Thankful

We are a week before Thanksgiving with Christmas carols on the radio, advertisements on the tv and in every store for Christmas. What about Thanksgiving? Has it just become the holiday before Christmas. I love Thanksgiving. I love having a house full of people, enjoy good company and great food. Slowing down to be grateful for the blessings in my life. The PickupMan keeps saying can we just get through Thanksgiving and enjoy it before they shove Christmas in our faces? Don't get me wrong I LOVE Christmas! I enjoy watching Thing1 & Thing2 open gifts and create memories that they will carry with them forever! Personally it is my favorite holiday, I love decorating for it and the smells that come along with the season.
But really do we slow down and take the time to be thankful and grateful for the things that are in our lives?! Thanksgiving was created for that reason. To be thankful for the blessings that have happened all year long. New friendships, old friends, pay raises, new jobs, old job, new adventures, new children, the children we already have, the good grades, the new house, the old house, etc. I think that we have the tendency to get caught up in being prepared for Christmas that Thanksgiving kinda slides under the radar. I am so excited about Thanksgiving this year. We are going to a neighbors house with a few of the other neighbors. Everyone is bringing something to share. This is the first year that I haven't cooked for a house full of sailors! I miss that but I am so excited about this year! Everyone bringing something special to their Thanksgiving to the table.
So I thought I would slow down a little bit and remember the things that I am thankful for this year!

I am Thankful for:
My amazing husband
My great sons
My Family
Friends, my true friends that are the greatest blessing and the new ones that I have made and how wonderful they have been
The fact that we can pay our bills and there is a roof over our heads
The men and women that serve our country so that it can remain a great country where we have a holiday to slow down and be thankful for the fact that we live in a country where there is freedom!
I could go on and on for hours about this, but those are just a few of the many things I am grateful for. Are you really going to slow down and enjoy Thanksgiving or is the Christmas rush pushing it to the side until the day where you cook the turkey and watch football?!?