis and to get out and take walks. I am also so grateful that while one member of my family has contracted COVID-19 that they had very minimal symptoms and they have recovered. We also survived a COVID-19 scare with my daughter, she had Bronchitis and we were grateful for that!

I am blessed to have a magnificent group of friends that I am very grateful for. I have so many women in my life that I can reach out to. I have my tennis friends who are always there to not only hit a ball around but to listen to me and take my mind off the world for a while. I also meet every Thursday for dinner with three friends. I look forward to our night out every week. I am grateful that I can call any of these women and know that they are there for me. 

Finally, I am so grateful for my current position as the ICAM Digital Services Specialist. I have been employed by the PATINS Project since 2001, so this will be my 19th year. I have the privilege of being able to work from home for an organization that I believe has made an enormous difference in the lives of so many students, teachers, and other school personnel. Just last year, the ICAM served staff and students in over 180 school corporations! I am grateful that the work that I do is so rewarding! I hope that you will take a pause and think about everything you are grateful for, I know it made me feel better.

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Guest - Martha H. on Friday, 21 August 2020 13:59

Thanks for this, Sandy. Everything is crazy and being grateful is a good way back to Zen.

Thanks for this, Sandy. Everything is crazy and being grateful is a good way back to Zen.
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Guest - Glenda Thompson on Friday, 21 August 2020 19:37

The very definition of grateful according to Webster is “thankful for benefits received” ...how appropriate for the grass roots of PATINS. Benefitting the student has always been the goal.
Thank you, Sandy, for asking us to pause to reflect on our own lives, personally and professionally, to take note of our gratitudes in life. There are many.

The very definition of grateful according to Webster is “thankful for benefits received” ...how appropriate for the grass roots of PATINS. Benefitting the student has always been the goal. Thank you, Sandy, for asking us to pause to reflect on our own lives, personally and professionally, to take note of our gratitudes in life. There are many.
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