Our First Thanksgiving as Caregivers

This year the Thanksgiving holiday will be very different for the Johnson household.  In the past we have chosen one of several options:

• Cook a large meal at home and invite friends
• Have dinner at a friends home
• Travel to Nashville to have spend the holiday with family

This year we will have a small, intimate dinner at home – just me, Fred, Anita and Gladys.  Anita and I have decided that we are not interested in a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, we are both tired of turkey and ham.  We have decided to have crab cakes and rack of lamb or lamb chops with peach cobbler and chocolate pie for dessert.

Since Gladys can’t walk up the stairs, we will set everything up downstairs so we can all have dinner together.  Just a simple, quiet day with the family.

A Few Things For Which We are Thankful:

• Our health and strength
• Our children are healthy, employed and living on their own
• Our mothers are alive and well
• We are able to take care of Gladys
• We have a very supportive family

I am also thankful for each of you who continues to read this blog and leave comments from time to time.  Thank you for your support and for visiting.

With the current state of the economy, so many people have lost their jobs, homes and extraordinary losses in the stock market.   Those factors make it easy to wonder what we have to be thankful for.  My list is simple and what I believe is most important.  As long as we have our families, health and strength, we can continue to work toward everything else.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

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