When you look up Thanksgiving, you find all sorts of searches on the Date of Thanksgiving, the story or history of Thanksgiving, recipes, decorations, traditions, etc. have you ever given a thought of Why You Celebrate this special fourth Thursday of November each year!
Oh yes, for some it’s the beginning of Christmas shopping—all those sale ads hit you in the face. Our kids loved the catalogs that arrived in our mailbox (this was before social media bombarded us). They would find the best pencil they could and begin to surf the pages to circle any toy or item that took their fancy.
To others, it’s the Macy Thanksgiving parade with all the pomp and circumstance of music, dancing, floats, giant balloons! To the guys, it’s football!
For others, this day means family—to our family it is the one day we set aside to enjoy each others company—we might lack one or two members who are celebrating with the other family, but in spirit we are ONE!
This year is no different—about a month ahead, we begin the conversation about who will host the day—who hosted last year—someone never remembers (that’s me) and there is the special one who does! That’s decided—next comes the planning of the meal—who’ll bring what and it’s always their favorite dish. Food is always good no matter if the seasoning is off, recipe is just not right, burnt, under done—we rejoice anyway and no one remembers what it was like last year!
2023 is our extra reason to be thankful on Thanksgiving—we have a new addition to our family. It has been a tough year for him and his parents—our little CDH baby boy is growing up. Now at 9 months, he weighs 20 lbs, hopefully he’ll be home soon from children hospital, after 8 months of his life spent there with caring hands of doctors and nurses. He has endured 10 surgeries, spent several days in NICU or PICU, suffered heart stoppage and being resuscitated but still has that winning smile and demeanor every single day! He is carried by many around the world in their hearts and prayers!
Yes, we are thankful on this Thanksgiving Day for this miracle little boy—
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