Giving Thanks!

So it's Thanksgiving time, truly a time to stop what you are doing and give thanks!  Give thanks to anything and everything, and for me I have so much to give thanks for, as last year during this time I was in a pretty low place living with my brother, being in so much pain all the time. 
I still am in pain, but I now have my own place, and it is down the shore! You can't beat that, only for having that house on the ocean that I want, filled with my children, family, and friends coming and going all the time.  And I have three wonderful, amazing, loving, compassionate children that still enjoy seeing me, and sharing holidays with me.  
Thanksgiving has changed for me and my children the past few years, having some family issues on my side.  It's all good, just shows that our energies are changing, shifting, and I release and let it all go in love and light.  I do not take situations like that personal anymore, and cry and ask, why me?  Now it's more like, okay, no problem, all the work I am doing on myself is working, I am shifting, only to a higher vibration, and it is all good.  It is all great, actually.  
So, yesterday I had Thanksgiving Dinner with my son and one daughter, and it was a beautiful day.  I have six brothers, a huge family, with lots of children, and love 20 plus people around on holidays, so only a few is totally different.  But I realized how blessed I am to be with my children, my small family, and glad they love me and want to be with me.  I am pretty much all they have as a parent, as their Dad is out of the picture for now, not very healthy, and we send him prayers of love and light daily, along with his three year old daughter, that we all love dearly!
I had a great Thanksgiving day, we had it at my son's new apartment, he just moved in a few months ago.  I cooked all day, while he attended to his new, adorable, husky puppy!  
       It was a truly nice, calm, happy day, as my son is usually pretty happy and positive with me.  My oldest daughter came and had dinner with us, my other daughter decided to spend it with her boyfriend and his family again.  We had the regular traditional menu we always have, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, broccoli and cavatelli, string bean casserole, and of course the cranberry sauce.  We made awesome stuffed mushrooms with creamed cheese, and and awesome spinach dip with artichokes and water chestnuts, for appetizers, they were both so good! I baked apple pie and chocolate pudding pie for dessert, and made organic rice pudding as well.  
My oldest daughter hung out for a few hours, loved the puppy, and then left.  I stayed awhile longer, and didn't get home until 10:30, totally exhausted.  Woke up today pretty tired, decided to just chill out, rest and stick around here.  I ran an errand and got some more Christmas shopping done, and it was pretty quiet around here for black Friday, it truly is a different way of life than Bergen County!