This Thanksgiving for me was about friends, family, laughter, football, pumpkin, and turkey. We spent time with friends at the Thanksgiving day game. THANKFULLY the weather was nice and warm enough for me to attend…I am not good in cold or rainy weather. The halftime show by the STUPENDOUS Marching Band was very entertaining. I was also grateful for my husband’s quick thinking, patience, and willingness to allow our 3-year-old some time to run around during the game. She just does not like to be contained, but I am so content to sit in my seat and watch the game.
We had another DELICIOUS Thanksgiving dinner at Sue and Hank’s house and I can’t remember the last time I laughed so hard. Everything and everyone was funny…in a very good way. I tried to make spice pumpkin fudge this year and after my second attempt, it came out very TASTY. I wasn’t sure how it would set with pumpkin in it, but it worked. What a good day! Sometimes I think things have to be elaborate or fancy or out of the ordinary to be GREAT, but it was the simple things this year that seem to tug at my heart.
It is said so often and we hear it everywhere we go, but it is so important not to take those people nearest and dearest to us for granted. I am so thankful for my family…all their quirks, talents, and stuff.
Now we have the Christmas decorations out and we are preparing for Christmas. It is my intention to not get swept up into the consumerism of Christmas. My addiction that more is better. I hope to have a Christmas time filled with the same things I experienced at Thanksgiving. We can do without all the stuff, but the people really make the difference.
Later….
Christy
