My favorite holiday...

Most of the stores have been packed with Christmas items since before Halloween, which really annoys me.  Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, I love that we have a day dedicated towards gratefulness.  It's too bad that it gets overshadowed by the gimme gimme monster that our society has created around Christmas...

Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday, dedicated to spending time with family and/or friends, too much food, and reflecting on the many blessings that we too often take for granted in our busy lives.  I love the simplicity of it, giving thanks, yet the enormous importance of it, being grateful for all that we have.  I am not talking materialistically, but simple everyday abilities such as being able to see the new fallen snow this morning, (though honestly I'd prefer sunny and warm), being fit enough to go walking and appreciating that my mom is still around and able to share this time with me...

I could go on and on, but I need to get dressed and get my daughter off to school, so I will close with a photo of the first and probably only Thanksgiving dinner that I prepared entirely on my own, the first year of my first marriage when we were 1,000 miles away from our families:

Wishing you all a blessed Thanksgiving with much to be thankful for!!!