Thankful

Happy post Thanksgiving! Lori and I had a most wonderful and fulfilling Thanksgiving Day. We both cooked and prepared for family and friends to create a tasty meal. Ham for me and turkey for Lori. We had fun listening to worship music. I had some "old" Morris Chapman albums, and Lori played Mercy Me and other more contemporary. I took some pictures of the food and people started arriving at 2:30 pm. My daughter Stacey was the first with her boyfriend Eric's two daughters. Eric arrived shortly after and our close friend Lorraine came next. We missed Willie this year. He went to the coast to spend the holiday with his family. My brother worked at home with someone he had contracted to sheetrock a room. In the afternoon Lori and I passed the phone back and forth talking to my son David and his wife Amanda. Amanda was hosting Thanksgiving for her family in their newly rented home. We miss them very much! It will be great to see them when we go to visit at Christmas time. Our home is still on the market and no one is looking at it. It doesn't bother me and we still have several months until we hit our window for moving to Hawaii. I recently started a "Classmates.Com" account along with "Facebook" and "MySpace". There are a lot of people I've lost track of over the years. It has been nice to get connected again. I hope this will be the year I am able to reconnect with my youngest daughter and granddaughter. I've seen them around Redding. It's hard to honor her wishes and not contact them. My granddaughter is so beautiful and five years old.

Lori just got up and it's time to have breakfast. It is a relief to put these thoughts down and not get into politics as we do on our Flickr page. I pray for a good finish to the year for all. I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.