Pride Comes Home

We have had another thankful day(s) as we should. We need to put aside our troubles and enjoy the season and that's what we did...until today. Hubby has been feeling a little under the weather and, as all you married ladies are aware, that is not fun. Anyway, we are so thankful for all the wonderful blessings that fill our lives. It's tough to take the bad with the good and we sometimes tend to let the bad overshadow all our blessings. I just have to stop and recall those blessings. And, we do have plenty, two in particular: our younger son and his wife are expecting their first child next summer and our oldest granddaughter and her hubby are expecting their first child in the late Spring (a girl I recently learned). Now, how can we allow the bad to overshadow such wonderful blessings from God? Don't we get in some unhappy ruts occasionally?

I hope that all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, that all of you stayed well and happy. I went shopping on Black Friday as so many of my friends did. I am so glad that we didn't see any such mobs as there were in Long Island where the employee was trampled to death when he opened the Walmart store there. The shooting in the store in California was also a horrid event, leaving both shot to death. This is a season of happiness, thankfulness, and loving our family and friends. What is wrong with people? I went in the marketplace today and this young man offered to let me break in line in front of him (which I didn't); then her took my basket and placed on the counter so that I wouldn't be taxed with such a load. Now, that is a wonderful example of the Thanksgiving season! There is only one sad thing about that picture: am I at the age where others see me as an elder who needs assistance? I remember doing such things for older adults thinking they would be grateful, which they were, but yet making them feel helpless. Now I know how Mother must have felt when I would take her arm to help her and she would politely remove my arm. Hmmm...pride comes home to all of us.