Today I load up my two youngest children and head to Memphis afterschool. It is their Dad’s year to be with on Thanksgiving in Arkansas. I have often been able to be with other family and friends during the holidays even if the children were absent, but this year is a new year for us…Les and I will be at home alone. Home is a good place to be for us, but I keep remembering Thanksgivings of long ago when the house bustled with many family or we went to one of our family’s homes for time with them.
This weekend we rearranged the living room to make more conversational seating and to get ready for the Christmas tree to go up. We seem to have more and more “drop ins” of my son’s teenaged friends and I like them to be able to sit and visit awhile. The more self serving reason is that when I am sad, making something pretty always cheers me up. I love to make things ‘just so” in our home, though I am not a neat person by nature….its too often an all or nothing deal with me….perfectionism rears its head….
and so…
I am determined to do what I can where I am, with what I have this Thanksgiving. Dress the table pretty and make a special meal for the two of us….light the candles and enjoy the fireplace….go see the Huntsville Botanical Garden Holiday lights….share that piece of pie and feed my husband bite by bite….and most of all savor that we are blessed….and are thankful for all that God provides…
