Last Thursday was Thanksgiving, and Mer and I have much to be thankful about, although we often forget that in the business of our lives. We have a great family (Shannon notwithstanding), good jobs, a nice house, our health, wonderful friends, a good church, family living in cool places to visit, and on and on. I think we take these things for granted too often – God has been good to us just out of grace, and I am glad we set aside a little time to remember this.

For the actual day of Thanksgiving, we took a mellow morning. We headed down to Aunt Mary’s house in the afternoon, where we had a satisfying meal involving lots of whipped potatoes (as well as meat, and jello, and bread, and pumpkin roll, and more). I certainly got enough to eat.

After supper, we sat in the living room and played a fiercely-fought game of the original 1983 Trivial Pursuit. Aunt Mary has only ever lost to Mer, and even then only once. I have never won. In this game, I was up 4 pieces to 2, and Aunt Mary still won 6-5-4 (I had five and Mer had four). I knew a 4-2 lead was not safe. I guess I need to be thankful for a smart aunt. After the game, Mer and I headed home for an early evening to bed for our big anti-Black Friday where we were planning on cleaning out our basement of years’ worth of material goods.