food, crochet, merriment
On an evening like this, it would have easy to take a picture of the beautiful night sky with all the stars shining—or take a close up of the gooey marshmallows roasting over the fire.
To be honest, it never occurred to me.
I was way too busy watching all these dear,
sweet…
happy people doing what we always do….
…just being together.
Family really does make for the best of friends.
The whole darn family under one roof and alllllll at the same time.
This is what a full, happy, heart-full-of-love looks like.
Beyond this…there are no words.
My little granddaughter volunteered to harvest the tomatoes.
Hobbes volunteered to guard her from marauders.
I volunteered to watch them and clap.
Life is good.
So very much to be thankful for this year.
The new exciting things, the old, comfortable things.
A few very, very hard things…
and some incredibly wonderful, happy things.
All, I believe, designed by our loving Heavenly Father to help us stretch and grow and love harder and stronger and ultimately…
to bring us closer to Him.
I am indeed grateful for my sweet home and cute chickens and my dear, dear family….
some of whom may or may not be playing chess…
at the dinner table.
And I love them to bits.
Happy Thanksgiving my friends.
All the regular stuff that’s been going up, here and there for a few years. But this year, it’s pretty dang fun to find new places to put things…in my own little cottage.
Always, always…so much to be thankful for.