Blessings to all of the wonderful Thanksgiving season!
We are so blessed, I have absolutely no right to complain...but, sadly, I always find a way. Deliver me, Lord. The grace that my family lives and breathes, and walks in, is too wonderful to describe. And lest we take any of it for granted, thank you, God, thank you, Lord, thank you, Abba.
We have had a most wonderful holiday together, if not all in one place, one together, none the less. We called Chris after our feast (he is four hours earlier!) and caught his new "family" celebrating not only Thanksgiving, but Christmas for some of their fam not able to attend the 'real' C-day festivities! This family knows how to celebrate - doesn't matter what the date is - it's time to celebrate.
Our table groaned with turkey and ham, mashed potatoes AND hash brown casserole (just for you, son!), green beans, regular stuffing, and spinach/gruyere sourdough stuffing, gravy, cornbread, cranorange relish, constant comment iced tea, and, oh, yeah, homemade pumpkin and Pa-KAHN' pie with whipped cream! Enough already!! We were joined by hubby's music buddy, Jim P., the instrument repairman, Kiera and Scott, Kellan and Rob and Aubrey, and a good time was had by all.
Of course, after stuffing ourselves, we played games around the cleared table and found a new fav that mom (me) is actually good at! It's an interesting version of 'six degrees of separation' called TRIBOND, where you have to give the connection of three random items from the card which allows you to advance on the game board. Then when Rob's team (Jim, Kiera, and Rob) won, we moved on to Chickenfoot. For those who are the uninitiated, Chickenfoot is a version of Dominoes! AGAIN, Rob won and lest we lose to him yet a third time, we opted to skip SWAP! and go to bed! It, too, is a new and very fun family card game.
Our first holiday with Aubrey was a delight, but before too much of a good thing takes her out of her schedule, Mom and Dad are taking her home later today to sleep better in her own bed. What a precious granddaughter we have. Her smile pulls you right into the depths of those gorgeous brown eyes! Yet another of our treasures of blessing!
I am blessed to be employed at a place where our superintendant allows us the entire week of Thanksgiving and every year, I am reminded of what a blessing that is. Thank you, boss!
And to all of my five readers, May the God of peace who brought our Lord Jesus from the dead bless you abundantly above anything you could ask or think- today and always.
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