Every year at this time, I always take a step back from my hectic, crazy life and think about all of the things that I am thankful for. I’m sure I’m not the only one who does this, but it’s almost therapeutic for me. I get to focus on all of the positive things in my life and give them the recognition and thanks they deserve. You should try it if you haven’t already 🙂
I am thankful for my family. They have been there for me throughout all the good times and the bad. They have been my strength and encouragement through all of the big decisions I have made throughout my whole life. I don’t know where I’d be or who I’d be without you and your support.
I am thankful for my friends. My new ones and my old ones. There has been a distinct strain on the relationships I had in Colorado when I moved to San Francisco. While it has been hard maintaining some of these friendships, it makes me that much more grateful for the friendships that have outlasted and will withstand anything. I am so grateful for the new friendships that are developing (slowly but surely) here in San Francisco. I sincerely look forward to all they will bring me throughout the rest of my life.
I am thankful for my job. I’ve said it before, but I feel like the luckiest girl in the world to have landed this dream job that allowed me to move to my dream city without any real hardships. It is an amazing feeling to wake up every morning loving to go to work.
I’m thankful for my health and my happiness and all of the amazing opportunities that I have been given.
This Thanksgiving is going to be hard for me. I won’t be home for the first time, ever. I won’t spend Thanksgiving around the table with my family. I won’t be sharing stories of the past couple months and reminiscing on last year’s holiday season. I won’t sleep in my bed at home, under the roof of my family home. I won’t go shopping at 4 a.m. with my mom on Black Friday.
I am going to try my very best to create a new Thanksgiving memory for myself here in San Francisco. But being away from home during this holiday has heightened my gratefulness. Instead of just taking Thanksgiving with my family for granted, I truly appreciate and remember the times I have spent with my family and friends throughout the holidays. Now, I will start building my own traditions here. And I can’t wait for year because you bet your bottom dollar I’ll be spending it with my family.
What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving?
I’m thankful for opportunities and the knowledge that *I* am in control of my future.
I’m thankful, too, for amazing friends and family and to have been fortunate enough to meet Pete.
I’m thankful for new friends! (hint hint, I’m looking at YOU!) And the blogging world.
I’m thankful for my BlackBerry, without which I would have no connection to all the wonderful people in my life. (Especially since all personal internet use at work has been banned, even when off the clock… which is when I got all my internetting done so aaaahhhh help!)
I’m mostly thankful, though, for chocolate and Super Nintendo.
Have a very very happy Thanksgiving, lady. You deserve it! I just know whatever traditions you create will be great. 🙂
I AM THANKFUL FOR THE FAMILY AND ENVIRONMENT THAT I GREW UP WITH AND IN; THE WONDERFUL FAMILY THAT I MARRIED INTO AND FOR THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN WHOM I LOVE VERY MUCH; AND LASTLY I AM THANKFUL FOR THE WONDERFUL LIFE THAT I HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH THUS FAR. HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!
I am thankful for both of my wonderful children. I am so thankful that they are both so happy with what they are doing and that they both turned out to be such fabulous young adults. I am so proud of them. I am thankful for my loving wife who drags herself to hockey and basketball games with me, now that my son is off at college. I am also thankful that my parents are alive and, for the most part, well. One of my friends’ mother just passed away and when something like that happens it makes you think.
I am so thankful for you and your brother. You both are my pride and joy, the loves of my life, and I have been so blessed to have been so lucky to be your mother. When I hear things that my friends have gone through with their kids recently (drugs, quitting college) it really puts it all in perspective how blessed I’ve been with the two of you and how wonderful and amazing you both have turned out to be.
I am so thankful for the health of my parents and for the birthdays and special times we get to spend together. I dont want to take for granted any of these moments and appreciate even more everything they have done for me over the years.
I am thankful that I have my health and that I have begun a new journey in my life – it has been a big adjustment between kids leaving and moving within a matter of months of each other but is one that I am looking forward to now that I am getting settled and boxes are unpacked.
I am so thankful for the wonderful family that I have been blessed with and wish we were all together today, but life marches on and we have new experience and things to share when we do get together. David and Jordan are in Canada at a hockey tournament =
Brad and Laurie are at Pat’s and I am home from the hospital and our Lauren is in San Francisco – probably going to have a very spepcial Thanksgiving. I love everyone and wish all the best to come. I, too havea lost a very close friend and it makes me realize how lucky I am.
Aww… I can’t imagine being away from my family during the holidays. They are the primary reason why holidays are awesome for me. 🙁 So yeah, I’m suuuuper thankful for them. 🙂