Thanksgiving it next Thursday! Are you excited? I know I am! I love turkey and stuffing and pumpkin pie! (My oh my do I love pumpkin pie!) Thanksgiving is unusual, though, in that I think it's one of the major holidays here in America that just doesn't get enough attention. We eat for a day, lie around groaning, and then IT'S TIME FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!
Wait. Stop.
What is Thanksgiving for? Just the eating?
Well, it does all surround the eating, because it was the Pilgrim's way of celebrating that a) they had food, and b) they weren't dead. So yes, the eating is central, but so is the giving thanks for things, like not being dead. And having food.
So ends our somewhat skewed history lesson, and begins ....
My List of Things I'm Thankful For This Year!
1. Family and Friends
2. My house
3. Books, my own and other people's. (Especially Under Heaven, Jane, and the Sookie Stackhouse books)
4. Movies, particularly Toy Story 3 and How To Train Your Dragon
5. Dark Chocolate Peanut M&M's
6. Pumpkin pie, cookies, breads, and muffins
7. Stephen's Hot Sipping Cocoa
8. My new poodle jammies (Thanks, Jenn!)
9. My husband and I both have cars
10. I've been on four vacations this year: Romania, Las Vegas, Disneyland, and The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. It's been amazing!
11. My dishwasher might be loud, my clothes washer might occasionally smell funky, but by dang I'm not washing dishes or clothes by hand, and I am eternally grateful!
12. As of this moment, no one in our house has thrown up for 18 hours!
13. Boy has discovered LEGOs, Harry Potter, and Indiana Jones.
14. Boy can read
15. Cynthia Rylant's book, In November
16. The Charlie Brown Holiday Specials (Will anything ever be better than the Great Pumpkin? Or Snoopy making toast and popcorn for Thanksgiving, then pulling out an entire meal for himself and Woodstock after the kids leave?)
17. Shaun the Sheep
18. The Parasol Protectorate
19. My bed. (It's big and soft and warm!)
20. Baby Girl can talk!
And that's just to begin with!
If you're looking to get into that Thanksgiving mood, try these: 'Twas the Night Before Thankgsiving by Dav Pilkey, In November by Cynthia Rylant, The Thanksgiving Treasure by Gail Rock (out of print, but worth finding), A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Saturday, November 20, 2010
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SO jealous of #20. Sigh. I'll be thankful he is healthy and has a good, strong personality instead.
wow your are thankful for alot of things! I guess we all should be since God gave us soooooo many things!
Dear Jessica. This really has nothing to do with your post, but, I'm really in to one of your seires, the DRAGON SLIPPER seires. I LOVE LOVE LOVE that seires! I just finished DRAGON SPEAR. And guess what, I don't meen to brag but, I just started it today, and, finished it today I loved it so much! I'd LOVE it if you you'd keep going with that I would really apreasheate if you would continue with that seires, your "Nose In Book" friend, Molly
P.S. Sorry if some of my spelling isnt the best. I want to be a author some day, well, Bye Jessica! I'm your number 1 fan for the "DRAGON SLIPPER" seires, Bye! Oh.. P.S.S. Please just type me back on this, or, a diffrent coment or post, I'll look at it here again, please don't show anyone my email, well, here's a final goodbye! Bye! Molly
Your skewed history lesson made me chortle. It really is about the eating and not being dead. Hehe.
Great list of gratitudes. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Hi, me again, Im working on a book, the first one was atully just a school asignment, but now im doing a seires for fun! Its kind of a copying thing, but, you know, it's for the class to read. Well, Bye!
Oh, by the way, my name isnt Molly, Bye!
#3: I am thankful for your books too :)
HAPPY THANKSGIVIG EVERYBODY!!!!!
Please post me Jessica. Do any of you know how to email her or somthing?
Molly,
If you go to the top of the page, and click on About-Contact, you can email me!
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