Thanksgiving is this week. It’s one of my favorite days of the year. It’s not from growing up and enjoying it. In fact, I have few memories of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is all about gratitude. It’s such an easy word with big meaning. What does it really mean to be grateful?
I believe it means knowing and believing that, despite challenges, we are blessed and lucky for all we have. I don’t mean things, necessarily. I’m thinking more about gratitude for health. Gratitude for love and my loved ones and friends. Gratitude for a warm house and food on our plates. So, gratitude really is simple but complex.
Back to Thanksgiving. The day so special because we’ve built our own traditions as a small family, especially when it was just me and Madden. One of the companies I worked for early in my career gave each of us a turkey in advance of Thanksgiving. We made traditional fare and we did it together more and more as Madden got older.
Now add my husband, Rob to the mix. He’s a turkey aficionado. He says he gives the turkey lots of love. And it works!
Add to it part of Rob’s family traditional foods like rice, and add some of mine like sweet potatoes and roasted root veggies.
Another tradition that Madden and I started and that we do now is to go around the table and say what we’re grateful for. It’s one of my favorite traditions.
Most recently, Rob and I tend to travel on this day. That also makes it special for us and has become a bit of a tradition.
But as a family, celebrating Thanksgiving and being together over food is one of the best things. I’m grateful for my little family most of all!
