Thankful Thursday

Thank you Lord for my family. Not just because it is Thanksgiving Day, but on every day I am thankful for the strongest, most supportive family I could ever dream of being a part of. I am blessed beyond anything I have ever deserved. I am thankful for supportive parents that rearrange their entire lives to let their daughter and her newborn baby move in and redecorate their beautiful antique themed home in baby swings and spit up rags for a few months. I am thankful for a strong sister that listens to all my fears and concerns no matter how big or small and gives wisdom that only she can give. I am thankful for a brother that keeps life interesting and always finds a way to make me laugh. I am thankful for a daughter that makes me slow down every day in this busy world and concentrate on what really matters in life. And I am more than thankful for a husband that is voluntarily willing to give up the comforts of home and time with his new family to defend our Homeland and provide for his family, no matter how far away we are. This year, I see life through different eyes. This year, I see all that I am blessed with through the eyes of a mother, a military wife, and a proud American. So, thank you family. And thank you to all those who continue to sacrifice the average life to be above average so that I can sit here tonight and hold my baby girl, knowing that I am safe and free.

I would like to share with you a quote by Abraham Lincoln that Barefoot Daydreams reminded me of today on her blog.

“The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God…

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I…fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.”
-Abraham Lincoln

Thank you Kathryn for sharing this.


And I have to share this... because who can resist a cute baby picture? No thanks needed. Your welcome! ;)



Happy Thanksgiving!