Giving Thanks

Our Thanksgiving was full of good food, good times with family and health and happiness....and we are so thankful for the weekend we had!  We hung out with our WV family - Scott's parents and Jayme and Brooke overnight on Wednesday and had a yummy lunch with them.  After lunch we headed straight to my parents for another yummy dinner.  We are so blessed to be able to spend both holiday's with both families, year after year.

One of the most important qualities I feel that I can instill in my children is that of gratitude.  There is a saying that I have recently come across and it says:  "What if you woke up today with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?"  Doesn't this make you think?  This is one of my main goals as a Mom - to make sure they are appreciative and thankful and to know that they are truly blessed.  It's not easy in this society that we live in, but I will try my hardest until the day I die.  :) 

On Sunday, after a beautiful and special trip into DC with Scott and the kids, we came upon our car with a smashed passenger window and my purse stolen.  Thankfully, all that was in my purse was my planner, some pills and my camera.  Being that it was broad daylight on a Sunday in the middle of the Nation's capital, I don't think they had time to search around my car for other things to steal - thank God.  Sure my first reaction was to cry - not because these things are sooo important to me, but because of all the chaos this would cause (in my already chaotic world) and because I just felt plain violated.  Someone broke into MY car and stole MY stuff.  I'm a sensitive girl and this just doesn't fly with me.  They have since found everything, but my camera, abandoned in bushes about a block from our car.  This kind of ticks me off too - they threw MY stuff in bushes?  Ugh...jerks. 

Sienna, being the Mama's girl that she is, was a little upset, too.  We cheered her up on the way home with talk of the positive things we have to be thankful for and that really helped me too.  Haha.  These are just things - windows, purses, cameras, planners.  They don't define me or my family and they are so easily replaced.  This Thanksgiving, we can thank God for our health, a warm home, happiness, love in our hearts and food on the table.  These are things I hope I wake up with tomorrow.  Everything else is just stuff.  

Sadly, we have no pictures of the weekend..  But we did have a great time and it will be a Thanksgiving to remember for sure.  :)