Thanksgiving.... It is how you look at it.

Most holidays are so commercialized these days that it is just a mirage of what the holiday originally was all about. Thanksgiving is one in which, other than the food, can't really be commercialized, Thank God.

There are certain things about the holiday though that are drastically different then the way it used to be 100 or 200 years ago. Thanksgiving didn't used to be about football for instance. Instead it was a day for prayer and thanking God for all that he had blessed us with. Not that Prayer and Thanksgiving isn't a part of Thanksgiving for many families still, but in many families the prayer time is a simple one minute or less time at the beginning of the meal, a meal that took hours to make....

I heard on the radio the other day that depression in reality has nothing to do with the chemicals in the brain necessarily like the drug companies want us to believe, but that it is the direct result of not being thankful for that which we have already.

My day so far is nothing that one might be thankful for.... A clinging three year old who wants to be held cause she is wearing a patch..... a screaming 4 month old..... and a burnt breakfast that I even had to go borrow eggs from the neighbor to make..... but here's the truth. Thank you God for the clinging three year old that you have blessed us with to lead through the tough road.... Thank you for the four month old that might be screaming now, but is such a huge part of our life that we wouldn't want it any other way..... and thank you for the food that there would be food for us to accidentally burn, and also that we don't have to worry and fret over it because there is still more than enough to eat.

Thanksgiving...... It is more about how you look at the situation than the situation itself.

Now Yesterday.... Thanksgiving itself, we spent at Grandma and Grandpa Tombaughs. Randall, Takako and Jude are in town, and we had a full house. I will update the family stuff in a little bit.