I'm thankful for...
1) Family and friends who invite me to spend Thanksgiving with them.
2) And for family and friends who understand when - due to weather and non-weather reasons - I opt to spend a quiet cocooning day at home.
3) A 10" pumpkin pie (made with Libby's pumpkin, of course, Libby) in the oven to eat all by myself while cocooning.
4) Cool Whip to put on said pumpkin pie. (Yes. Cool Whip. Which could have been #1 if I wasn't trying to be sentimental today.)
5) Musical theater, for its promise and joy.
6) Sunny snowy days, because there is nothing so glorious as a blue-skied day with white snow on everything. (I'll gripe about it later when I'm freezing cold while shovelling - which I'm already tired of doing even though it's only November.)
7) Real mail.
8) Phone calls.
9) Hand-made afghans and quilts.
10) And scarves. (Yes, even when the fuzzy yarn gets caught in my beard.)
11) See's Candy kiosks in the malls around the Holidays, even though the candy isn't quite as good as when it used to show up in a box from California along with lemons and avocados.
12) Warm flannel pajama pants.
13) Stores that are CLOSED on major holidays.
14) Programmable thermostats.
15) Tear-jerking Holiday commercials. (Which I prefer, frankly, when I'm alone.)
16) Stumbling across great old movies while scrolling channels on the TV.
17) Full-sugar, full-caffeine Coca-Cola.
18) The fact that there are different sizes of canned black olives. Not just different sizes of cans, but actual different sizes of olives. (I have a can of "Colossal" olives in the kitchen right now to put on my fingers later today.)
19) Dr. Seuss.
20) The fact that Christopher comes home in a couple of days - and that I simply have him in my life to miss when he's gone.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Thanks to all of you for reading!
1 comment:
I think I'm going to cry at that last one! See you soon, hon!
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