Thanksgiving

It’s Thanksgiving! My mom and I just flew back today from visiting family, so we’re celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow. It’s strange, because we typically have a big gathering in our house on Thanksgiving, and I miss all the cheer and laughter. At the same time, I’m also feeling very thankful to just be safely home, snuggled in front of the fireplace with my dog.

Last year, I made a “thanksgiving” jar –  our guests wrote things for which they were thankful on little pieces of paper and placed them in the jar. It was great fun, because when the food was consumed and everyone had settled into the living room, we began passing the jar around and reading the slips of paper. Everything from “Star Wars” to “my brother” to “tea” made it into the jar, and some of them were quite amusing — it really was a great way to finish up the Thanksgiving evening. Since we aren’t hosting a party this year, I’m going to make a virtual “thanksgiving jar” here, and list some of the myriad things that I’m thankful for. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and it’s in no order whatsoever! Enjoy — and Happy Thanksgiving!

My dog, Violet
My brother
Books
The Hobbit
The Rabbit Room
Creativity
Tea
Fancy teacups and teapots
Jewelry
Blue
Transformers
Star Wars
Mountains
Horses
Food (I’m a hobbit at heart…)
Pretty dresses
Christmas lights
Flowers
Firewood
Soft puppy fur
Liberty University
Laughter
Agents of SHIELD
Home
Owls
Beautiful stationery
Friends
Homemade bread (well, homemade anything really…)
Scrapbook paper
Truffle cookies (like the chocolate, not the mushroom)
Visiting relatives
My Macbook Air
Millet (who doesn’t love a muffin with that little crunch of millet?)
Harry Potter
J.R.R. Tolkien
TobyMac
Francesca Battistelli
Hiking
Pomegranates
Christmas (and the reason for it!)
Cleverness
Humor
Tatting
Airplanes
…
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera! I keep thinking of things as I’m trying to finish this — so many things to be thankful for!