Thursday, November 27, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm thankful for:

* The roof over our heads.
* My girls' continued health and well-being.
* The opportunity to work with smart, kind, and very supportive people every day.
* My ability to raise these girls by myself, with a little help from my family and friends.
* My parents. Really, can't thank them enough.
* Living in SoCal. (read: never having to scrape ice off of my car.)
* Starbucks and a working coffee maker.
* A new administration ('nuff said.)
* Everyone who voted no on 8. (okay, now, enough said.)
* Getting to move into my new office soon.
* Re-connecting with old friends, and making new ones.
* DreamDinners.
* Every opportunity to laugh and smile.
* You - for reading this, for encouraging me to keep writing, for the awards, for your friendship, and for what I learn by reading your corners of the 'net. Blogging has been one of the greatest rewards of the past year and some months. I thank you for inviting me into this community.

Okay, so I get a little sappy sometimes. Indulge me - it's the holidays. May your holiday season be filled with laughter, love, kindness and your own moment (or two) of indulging in sappiness.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! (Even the ones who don't celebrate it.)



(That's our friend Lisa with us. Yes, our family photo has a friend in it. I'm blaming her for the fact that I don't absolutely hate this pic of me.)

11 comments:

Loth said...

Lovely photo, and I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving from a Scot who doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving but feels like she does because she reads so many blogs from over the pond!

FreedomFirst said...

And a Happy Thanksgiving to you too!

Jen said...

And we're all thankful for you, too! Hope you, Riley, Sylvia and your parents have a lovely day!

Tara R. said...

Hope for you and yours to have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Anonymous said...

May your stuffing overflow!

Shiona said...

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you had a great day!

Don Mills Diva said...

Hope you and the girls had a wonderful Thanksgiving April!

Jeff and Charli Lee said...

Those are all good things to be thankful for. Love the picture!

Anonymous said...

The picture is great and is a fantastic representation of the three wonderful women I met yesterday! Happy Thanksgiving...again ;)

Anonymous said...

I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving Day!

Anonymous said...

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