thankful

The past year has been difficult for all of us, but we also have much to be thankful for.

No matter what difficulties have come our way, we are lucky and we know it.

So last night we went to help prepare a Thanksgiving meal for the homeless. We helped peel and chop 1000 pounds of potatoes. Today, the professor and I are going back to help serve, while Punk and Kooka are in Wisconsin.

And even though it is pretty hard to be without your kids on Thanksgiving, as long as they keep growing into the kind of people who can peel vegetables until midnight to help another human being - I will always have something to be thankful for.