Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Happy Grateful Day

Happy, Happy, Thanksgiving!

Well, like the early Pilgrims, I am thankful that I live in America and have enough food to eat. I'm thankful that the natives are mostly friendly.

Today and tomorrow I will attempt to manage my material blessings to accommodate the company that is coming for the holiday. Bill and I struggled to feed our children well for years and now we finally have that total year's supply. A lot of it is piled over the basement floor and I need to clean it up and freshen the bedrooms down there for the company.

I will be warm as I do this. I will get to take a hot shower afterward and will have a clean bathroom available for breaks. I will have lots of fresh, clean, cool water to drink and snacks up the ying-yang. I will not have to worry that gangs of thugs are going to break into my house and rape me or burn me alive.

I am going uptown to the bank later. I have enough money to get cash to be able to treat my grandchildren to Santaland and the movies. Odds are a car bomb isn't going to go off while we're at the parade.

There is much in my life that is good. What is good in yours?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great post, Annegb! Hot water and heat ranks pretty high with me! We got a new furnace a couple years ago and it has been great. I am very grateful for friends. I am glad that I have a family that cares about each other. I am grateful that I am feeling a lot better and think I will be able to work tomorrow. I am grateful that I have so much entertainment at my fingertips online and also that we have cable, which has a lot of quality programming. The list could go on and on.....

Ann said...

Blue skies, sunshine, 76 degrees...