Thanksgiving in Retrospect

I just wanted to take a minute and say ... I'm so very thankful for my family.  I'm thankful for the generosity of my Aunt and Uncle, who opened their home to us and took on the chaos of 15 adults converging on their home.  I'm thankful that my sister and her new husband were able to travel from Louisville, that my parents were able to come from California, that my brother traveled from Lubbock.  We all live far away, but we all make the effort to visit.  That's not always the case.  It's not always possible or convenient.

So in case you didn't know, family, I appreciate it.  Because it's important to me that we spend time together, when we can.  I'm glad we make it a priority.  My husband once told me, when he wasn't my husband, you can tell what a person loves by who or what they spend their time and money on.

I'm thankful for my husband, and my dog.  I'm thankful.  I have no reason to complain.  I'm thankful that through it all, we have each other.  I'm thankful for a healthy baby.  And a cute Tech onsie that my brother brought me.  I'm just so thankful to God, for all the blessings he has bestowed.  And I can't wait for Christmas!  To celebrate the birth of baby Jesus and visit my husband's parents!  Some of my neices and nephews (hopefully) will see snow for the first time!

From the First Thanksgiving Proclamation, by George Washington:

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be – That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks – for his kind care and protection of the People of this country previous to their becoming a Nation – for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war –for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed – for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.