Thanksgiving...

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and it will be the first Thanksgiving since I've known John that we are not going to be with either family. We are staying home. We were going to stay home initially because of John's school but after it was rescheduled we decided to stay home anyway. I've been thinking a lot lately about what I'm truly thankful for and I wanted to post a few things that came to mind.

The first thing I am grateful for is John, to me he encompasses so many wonderful things. He is kind, loving, an absolutely wonderful Dad, charming, intelligent and most of all he makes me laugh. I am grateful for everyday I've had with him and for everyday I will have with him.

I am truly grateful for my wonderful girls, without them life would be very dull. They are kind, fun loving and intelligent.

I am thankful for my parents. I wish we could see them more but when we do see them they are always so openly loving to the girls. Grandpa makes sure there are cookies, cakes or pies for them (each will have a favorite food already prepared when we arrive).

I am grateful for my extended family, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Thanksgiving is the only day I see some of them so I am sad we will not see them this year. But I hope their day is full of love and laughter (I know it will be). I love you all and miss you all.

I am thankful for John's family. They too are kind and warm and generous to our girls. We wish we saw them more often too, but time seems to go by to quickly.

I am thankful for my friends. My friends near and far, those I see often and those I've seen once in seven years. You know exactly who I am and you accept me for me. That's friendship!

I am very thankful that we are able to homeschool our girls. If you talk to John today, you would assume he had never questioned it. We are able to enjoy each other every day.

Those are just a few of my thanksgiving thoughts. I'm sure you each have your own, some will be the same and some very different. So long as we take the time to be thankful, I believe that's all that really matters.