Friday, November 26, 2010

Thanksgiving

We were blessed to have my husband's entire immediate family at our home for Thanksgiving. Those of us who were so moved said what we were grateful for, but I always feel at those moments that whatever I say comes out trite- you know, "I am thankful we are all here together."

Well, that was pretty much what I said, but at that moment I didn't feel so trite. My mother in law has had a very difficult year health-wise, and I truly am grateful for the gift of having her with us. To get my husband's entire family in the same house at the same time requires skills rivaled by those in charge of corralling shoppers on Black Friday at the Mall of America, so another thing to be grateful for. I just returned safely from a glorious three weeks in Israel (half of which were spent with the JWRP Transform and Grow trip and half with Cheese Guy and a spectacular cast of characters including family and friends). And those are the big things. To even get started on the little things would take forever.

But I guess that's the point, isn't it? Take forever and be grateful for the little things. You'll never run out of things to be thankful for once you start thinking small.

1. that Julia Child is finally getting recognition from an entirely new generation of young adults (I'm sitting on the couch watching old "Julia Child with Master Chefs" with Cheese Guy).
2. That I don't have to worry about how to stay warm when it's 26 degrees outside.
3. That I don't have to shop at any stores on Black Friday because I can't afford to buy presents otherwise (not that that's why all people shop on Black Friday, obviously, but that's the only reason I could ever be dragged out on such a day).

BD

2 comments:

  1. As a serious reporter, I am having troubles following the story line here. You mention thanksgiving - then shabbat - and trekking on saturday your shabbat. For our viewers benifit, thanksgiving is the same as shabbat, right?
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  2. Thanksgiving is not the same as Shabbat. It is an American holiday, the third Thursday in November, that celebrates the early days of the American colonists settling the land. In this post I don't mention Shabbat or trekking on Shabbat, so I'm not so clear on your difficulty in following the storyline. Please ask your question again if I haven't answered it well enough, and thanks for reading!

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