Thanksgiving

In just a few hours we will be celebrating a day of thanks. But that should be everyday not just on the  fourth
Thursday of November. I find myself being somewhat sad. Why? I ask myself, you have everything to be thankful for...health, wonderful husband who is so faithful to me, food on the table, able to hold a second job ( although I fuss all the time!), pay my bills; you  get the picture. But as I remember of those days when  when we had children that times were spent with family at someones home. Now we try to find a good restaurant to eat then come home to watch football....honey loves the Cowboys!
As a child, mother would cook the most wonderful turkey dinner, my dad loved her cooking as I did. She taught me so many things that are still ingrained in me. As I get older I realize what a wonderful mother and father I had.  I will have to post another time on her.
But back to thanksgiving, when honey and I married we never stayed at home for holidays, off we would go in our rickety car, driving all night or day to their homes,where we would find such wonderful smells , warm beds and arms of comfort. Maybe that is what I miss now, the arms of comfort.  Our day of Thanksgiving or Christmas were filled of eating, napping, playing games and watching the children play with their toys.
It has been many years that that has happened. Now our children each have their own families ,traditions to establish , while living so far away. We at this point of our lives should be going to their homes but due to circumstances we cannot. That I feel is so sad. I would love to feel the arms of my children, my grandchildren but that is not to be.
The times that we are living in seem to make us farther apart or have we let it happen? Time will tell.
So this Thursday, November 24, 2011, we will spend with honeys family. We will feel the hugs of their grandchildren, wishing for ours. We will enjoy it because we are thankful for the Love of God, His grace that has kept us, saving us so that we can one day we  can be with those that have gone ahead of us.
 Vann,  along with my parents, honeys parents, grandparents, are missed so much that we do feel sad.
 I am Thankful that God allowed me to mother three children, Windy, Vann and Jeff, be a wife to my husband of 52 years, be an example to others of what the love of Christ can do for them.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL.