So thankful

I was glad that we got to spend some time with family for Thanksgiving.  We spent Thanksgiving Day with Bruce's family.  The only people at lunch that day were Bruce's parent, Bruce's grandmother and Bruce & I.  It was actually quite nice.  At most family dinners alot of time is spent fussing with Bruce's nephew.  There is always a big discussion about whether he is eating, not eating, minding his manners, getting desert or not, etc.  Thanksgiving day was spent without all of that chaos and our family time was very enjoyable.  We had the traditional turkey, ham, dressing, potatoes, sweet potato pie, etc.  Good good food and I took the day off from my diet to splurge a bit.

After lunch we looked at old photo albums and my mother-in-law actually let me bring home two albums so I could make copies of the photos that I want.  I'm excited to get to see all these photos and it will be fun to get copies for myself so I can put them in my own scrapbooks.

We also had another family dinner on Saturday evening.  We had a second dinner because Bruce's sister & her familiy were in town from Colorado.  They spent Thanksgiving day with other relatives so Saturday was their day to spend with us.  It was a good visit and I enjoyed visiting with them.  We don't see them often so there is never enough time to catch up on everything.  We are still newlyweds and I'm still getting to know my new family and I really enjoy it.

I debated on whether or not I should make a list of the things that I'm thankful for.  I want to make the list but how can you sum up such great things in one little list?  So just know that these things are what made the short list for this year and it changes from year to year and definitely does not include every wonderful thing in my life.

• I am very thankful that I am living such a wonderful life with my fabulous husband.  I am so glad that we met at the perfect time in both of our lives.
• I am thankful that all of our girls seem to being doing a good job at finding their way in life.
• I am thankful that my health is improving so much these days.  I am actually looking forward to each day now instead of not feeling like I can even get out of bed.  So so so wonderful for me!
• I am thankful that I have come to realize how blessed we are with material things in our life and that I have realized that what we don't have is really just "stuff" that we absolutely can live without.
• I am thankful that I have realized that I don't have to do things for people to get them to be my friends.  I was constantly doing things for people because I thought they were my friends.  I was always disappointed because they either weren't there for me when I needed them or I found out that they were using me.
• I am thankful that I have realized that I have zero friends.  I know it sounds strange for me to say I'm thankful for that.  But now knowing that I have zero friends also makes me know that no one is using me.  I have to say I like have no friends as opposed to feeling used and lonely.

So that's the list.  It is by no means everything that I'm thankful for but it hits the high points for now.

I hope that everyone had a terrific Thanksgiving and that you have many blessing to be thankful for also!

Comments

[Mimi]

A wonderful list of blessings! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

[Marjorie]

Hi... thanks for the comments on my blog. Aren't fabulous husbands wonderful? I have one of those too...LOL (sometimes he does drive me up the walls though).