Happy Thanksgiving 2018

I wanted to take a few minutes out of my busy morning to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! My day started at 5 AM this morning with food preparation and will continue all morning long. Yesterday I spent 3 1/2 hours in the kitchen making homemade bread, dinner rolls and a few desserts. Thankfully (pun intended) I do enjoy cooking and baking, I just hate the clean-up!

Later this afternoon a few members of our family will be joining us for a holiday dinner. I’m really looking forward to enjoying a good meal and good company.

When our daughter was little we started a family tradition. Every Thanksgiving after dinner we would give her a new Christmas tree ornament and a small “early” holiday gift. When she graduated college and moved out on her own…she had a Christmas tree full of ornaments that had been collected over the years! Now that we’re grandparents…the tradition continues with our two grandchildren.

After dinner later today each of our grandchildren will receive a store-bought Christmas tree ornament and 2 ornaments that I made for them. So, every year they are getting 3 new ornaments to display on their family tree now and once they get out on their own…they’ll have a ton of them to decorate their own holiday trees. They will each get a little gift and then my husband will sit down to read them a holiday book.

Thanksgiving is a great reminder to be thankful for everything good in our lives. I’m thankful for my family, health, friends and the wonderful readers here on the TCC blog. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!!!