Thanksgiving.....

I try to be thankful every day of the year, but today I am especially thankful for:

• Sisters who love me "warts and all," as our mother would say.
• A husband with whom I laugh a lot more often than I argue.
• A daughter who loves to cook. 
• A mother who never let me get too full of myself.
• A brother who would kill do bodily harm for me, even if I didn't find that out until I was in my forties.
• A clean kitchen.
• Enough leftovers for several days of football.
• Football.
• A job that allows me to enjoy a comfortable lifestyle.
• A job.
• A home where I feel safe and happy, even when I don't have enough closet space.
• Good health.
• Short winters and long summers.
• Friends, both in the virtual world and the physical world.
• A warm fire.
• The internet.
• Places all over the globe to experience.
• A home to return to when the globe-trotting is finished.
• Miracles of modern medicine, like those allowing Baby Luke to survive and thrive.
• The colors of changing leaves.
• Freedom.
• Love.