When your Thanksgiving vacation involves traveling 1,000 miles by air or 500 miles by automobile, involves sleeping on couch-beds or in sleeping bags thrown on the floor, involves trying to negotiate your way to the serving table with 10 kids and 9 other adults competing for space, or involves waiting 20 minutes for your turn in the shower only to find there is little hot water left, when your Thanksgiving, in other words, ends up an overcrowded, noisy, inconvenient get together, it's hard to remember what this day is for. One thing that helped us remember was the prayer over the morning's breakfast when little Jillian prayed, "and please bless Grandma that her hair will grow in beautiful again."
We are indeed thankful for our health, our family, our friends, our home, jobs, and some security for the future. We're thankful we live in a country where power can pass from one president to the next without tanks rollings in the streets.
We're thankful for friends and family that think enough of us at this time to make a special effort to get here and the friends and family who wish they could be here. Things could be better but they could be a lot worse. We're thankful they aren't.
May your Thanksgiving be a time for great thanksgiving whatever your condition.
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