Just This Side of Yesterday

My husband’s side of the family celebrated Thanksgiving at our home this year. With a house full of people and more food than we could eat, it was a great day and we expressed our thanks in many tangible ways. Hugs were in abundance and love was shared at multiple tables. We gathered around the 92 year old matriarch, remembered it all started with two people who married some 70 years ago and chose to do family well, and we were thankful. We laughed at the youngest … at three years of age a bundle of energy who kept everyone on their toes, and we were thankful. We considered those who traveled many miles to be with us … Houston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Owensboro … and we were thankful. We remembered those who no longer walk this earth, remembered their footprints, and we were thankful. For food, for family, for health, for enough for each day … we were thankful.

But now, just this side of yesterday, I am remembering even more I am thankful for. For the knowledge and skill of our vetenarian who successfully removed the needle from our cat’s stomach the Saturday before Thanksgiving, I am thankful. For neighbors who are not nearly as worried as we are about the HUGE tree in our back yard which (we noticed on Tuesday) is leaning ominously towards their house after the high winds and storm last week, I am thankful. For the neighbor who was ready to call 911 on his cell phone (just in case) as I climbed higher than advised to fix a gutter guard on Wednesday, I am thankful.  For Ed, the plumber, who came after regular hours on Wednesday night to fix a VERY clogged household pipe under the basement floor, I am thankful. And, for the delay (until our guests left) of the damp odor that is now wafting up from the basement (after the flood caused by the clogged pipe), I am thankful.

In and for all things great and small … and just this side of yesterday … I am truly thankful.

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