Thanksgiving was a bit over a week ago, and I was going to do a post about Gratitude… but instead I skipped! It isn’t that I’m not grateful; life is just so full of things to be grateful for, I didn’t make time to write.
I am particularly grateful that I had both of my adult children home for Thanksgiving. My son is currently here quite a bit, but my daughter lives and works at a wilderness camp way up on the Gunflint Trail of NE Minnesota. The lakes up north are already frozen over, so we were both grateful that we had a nice fall day on which she could carry the canoe across the road to explore the Kain’s slough with me! Two days later the slough froze over, and a few days later I got
to see the beauty of the first snow under a full moon. I’m grateful for our seasons, and that each day brings something new.
Many of you know that my parents called this place “home” for many years. My mom now resides in an assisted living memory care unit in Wisconsin. I am grateful that my sister has been able to bring her over here a couple of times recently. It is somewhat confusing to mom to have the familiar setting of the old homestead, but the old farmhouse is gone and the new house here isn’t hers. She enjoyed just sitting in a comfortable chair to watch the birds at the feeder or the fire in the fireplace. I’m so grateful that she is still mobile enough to take out of the facility, and that we finally have the new house accessible and safe to bring her to.
I have also learned that weekly for a blog post is too often… I’m going to target biweekly for my posts from now on. Because of the ambiguity of American grammar, that could be either twice a week or every other week; I’m also grateful for the freedom to be flexible!
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