Thanksgiving 2010

It is so fun to watch how on Thanksgiving everyone goes around saying what they are thankful for.  I like to hear what each person says.  Today around our table there were many different things.  There was being thankful for food, for grace, for salvation, for being able to still move at such an old age, and there was being thankful for a life that is still impacting others even though she is in heaven. 

We spend the holidays with the Neymans each year.  Mrs. Neyman has always cooked the whole meal.  I mean the whole thing.  Last year Paul offered to cook the turkey and she said go for it.  So he did and he kept up the tradition this year.  It is so fun to spend the day with family.  We had little Maggie there today, and she is turning one in two days.  Maggies great-grandparents were there and I learned that she shares a Birthday with her great-grandaddy.  Her great-grandaddy had his first grandchild and first great-grandchild born on his Birthday.  I thought that was just too neat.  Isn't that just like the Lord to bless a man like that?

Family.  What really is the definition of family?  Holidays brings out the true definition.  Around our table today we had family that was related by blood and family related by marriage and family related by just being added to the family table.  With our family being a blended family the word family means soo much more than just being blood related.  I praise the Lord for our family.  Without the Lord in the center of our family we would not have been able to sit around the table today and be blessed with each other.  It takes a special grace and mercy to reach out to others who happen to come into ones life.  The Neymans have taken in Brad and I as if we were there own, and for that I am truly thankful.  They have truly given of their hearts by accepting us into the family.

Today also marks the first Thanksgiving without mom.  I have missed her alot today.  I kept thinking all day that she was at B's this year.  I miss her crazy meals she used to cook.  I miss her rambling on on the phone.  Oh, to have one more phone call.  To hear her laugh, to watch her paint, to take her to the vitamin shoppe. 
The thing that keeps me going is knowing without a shadow of a doubt mom is in heaven having a ball.  She could NOT sing, so I know she is up there right now singing her heart out.  She once told me a story of how she would go to bed early just so she could sing before Martha came in.  We'll she is singing now!!!  I love ya mom and miss ya.