HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!

I hope you are all thinking of me as you eat your turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy and pie!! I will get back to my flat around 8PM, open a can of soup and curl up with my Carolyn blanket and watch some Little House on the Prairie. Thanksgiving has never been my favorite holiday so it isn't that big of a deal to not be home but it is the feeling that I CAN'T be home that makes it a bit harder. What helps is knowing that I will be home 3 weeks from tomorrow!!

Just a little Thanksgiving note.. a bit personal but I am sure you can relate. Living far away from your family and friends makes the feelings you have for them even stronger. You appreciate even more who you have (not what you have since most of it is in storage) in your life and those who were in your life in the past. Thanksgiving is the day that I take to recognize two very important people in my life. Since my father's mother died on Thanksgiving, I remember her and my grandfather by going to Forest lawn and laying flowers for them. Since I cannot do that, I will ask you all to take a moment and do something special for those around your Thanksgiving table. When you do, you can think of my Grandma Joanne and Grandpa Walden and that will be my flowers to them.

To Jamie, my mom, grandma, grandpa, Tom, Sue, Mike, Renee, Megan, Derrick, and anyone else I might normally see on Thanksgiving, along with all of the rest of my family and friends, I miss you all very much and wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving with all the trimmings!!!!