It is Sunday, the last day of the Thanksgiving weekend and I can’t believe it went so fast! My weekend has been jam packed so far. I have some family in town so we did the big yummy meal on Thanksgiving, (props to my sister who prepared most of it! she is awesome). Friday we decided to avoid the frenzy at the mall and headed down toward Chattanooga. We stopped at a precious town on the way for coffee and a walk around a church that looked more like a castle, and ended up getting to Chattanooga in time for dinner and a little Christmas celebration! It was so cool, they even had boats parading on the water decorated in Christmas lights, which being from Portland, made me a little nostalgic. Yesterday we went to the Bellemead Plantation which is one of my favorites around here, and it was decorated for Christmas as well so that made it more special. Did you know that in the 1850’s, they would only bring in a Christmas tree for a couple hours for a party or something, then they would take it down? You learn something new everyday. Anywho, I took them to the Loveless cafe for dinner which is a famous place to go here in Nashville, the biscuits are light and buttery and the food is down home, well worth the trek.

So here it is Sunday already. I wanted to take a moment before the transition between Thanksgiving and Christmas was over and there is no trace of fall left, to say that I am thankful. I thought about writing a list of all the things I am thankful for, but I think the message can be summed up by just acknowledging that I am. There is so much power in saying ‘I am Thankful’, to live your life with a thankful attitude. It is very easy, especially for me, to get caught up in what you have to do, what you should do or say or have, what steps you need to complete to get what you want looming out in the future, what you haven’t accomplished yet, what doesn’t look like you thought it would. If I start to think “I am thankful” instead, there are a flood of things in my life right in this moment that I am thankful for. This Holiday season, and even after, I want to try to remember to think and act from a thankful mindset. Imagine what that could do.

Thank you for reading this:)