Thanksgiving

Last year on Thanksgiving, the family pretty much stayed around the house trying to figure what to do. The news was not good and the prospects did not look good either for another Thanksgiving with me here. We wondered what Christmas would bring after the surgery and the start of whatever treatments were going to take place.

Well that was a year ago and God has been good to us. We had our granddaughter for the first time on Thanksgiving. The 11 of us, Steve, Patti, Heather, Ron, Caleb, Micah, Steve, Stacy, Tyler, Joshua and Mckenna went to Kalahari for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. We had a Thanksgiving feast. There was just about anything you could imagine for food and deserts. We all over ate. It was really just what I said, a feast. And it cost the price of a feast too.

Besides the feast on Thursday, we swam and water sported Wednesday night going up and down stairs to ride the slides and battled the waves at the wave pool. The same on Thursday and Friday up to 3 pm. Patti and I came home wore out. I find swimming is not something I can do and I end up beat up more than I want to. We also went to the Treehouse Fun area and pelted each other with sponge balls from air cannons and just plain throwing them. Again, I am not too bad left handed on the throws, but then again not too good. It was funny watching everyone chasing each other and shooting each other. Other kids there joined in as the rest of the adults seemed like stick in the mud's. When we left several came up to Patti and thanked her for letting them have so much fun.

I thank God this Thanksgiving for being able to be here. Being able to see my grandchildren grow and to play with them. Especially for Mckenna. Watching her grow over these past 9 plus months and seeing her personality start to show thru is fun. I even enjoy babysitting her while the other went on the rides. All in all, I am thankful for the past year and all the small things I think I would have missed had God not slowed me down to enjoy what he has given me.