I’m Dreaming of a White… Thanksgiving?

Happy Thanksgiving, friends and family!  I hope your day was full of turkey, tryptophan, and plenteous servings of stuffing and green-bean casserole.  As this title suggests, it’s snowing today here in our corner of Alaska.  This is nice, as we’ve had several days of icy rain, which isn’t fun at all. 

 

Being Thanksgiving, I want to list the things I’m thankful for.  This may be cliché to do on this day, but it’s a good cliché.

• I’m thankful for my wife.  Hot dang! am I lucky to have her – she is everything!  Not only is she the Laundry Fairy, the Food Fairy, the Dishes Fairy, and the Keeping-Order-and-Sanity-In-Our-Home Fairy; she’s also the Good-Advice Fairy, the Inspire-Me-To-Be-a-Better-Man Fairy, and the Best Friend Fairy.  And she’s gorgeous. 

• I’m thankful for my kids.  They’re crazy.  They’re totally hyper (I haven’t seen Adam be still, except while sleeping, in over two years – there is always some part of him in motion).  They’re “creatively disobedient.”  They’re also inquisitive.  They’re creative.  They’re fun.  They’re naturally open to the Spirit.  And they’re two of my greatest teachers.

• I’m thankful for the rest of my family, here in Alaska and scattered throughout the country.  What fun would life be without you?
• I’m thankful to live in Alaska.  True, every time I see pictures of Julie and Dusty’s tropical paradise home, I yearn for warmer climes.  But these yearnings usually leave once I get outside and take in the mountain scenery around me here in Alaska.

• I’m thankful for pasta.  I love all food, but I especially love pasta.
• I’m thankful to be a teacher.  I seriously have the best job in the world.  I enjoy myself every day, and when I leave my classroom to go home I feel like I’ve done my small part to make the future a better place.
• I’m thankful for the Church.  The Church is, as my bishop always says, the Kingdom of God on the earth.  A big thing to say, but true.  Need I say more?
• I’m thankful for my Savior.  Without Him, I would not be able to enjoy any of the blessings I listed above.