A Week of Thanksgiving - Day 2

To be completely honest, there are times when I think that the Thanksgiving holiday is nothing but a precursor to Christmas.  It's a couple of much-needed days off work, and as the turkey and dressing come out of the oven, I smile to myself because now we can unpack the Christmas tree and throw in the holiday DVD's.

I have forgotten a lot about history, but I believe the pilgrims originally had this feast to celebrate the fact that they were still alive in the new land.  Despite a world of new hardships, they had food on the table and God in their hearts.  Any holiday celebrating food is a holiday for me.  The pilgrims and I have that in common.

I am in a new land, too.  Not nearly as full of hardships as the old land, though.

Orca and I fully appreciate celebratory feasts.

*I am thankful - and I think the pilgrims would appreciate this - for a fridge fully stocked with ingredients for Thanksgiving.  Tonight after work, I'm baking oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and a black forest pecan pie.  Tomorrow night will be the rest of the prep - with G here!

*I am thankful that this year, it will just be G and me on Thanksgiving.  Being with family is great, but it has been years and years since we celebrated a holiday in a low-key way, and we are going to enjoy it.

*It is a blessing to get random fall decorations in the mail from a friend who knows exactly how much I will appreciate them.  :)

*I am thankful that we have good jobs working for good people.  Work is not the focus of this blog - time off is! - but it deserves recognition that G and I are both incredibly blessed to work on teams of solid, intelligent and kind-hearted people.  Considering that work is where we spend the majority of our lives, and it is what quite literally puts food on our table, I thank God that it is pretty enjoyable.

*Lastly, I am thankful for a Sonic right down the road.  Is it sad that living close to one automatically makes it feel like home for me?  Whatevs.  I love it.