365 Days of Thanksgiving: October 2012

Friday, October 5, 2012

Day 142 of Thanksgiving....

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Today I am so very Thankful for Donuts! Yep - you read that right - donuts - a heavenly concoction that we don't allow ourselves to enjoy very often now that we are on the other side of 50! We have had a new Dunkin Donuts in the making for several weeks now very near our favorite place for Chinese takeout. Finally it has opened and tonight we went by for a sample. Gone are the days when we could bring home a dozen or two and enjoy them over several days. Now we only get a few and no leftovers - that way we don't overdo. Tonight we tried the Pumpkin and it was awesome. Such a small little extravagance but so enjoyable and since it is Fall and I love everything Pumpkin, it was a double delight!!

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Day 141 of Thanksgiving....

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Today I am so very Thankful for Guidepost! For many years of my adult life I have read and devoured each yearly edition of Daily Guidepost. If you are not familiar with this publication, it is a daily devotional book that comes out each year from the publishers of Guidepost magazine. The most awesome thing about it is, is that it is written by a group of authors that come back year after year and over the years they have become like family. I can't wait to crack open each new edition and see how they are doing and if there is anyone new. The sad part of any new edition is when there is a loss of a long time author. I feel so close to them and feel compelled to say a prayer for those they leave behind. Years ago I bought a copy and gave it to a dear long time friend. Years later when we went through a hard time and could not afford to buy them, she in turn started sending them to me each year. What a blessing and a joy to open my mail box and find a fresh new one for the coming year. I find old copies all over my house - I have reread old ones, donated them and just plain hoarded them. You will see me swipe ideas and quotes from them quite often as well. I can't say enough about what the Guidepost Daily Devotional books have meant to me and Thank you so very much to my Dear Friend Sandy!

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1/364 For years I worked in an office at a desk and one of the company supplied tools was a desk calendar. It was the kind with one page for each day and at the end of the day, that page would be torn off. In the bottom right corner of the page were two numbers with a slash between them. I was fascinated with these numbers - they represented the numerical place that day held in the 365 days of the year. Simple math but awesome to me. For the purpose of this blog I will do my best to use that representation to note 365 Days of Thanksgiving. I have tried this many times in journals but have always failed and let it fall by the wayside. I am hoping by creating this blog and posting it on FaceBook that I will have the organization and forethought to keep it going. I also hope this practice will allow me to keep things in perspective and realize the true joy in life and focus on that each and every day. So hear goes.....