It's Cliche, I Know...

Happy Thanksgiving, one and all!

I plan to spend the day eating fabulous food (TWO thanksgiving meals...oh yes...) with fabulous people and generally being thankful.

I thought in the spirit of a fabulous holiday (although many would accuse me of bypassing Thanksgiving for Christmas), I would show my appreciation and love by making a post dedicated to the things in this world I am thankful for:

1. My Family: who genuinely likes to be around each other and who prefers to face the world with humor rather than sap or anger.  It's made life much more fun.

2. My Friends: who understand me, who are always there for me, who will act ridiculous with me and laugh at me, even when my jokes aren't funny, because they know I need it.

3. My Owen: my now 17 pound baby, who bites my face every morning and knocks everything off of every surface.  It just doesn't get better than that.

4. My Job: it's a good one, with good people and generally I really like being there.  You just can't ask for more than that.

5. My Students: who keep me constantly entertained, laughing and challenged and who also teach me a thing or two from time to time. For instance, did you know that you can go cat fish fishing with your bare hands? Apparently it's called noodlin'. Sounds like a party.

6. My Church: who I firmly believe is doing the will of God and striving everyday to be the way churches were intended to be.

7. My Sense of Humor: I've discovered lately there are a lot of people walking around the world without one and that is just sad.  Calm down world and laugh a little bit, even if it's not absolutely hilarious, you will thank yourself later.

8. The Beginning of the Christmas season: because contrary to my mother's beliefs, it is the happiest time of the year. Although, I'll be honest, I refuse to recognize Black Friday as any variety of occasion. I will spend the day tucked in bed until a reasonable hour, then I'm going to the comic book store's post-Thanksgiving sale to try and start my X-Men readings. Chew on that people who ruin Christmas with their commercialism!!

Well that's all I have today folks, sorry I have no excellent Thanksgiving tales to tell you, but it is always good to spend some time thanking God for the blessings in your life...because today it's especially important to remember that our lives are not extraordinarily average when compared to the rest of the world, rather we are extraordinarily blessed.

Peace, Love and the Macy's Parade,
Claire