What a blessed Thanksgiving we had!

Mom and Jimmie came over around 12:30 for dinner. We were setting the table and getting all the food ready to be served on the bartop when they got there, so it was perfect timing. We said a prayer together and went around the table saying what we were thankful for...

Mom was thankful for family healing that has been happening in our family this year (she talked to her sister whom she hadn't talked to in 12 years yesterday and My Dad is admitting his faults and apologizing for them and it's been a big help in healing for all of us.

Andy was thankful for being able to have everyone over for dinner at our new house and for all the food we were being able to eat. Of course he was thankful for family too!

I was thankful for family and friends and that we were able to add children to our house this year.

Little J was thankful for family and her new sister (Deidra)and for her good foster home and for her mom and dad and for her visits. Just the fact that she mentioned our home and that she thought it was a good one had me teary eyed. She definitely made everything worth it (all the trials that we've had with her so far) when she said that.

Deidra was thankful for Baxter (our old family dog who just passed away before we moved down here...she mentions him at all her prayers) and for her family and friends.

My brother Jimmie was thankful that he wasn't hurt anymore and made it through football season this season without any hurts or broken bones and that he was still healthy and he was thankful for his family.

Mom and I went for a walk after dinner and dessert around our neighborhood in the freezing cold. We made it just in time when we got back for it to start sleeting. I was having a pretty hard time with cramps (AF arrived yesterday just in time for her turkey time too I guess) and bleeding pretty badly and so Mom took me up to Wal-mart to get me a heating pad when I took several 500mg tylenol without it helping at all. Wal-mart was totally dead and I jokingly said that if you wanted to go to Wal-mart that was the time to go as I had been in there the night before Turkey Day and it was a madhouse in there then. We came home and just spent family time together and Mom read to the kids for awhile. Mom brought a little kitchenette for them to play with in the playroom too, so they are loving that. She found it at a yardsale over the summer and had it in her backyard for Deidra, but she washed it up and brought it over here so that they'd have it here to play with. It was a great and very blessed Thanksgiving!