Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I love it that it is all about family (or friends) and great big feasts. I love the food; I can hardly wait for a bite of this year’s turkey and chilled cranberry sauce. I love it that it is a time to celebrate what we have in our lives, who we have in our lives, and where we are in our lives. I love it that the feast usually starts early and there is plenty of time to visit. I love the conversations and the easy chatter about the coming holiday season. I love it that it’s cold enough outside to have a fire inside. I love it that Thanksgiving is a day that we all pause to come together and simply enjoy one another’s company.
This year I will be celebrating with my family in northern California. I can’t wait; it has been too long since our last visit. The weather there is in the low 60’s which means I’ll be packing layers! I am looking forward to the trip. My children can hardly wait for all the time they will be spending outside, running free. We are so elated to have a break from our busy school schedules.
I am grateful for my life. I feel truly blessed for the loved ones in my family, for my children, my husband. I am grateful for my friends who consistently meet me with an open heart, make me laugh and inspire my creativity. I am also grateful to you, my reader, for taking the time to check in on Joy Discovered once a week. Thank you to so many of you who leave comments. So many times I am touched by what has been added to the discussion; the extra clarity, support, and joy is what keeps me coming back to write more. I am grateful to the friends I’ve made through the wires. Connection is so vital to who I am; I am grateful for the love and support that flows between us all as we criss-cross each other’s blogs.
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope it is a blessed and joyous event for each and every one of you!
With love, Jodi
Hi Jodi,
I think your signature really sums this all up so, so well…”with love”…
That is a feeling I always get when I visit here. One based on love and caring. It is a part of who you are. I guess, really it’s a part of who we all are. Jodi, you have such a wonderful way of really showing that love! Enjoy your time away, your time to reconnect with family, your time to just “be” in the moments of the whole weekend.
(and…we are expecting a bit of snow in Wisconsin…60’s sounds toasty!!!).
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your whole family.
With love and hugs right back to you,
Lance
Happy Thanksgiving Jodi and may you have a wonderful trip to NoCal!
Blessings to you, Jodi. You bring great light to blogland. I am glad we are connected. And I agree with Lance…all those “loves” through your post speaks volumes about you. Happy holidays from my heart to yours. xo
Jodi,
Enjoy your family and thanksgiving! Love back to you!
k
Thank you, Jodi, for continuing to write and be such an inspiration. Have a blessed holiday, and enjoy yourself to the greatest extent possible!
Hi Joydi!
Have a lovely time with family and all the great food as well. It’s one of my favorite holidays too – it’s all about love and family – no gifts like Christmas – it’s about togetherness!
I am so thankful for having met YOU thru blogging! It truly has been a JOYful experience – I just love your writing!
Hugs,
suZen
Hi Jodi,
Happy Thanksgiving to you too! May you have a fun and safe time up in Northern California!
Thank you for always writing such heartfelt posts. You go, girl!
Jodi,
I’m sure your enjoying yourself as the day draws to an end. It’s my favorite holiday as well. Thanks for being in my life, I enjoy your blog more than you know!
Everyone has the option to be grateful every moment. Thanksgiving is a perceived period of time where large numbers of people get together to exchange blessings. And yet, why do some people limit the idea of appreciating others to selctive dates on a calendar. Let this be a wake-up call to the internal programming that limits what you are. Everyone has the choice to love and celebrate life every moment. You need not have turkey and be with a selective group of human beings to relish what you are now.
Hi Jodi and all,
We do not celebrate thanks giving however it is wonderful to join in the joy and in the appreciation of this community.
I am with Tess, we probably mean more to each other than we will ever know.
Love to you all, Wilma xox
jodi,
I truly enjoy reading your blog. You have offered some incredible insights into finding joy in every day life. Thank you for being you. I am thankful for knowing you.
Keep up your awesome work!
Love to you and your family,
Trina
Dear Jodi, What a beautiful beautiful sharing. The thing that hits me so powerfully is your overwhelming sense of gratitude, and given so freely. I really resonate with that because it is how I feel every day of my life.
This is like a very potent prayer because I’ve found that giving thanks is probably the most powerful message we can actively send out into the universe. It is healing and soothing. We focus on what we love and cherish. It’s so empowering to us and others. And you do it SO well. Simply lovely. Thank you. Hugs, Robin.
Jodi,
I hope you enjoyed the holiday! Your spirit shines through this entire post so I know your heart is full with lots of good energy from visiting and good food and all that you anticipated. Thank you for sharing as much as you do; yours is a blog of comfort, of care, of love…..
Thank you, Jodi, for your inspiring words.
Thanksgiving or not, we have to be grateful of the blessing that has come upon us, especially our families and friends. Happy, happy Thanksgiving!.
Hi Jodi,
I love Thanksgiving too (even though I am a vegetarian-and I’m not a tofurkey kind of girl and there are plenty of harvest veggies to eat!) This year has been a year of unusual blessings for me and deep gratitude. Right before T-Day I had some difficulty with language due to a new MS lesion in my brain, so I asked my blogging friends and family and facebook friends and others to join me in an ongoing project about gratitude…it is called the mega mobius gratitude quilt…I invite you to stop by and add your gratitude comments in the comments section of that blog entry…there is a link on the side bar of my blog that will take you to the top of the entry where you can read the blessings of gratitude from people all over the world…it is very cool. I hope you do stop by.
gentle steps,
Laura
Hi Jodi – I’d love to have you guest blog on Serendipity Smiles. Please let me know if you’re interested! xo Peggy
Jodi! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog after so many months. It really means a lot. I hope you’ve been well. I can’t wait to get back to blogging!
On another note, I love Thanksgiving too! The only downfall for me is that I’m living in San Diego, so there aren’t many fall colors to look at. Lot’s of football though