Thanksgiving Day......

A time to reflect, Thanksgiving Day, our whole nation gets a four day weekend, and we eat a lot of food.
I think that we need a time to reflect and to give thanks.  It is a time for us to stop in our tracks and be with friends and family.

It has been a tough seven years for my wife and me.  We took care of Della's dad in our home.  I am thankful for her strength and our joint commitment to do the right thing taking care of her father. We are pretty much in a relationship of concrete to have done that.  It was a new beginning for us to fly to Maine, to be out of our home, and to see life is still going on out there.  I am grateful for her, as she keeps me balanced, slows me down, and to smell the roses.  I should buy her some roses, shouldn't I. We been married 25 years now and it just seems like yesterday.  I am so grateful for her being by my side.

This is a photo of our boys and their wives this summer in Maine, posing for a wedding photo of our youngest son.  I am thankful for their lives and what they have become.  We don't see our guys as often now as they have moved on and grown up.  i appreciate them and their wonderful wives.  It has taken only two years to add two girls to out family.  We are a family of six now. It hasn't quite sunk in yet but we have a lot to look forward to in the coming years.

I am grateful for many things, but I am pleased to have friends all over the world.  It is a pleasure to be able to share life with all of you. To those who are celebrating Thanksgiving, I hope you have a happy day and to those who don't celebrate this day, I hope you have a special day anyway.  Thanks for reading...