So Thankful

I really and truly am thankful for my many blessings.

I had a wonderful Thanksgiving post planned, but I worked yesterday and I work

tomorrow and there is only so much that I can pack into my days. I try hard to preserve

these memories that we are making, but I think it is more important that we are

making them in the first place....right?

Tonight I spent a little bit of time loving on each girl while we made some yummy treats for tomorrow. Kamiryn and I made pumpkin chocolate chip squares, Madison and I measured and stirred up a batch of Muddy Buddies, I assisted Danelle as she tackled a caramel pecan cheesecake and I kept Miranda company while she made her traditional pumpkin pie. I think that this is her 4th or 5th year making the pumpkin pie!

Amazingly I still had a lot of patience left after an already exhaustingly long week day. We had a great time together and now I don't feel so bad about going off to work for 8 hours tomorrow. I will get to have Thanksgiving dinner with my family after I get off of work at 4:00. I found this heartfelt prayer in today's paper so I thought instead of trying to convey my feelings in my own words (I am too tired to be original right now) I would share this with you. Have a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING everyone.

Thanksgiving prayer from Dear Abby's Mother
Written by her mother Pauline Phillips:

Oh, Heavenly Father,
We thank thee for food and
remember the hungry.
We thank thee for health and
remember the sick.
We thank thee for freedom and
remember the enslaved.
May these remembrances
stir us to service.
That thy gifts to us may be
used for others. Amen.