Forever Young: So Thankful

Thanksgiving weekend was wonderful this year. The kiddos were off school on Wednesday and we spent all day preparing for our traditional Thanksgiving Eve dinner with Lawrence's family. Our turkey turned out perfect and we had a nice relaxing night after enjoying a wonderful meal with everyone. On Thanksgiving Day we had no where to be - that's a first! We spent the rainy day in our cozy house, putting up Christmas decorations while the kids watched the final season on DVD of their all time favorite show - 7th Heaven. Friday morning Lawrence and I rose at 3:30 am to head out for "Black Friday." We had never been to any of the Black Friday sales, so we decided this would be the year we saw what all the hype is about. We arrived at the St. Matthews Target at 4:00 am to find a line of people stretched around the building - it was crazy! We shopped until 5:00 and came home and went back to bed. Did we get any good deals? Who knows, but we made a memory and crossed that activity off our "bucket list." Later that morning we headed to Russell Springs for Thanksgiving lunch with the Lacy family. This was the first year all my cousins and their children were there at the same time. We had lunch for 39 people! We had a great afternoon visiting and being together. God bless my mom for how much cooking she did! On Saturday night, after a busy day of basketball games and a swim meet, we gathered at Lawrence's dad's house for one final Thanksgiving dinner. Dinner was delicious, but by the end of the night we were stuffed - three dinners in four days (plus some leftovers!) was plenty. We are turkeyed out! We have much to be thankful for, on Thanksgiving and every other day of the year.