Thanksgiving

 Thanksgiving. The one day a year when all you do is get together with family and eat all day long! The turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, pies... so delicious. When I hear the word thanksgiving thats all I really think about... the food and the people. Thats all us  Americans were thinking about last week. We were all getting sad and it was kind of the first time we really felt homesick- thinking about all our families and all the food we were going to miss out on. It was hard for the first while to think about it but then I realized some stuff. Thanksgiving. The word itself just means giving thanks. To give thanks is to appreciate someone or something- so why don't we do this more often? I mean really- why don't we give thanks more often? The bible calls us to be thankful no matter what the circumstances. Philippians 4:6 says that we should "not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." So that means every time we pray about anything- we should present it with a thankful attitude. And the awesome thing is... God is the creator of the universe, the creator of us, and the creator of everything we have- so we'll never run out of things to be thankful for! So really... I want every day to be thanksgiving! No matter what food I'm eating, no matter what clothes i'm wearing, no matter where I am in life- I will be thankful :) But in the end, we got a wonderful thanksgiving dinner full of stuffing, turkey, dinner roles, mashed potatoes, pies, and even cranberry sauce! It was a lot of work- but with 18 girls in the kitchen.... all things are possible. So truly I have a lot to be thankful for and I am especially thankful for a wonderful thanksgiving meal!

We aren't pregnant- just really full of good food!