Thanksgivings Gone By

I miss my Carter family that I spent 15 Thanksgivings with. Those were my favorite thanksgivings!  We would see cousins and Aunts and Uncles.  Grandmas and Grandpas.  We said what we were thankful for, we wrote on a table clothe every year, we road four wheelers and went to the movies.  Sometimes we did  crafts after that.  I loved those holidays!  My Aunt Sandy and Uncle Gene put a lot of work into something we just walked into and enjoyed.  Yesterday I spent half the day preparing and pre-gaming!  But thinking of my kids and my sweet grandkids, I was enjoying every bit of it!  Today I’m stuffing my face, enjoying my sweet husband, loving on my kids and playing with my grandbabies and missing those that are no longer with us and those we can't spend our holiday with.  Just because life changes and we do things in a different place, in a different way, or with different people, doesn’t make it a bad thing.  It’s how the world works, and why you should be thankful for what you had then and what you have now.