This week will find many of us celebrating Thanksgiving, a day which is at once a secularized American harvest festival and a day to remember everything we have to be grateful for.  Many of us will be either serving or partaking in a feast which is a wonderful act of sympathetic magic as by preparing so many dishes not only are we celebrating the bounty of the earth but we are showing the Divine that we trust that we can feel safe putting so much of our stores into just one meal. That we will have “enough” to see us through the dark months of the year.

I am grateful for the side-project at my work that has allowed me to earn a few hundred dollars “extra” over the past couple of weeks. 

I am grateful for the knowledge that Miss Artistic will help me prepare Thanksgiving dinner, as she does every year, and that Princess Nibbles is excited about being given more important tasks this year, suited to her “I’m 9, I’m not a little kid anymore” status.

I am grateful that Princess Nibbles has managed to cling (albeit desperately) to her belief in Santa for another year, even though I’m a little sad that I really have to break the bad news (that I’m fairly certain she expects anyway) before next year.

I am grateful that Miss Artistic has fairly quickly forgiven me for “ruining her life” by working out a regimin with the Child Study Team at her school intended to help me help her stay more on top of her homework assignments.

I am grateful that I have managed to compile a small collection of rather cool presents so far for this Yule.  I am trying to find things they will really love and not focus as much on “filler” kind of things.  I am trying to find novel and unique items and trying to patiently wait for sales on said choices.

I am grateful that I have the day off for Thanksgiving.  It will mark the end of working 25 days straight, nothing compared to my 83 day stint earlier this year, but still fatiguing.  Yes it stinks that I will not be paid for the holiday, but I can make up nearly all of my hours working a little later on the days I do go in on.

I am grateful for my friends.  I am grateful for my father (despite his Mr Grumpy personality).  I am grateful for GamerDude who I met over 23 years ago.  I am grateful for my girls.

Please post in our forum and share what you are most grateful for this year.

Blessings

Mama Kelly

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