What are You Thankful for?

Today we all woke up to a wonderful one inch of snow!  It is one pretty sight here on the ranch.   

You all know Thanksgiving is just next week and it's hard for me to believe it.  I am really looking forward to a week of surprises and family fellowship.  I must say, though, that we aren't ready.

I had planned earlier this month that I would do twelve days of Thanksgiving, as in post a thing or person I am thankful for, every day until Thanksgiving.  Well, you can see that I didn't!  I guess there's no time better than the present to do such things.  So...

I am really thankful for my grandparents.  There is so much a girl (or anybody, really) can learn from their life and teachings.  My grandpa, 98 years old, had some health issues recently and is in the hospital, but keeps working so that he can go home.  So, as we have been visiting him and my grandma, I realize just how blessed I am.  I am guilty of thinking that my grandparents and parents are going to live forever, it's not true, though.  I have been realizing that these last few weeks.  You must enjoy every moment you get to spend with family and friends.  I really hope and pray that my grandpa will get to go home soon and live all the number of days he has left in peace and without pain.  I love them so!  I also have another grandma that is such a loving woman.  She makes the best pickles a person could ever eat!  I love her! 

I am really thankful for my family as well.  Dad, Mom, Big J., and Little J.  They are such amazing people to spend my life with.  Thank you for helping me with math, Mom.  Thanks for teaching me all about transplanting plants and growing them, Dad.  Thanks for being good little siblings, even when you don't do what I kindly ask of you, Big J. and Little J.  Thank you for everything you all do.  I love you all dearly. 

I am thankful for all of my critters, but here recently I have found that family is more special.  I still enjoy my critters just as much, though. 

We are so blessed that it would take a longer post to list every little thing that I/we are thankful for, but I wanted to list a few.  I hope you all can be just as thankful this time of year, as well as throughout the years to come.  May you all be blessed this Thanksgiving and realize, as you spend time with friends and family, just how blessed you are.  

God Bless~

Happy Thanksgiving!  From the ranch.  : )