Happy Thanksgiving or Happy Thursday
If you celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you have a great holiday weekend. If you don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, then have a great Thursday.
We’re having Turkey and the trimmings — the picture is not our little bitty smoked turkey but one from Amazon — looks great doesn’t it? Ours doesn’t look that polished and pretty but it sure will taste just as good. Hyperion and I are having a very low key Thanksgiving this year. My son couldn’t make it for Thanksgiving but will be here for Christmas instead (normally he does Thanksgiving with the parental units and Christmas with his friends).
Traditionally, we put up the Christmas tree after Thanksgiving Day dinner. This year with us both suffering the after affects of a cold/flu thingy — we’ll get it done this weekend. I’ll post a photo when it’s up. Christmas is my favorite holiday but for the spirit of it, not the gift giving/getting of it. In fact we do very little in the gift giving area except for our mothers and my son. And we keep telling the mothers to forget the gifts for us and get something for themselves that they normally wouldn’t get and tell us about it — that would be gift enough for us, but so far no agreement on that front.
For Thanksgiving, though, it’s traditional to give thanks for the blessings and joy in your life so here’s some thanks in bullet points:
- For being able to work at home. With my health problems, sitting in an office eight hours a day is not an option … but putting in that time at home is — wish more employers would twig to that fact of health problems.
For life. I’m a cancer survivor and every major holiday is a joy that can’t be measured. Each day is a special event and no matter how much I complain or whine, at my core I’m well aware that every day is a gift. Now if I could manage to stop squandering that gift I’d be ecstatic.
For my husband. I’m one of the luckiest women in the world to have someone who supports me and is such a match for me — I don’t know many other men who’d sing the grammar rock songs with me or laugh hysterically at the funny bits in Hogfather, or just quietly hand me a tissue during Pride and Prejudice. He’s a gem and I’m totally thankful.
My family. I love them all. Granted sometimes they drive me crazy but that doesn’t mean that I love them any less.
My friends near and far. I have local friends I see often and I have made some amazing friends through various activities and groups on the Internet who I’ve never met in person. My friends have given me hope, advice, shared a shoulder when I needed it, and been the means of keeping myself centered and moving forward. Thanks to all of you for your wisdom, advice, and caring.
Lord knows I could go on and on but I’ll spare all of you the wee minutia of my thankfulness. So, enjoy the holiday and make your own lists of thankfulness. Maybe I should have included the fiber thankfulness…hmmm.