Thanksgiving 2008

Thanksgiving time is here - so much to be thankful for! So much we take for granted each and every day. Health, family and our friends. I have to say, I am so guilty! I am SO thankful for my family, my sweet husband who I adore, and my two beautiful girls, Cassie and Morgan. They are the most precious gifts I have ever received, and I am so Thankful that God gave them to ME! I'm so thankful for the opportunity to be a mother. The most meaningful part of my entire life, is that experience alone! Of course, I would never have experienced this blessing if I had not met and married the man I feel God placed in my life. Life has not always been easy, nor has it always been fun, but the most meaningful things in your life never are - We get out of life, what we put into it - at least that's how I look at it. What time we devote to our families, and that precious time with God......we reap what we sow!
This year, won't you tell those you love that you love them and let them know how thankful you are for them! Each day we need to take it as a gift from God - we are not promised tomorrow.
I am thankful for today!
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

well.....it was a busy weekend for us! Friday night, Morgan had play practice till 10:15pm - Rob and I went to church for a pot luck to see see Gabrielle Woods before she headed back to Costa Rico! It was good seeing her again! Saturday, Rob got up early to go put his deer stand up - he got home about 4:30pm. I ran errands Saturday morning and Morgan slept in. We went to O'Charlies for lunch with Valerie....then home. We did laundry and I fixed a meal for a friend who just had a baby....THEN when Rob got back, (around 4:30) we started pulling out all of the STUFF we had in the attic! it was packed! 13 years of boxes that we have not been in once since moving there! SO it was time to get them out and see what was so important that we just HAD to keep them! What a mess! Half the stuff I just looked at Rob and said "What was so important that we even had to pack this stuff?" - We have come to the conclusion we are a wasteful family! so much of the STUFF we bought, and here we sat looking at it with a WHY look on our face! Well....someone else will get to be blessed with all this stuff - a lot of it is pretty good stuff - so we'll see...Salvation Army here we come! Seriously - why do we always think "Oh we might need this SOMEDAY" and pack it away! If we won't use it - then don't keep it - it's my NEW moto!!! So, the rest of this week, I've got about 8 tubs to get thru and pick out what I think we need to keep - I'm talking just Christmas decorations! All the other stuff has been sorted thru and most of it is in the trash! I even found old letters from my old boyfriends and then I found a diary that I had when I was a kid - seriously - why do we hold onto this stuff? I found my journal notebooks I kept when Rob and I started dating too - most of it was just silly - made me laugh - but it's time to let all this stuff go! A clean space makes me feel like I've accomplished a lot!
So, the rest of my week - sorting out Christmas decorations and deciding which ones I think we need to keep! ;0) PLUS I have to get my house ready for company! Cassie is coming home this weekend to see Morgan's 1st porformance in a play at William Chrisman! She is an orphan in the play Annie! (Kate is her character) - Then my mom and my aunt Wilma is coming up to watch it as well! So, I've got to get my house cleaned up! ;0)
I hope to enjoy the week thru all this cleaning! Enjoy YOUR week!
Denise