Thanksgiving

This year is the first year I am missing the Willard Thanksgiving reunion. Having said that, I hardly realize it's Thanksgiving at all. I don't really feel a loss, but more like there's nothing to lose as we aren't having a Thanksgiving dinner, nor are we getting together with family. So, happy Thanksgiving to all of you, and I will have to wait another year to see my dad's side of the family.

I want to say that a few of the things I am most grateful for at this time are good health and opportunity. No one in my family has been sick for a very long time. I thank and pray for good health everyday for my family. I am very mindful of that blessing and I do not take it for granted. I personally have not been sick since I was in the Hospital last March. I felt the sickest I'd ever felt in my life at that time. I knew I was not going to die, but I felt the closest that I ever have, and I remember thinking in the Hospital that if it weren't for my family, I would have been ok with it. That's how sick I felt. My body was overtaken with a sickness so powerful, I had not experienced anything like it before. It came and went quickly, but it was the worst I have ever felt physically. I have not been sick since then. Marcelus has not had the flu since last winter, so it's been about a year. I am so grateful Phoenix is a healthy baby with no complications and he has not really ever been sick yet. The Lord has blessed us with good health for some time now.

I also said that I was grateful for opportunity. Right now could be a turning point for our little family. Good opportunities are always out there. Sometimes they work out, and sometimes they don't and you try again. We will see what lies in store for us, and move on with life regardless of the path, but I am grateful for the opportunities that come to us in the first place.

Happy Thanksgiving and I'm looking forward to a very Merry Christmas and a New Year! I love those fresh beginnings!