Tonight I write from an in-law’s home, and it would be easy to dwell on how I want to be home making my own dinner, instead of being on the road eight hours today and destined for eight hours more on Friday. The truth is, we can almost always find things for which to be thankful. For me, I know I need to acknowledge more each day the things for which I can be thankful. Fellow blogger of Nourishing Words recently convinced me that I need to start a gratitude journal. Instead of trying to name everything for which I’m thankful today, I’ll just say I’m thankful that I have nice in-laws! I’m also so thankful for all of my blog readers and how all of you share your recipes and ideas for living here. You’ve made my life richer in so many ways. Will you share one or two thing for which you’re thankful?
Happy Thanksgiving
November 24, 2010 by Ozarkhomesteader
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I’m grateful for cranberries and squash and learning how to brine a turkey from ozarkhomesteader and my family back in the ozarks and my family here on cape cod, especially my two sons home from college, who have shown me for a couple of years now that Thanksgiving’s middle name is Homecoming….
Welcome to the blog, Cindy, and thank you for such beautiful sentiments! Thanksgiving as homecoming really is a wonderful notion. I keep thinking this year that home is wherever the family is.
I am grateful for old friends who were willing to drive 8 hours to be with us on Thanksgiving in our new home!
Welcome to the blog, Cary, and those do sound like good friends. You’re making me feel even better about our Thanksgiving trek too, because I know it means a lot to everyone here. 🙂
So thankful for these three sleepyhead boys that will help me prepare our Thanksgiving meal today.
Tammy, reading about your boys always makes me happy. I hope you have a wonderful day. I know you’ll have a great feast!
I am thankful for my best friend and her family who expect that I will join them for Thanksgiving dinner…and asks where I am if I’m not…and my family who expects her to join us in celebration and when she’s not there, asks where she is.
Regina, friends like that are the best! I had a couple of families adopt me through the years when my parents were divorcing and the unpleasant aftermath. Knowing I had happy place to go where folks still celebrated Norman Rockwell style was so comforting.
P.S. Just in case you haven’t been following the weather near your childhood home, Northwest Arkansas is getting snow and sleet right now, and I just read a weather forecast that claimed a line from Mountain Home to Clinton to Clarksville may have snow by tonight. Of course, by the time we get home tomorrow, it will be gone!
To say the least, I am most grateful for friends, old as well as new, who are currently in my life. And for my wonderful BF Brian, as well as Dippy the kitty and sweet, adorable Serena the wonderdog, princess and ruler of the universe.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Welcome to the blog, Clay, and those sound like wonderful things for which to be thankful! (Does Dippy know that his or her name implies things about intelligence?)
I’m thankful for having had the opportunity to sneak away to my favorite place in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom for a few days of rest, tranquility and beauty. What a perfect Thanksgiving weekend it was — lots of good food, too, of course!
Eleanor, that sounds lovely. Your time on rural Vermont always brings to mind the Von Trapps.