MY THANKSGIVING PRAYER

As I gather together with my family and friends to give thanks for all of our blessings today, I want you to know that YOU will be included in my prayer of thanksgiving. I wish I could share you with my nearest and dearest. You wonderful bloggy buddies have brought such joy to my life. I wish that you could join us at our table to eat, drink and be merry. What you would bring to the party cannot be matched. Oh what a time we would have. Wouldn’t that be great!

Instead I wish you and yours the loveliest of holidays. And let us all remember in our thoughts and prayers those who are less fortunate, those who have no one with whom to share a meal today, and last but most certainly not least those who are serving to protect our country.

God bless us all!

Hugs,

Smart Mouth Broad

MY WISH FOR YOU

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYONE!

MAY YOUR DAY BE BLESSED WITH GOOD FOOD, GOOD FRIENDS, CHERISHED FAMILY MEMBERS AND MEMORIES THAT WILL LAST A LIFETIME

THE BLOGGYS

It's award season in the blogosphere and I am so honored to have been selected to receive not one but two awards. So put on your fanciest duds and meet me at the Bloggersville Community Center for the ceremony.

Bling #1


Bling #2

Pseudonymous High School Teacher has presented me with the prestigious Hooked on Your Blog award.

and

Midlife Mama has presented me with the coveted Kreativ Blogger award.

I am truly amazed that anyone is "hooked" on my blog or thinks that I am creative. I came to the blogosphere like most of us, for a creative outlet and a place to put my rambling thoughts and have found so much more. I have stumbled upon a community of friends like no other. Here is a place where we can marvel at our differences with respect and find comfort in our similarities. To bloggers everywhere, I salute you. It is a good thing we are doing here.

As with all awards there are rules and they are as follows:

1. List 6 things that make you happy. (I'm going to follow Pseudo's lead here and say that this rule comes with both awards)
2. Pass the award on to 5 bloggers for Hooked and 6 bloggers for Kreativ.
3. Link to the blogger who gave you the award.
4. Link to the blogs receiving the award.
5. Notify the recipients.

First things first,

Six things that make me happy in no particular order:

1. Spending time with my children. Now that MHS and I are empty nesters, the time with our kids is rare and precious.
2. Spending time with the rest of our family. We are spread so far apart that it just doesn't happen often enough.
3. Roadtrips.
4. Coming home.
5. Good coffee.
6. Our loyal canines.

And now the drumroll, please..............

I would like to present the Hooked on Your blog award to:

Midlife Slices

Jan's Sushi Bar

Nothing Fancy

Midlife Musings

Shout

I would like to present the Kreativ Blogger award to:

Nana Diaries

Slick Sumbich

Stepping Thru

Swampwitch

Thistle

The Chicago Blogger

Allow me to be the first to congratulate the bloggers listed above. They are all unique and entertaining in different ways. If you see one that you haven't visited, run on over there and check them out. (A warning to the faint of heart or easily offended, Slick sometimes gets a little rowdy over there. Consider yourself warned.)

So Grateful Sunday

I am blessed. Truly. And today I would like to take the time to count my blessings. I've declared today SO GRATEFUL SUNDAY. It might appear next week or I might forget all about it. But today I am counting my blessings.

Of course no blessing count would be complete without acknowledging my biggest and most cherished blessings: My Harley Stud, Daughters #1 and #2, my parents, my siblings, My Daisy, my inlaws (all of them), Mayzie and Pixie, my very large extended family and of course last but not least my friends. Those are a given.

While I am always grateful for the afore-mentioned blessings that make my life complete, today I am counting the simple joys in my life that add a little kick and make it interesting. (at least to me)

1. The sound of my coffee maker. It has a built in grinder and sounds like a 747 is landing in the kitchen. I love it.
   
2. The smell of fresh mown grass.
   
3. My convertible. This is the best time of year for a top-down drive. (At least when there is not a hurricane brewing out there)
   
4. The inlet. One of my favorite places to go. MHS knows if he wants to make me happy, he can take me there and all the stress just falls away into the water as I watch the boats come in and go out, count crabs on the rocks, and peer into the fisherman's buckets to see their catch of the day.
   
5. My ipod. Oh, the places it can take me when I completely zone out and tune in.
   
6. Blogging and the new friends it has given me.
   
7. Cooking for friends and family. It's usually good too. But even when it's not, we always have a good time.
   
8. My neighbors' nanny goats. They make me smile.
   
9. Nanny Goats in Panties. She makes me laugh. Even though sometimes I have no idea what she is talking about. (Yeah, I did it. I ended a sentence in a preposition. I'm a rebel like that sometimes. But I'm Hoosier-born. It's in my blood)
   
10. FSU football and the 2-0 stats we have so far this season. GO NOLES!
    

    
    

What are the blessings for which you are grateful today?

Give Credit Where Credit is Due

I would like to thank Thistle, whose post prompted me to create "So Grateful Sunday".