Thomas will be coming home for Thanksgiving. I’m looking forward to him being here. Our last visit was cut short by his behavior so hopefully we won’t have a repeat of that. For forever now we put our Christmas Tree up the day after Thanksgiving. It’s now become Thomas’ “thing” to do with me. The girls help out don’t get me wrong, but it’s definitely my son who call this shots about the tree and the skirt and the ornaments and the star on top and the stockings… The older girls get into hanging up “their” ornaments like the ones I have from when they were babies or made at school. I love those. Oh and the girls like setting up the Nativity.
I’d like to get a live tree this year. I’ve always been against it, paranoid of the tree drying out and being set on fire by the lights. Yes that’s how my mind works. Tommy and I discussed it and we will go tree shopping the day after Thanksgiving with Thomas. How could we go without him?
I’m getting ahead of myself though, I’m talking about Christmas trees and the day after Thanksgiving but not Thanksgiving. We are hosting at our house. It will be really nice as my Mom and I split the cooking and it works out great as nobody gets overwhelmed. Hmmmm I guess I don’t have much to say about Thanksgiving except I am thankful for my family, my church family, my friends, that I am free to worship and that I get to worship the one true God.
Maybe that’s why I’m so eager to skip over to Christmas. The songs about Jesus birth. I love them. Especially the ones that command, “Come and worship!” Of course I like the regular winter themed songs and Rudolph but the reason is Christ’s birth and we should sing about His birth and worship him.
I’m looking forward to this week. My son being home, Thanksgiving and then…The tree. The tree that Thomas can’t wait for every year.
Menay O; mom to 4, Christian and thrift shopper on the side... 