Happy Thanksgiving!!!

I've been thinking lately about Thanksgiving and all the blessings I've had happen in the last year... I thought I'd just take a moment to share a few of these blessings with you!  Last year I spent Thanksgiving with my family at my Mum's new place in Haliburton...she had just moved in... and it was a fun weekend...(So 3 members of my family are missing in this photo---Kat, and my youngest nephew..and ME!! I looked through my photos.. and I guess I didn't organize a group shot of us!! so this one will have to do!)

 I remember lying in the bottom bunk of a bunk bed (oh yes! my room at my mum's has my OWN set of bunk beds!)... listening to my mum and Kat talk about 'stuffing' the turkey... see Kat wanted to cook it and my mum was the teacher! (Part of me in that moment was thankful that I didn't want to learn how to do that..because it was a crazy 'god' awful time in the morning...hehehee)...She did an excellent job of the turkey by the way!!!

Overall the weekend was a lot of fun.... but that whole weekend I remember worrying about work...or should I say the lack of work!  I had finished my MA program in August and had yet to get a job... I had work I was doing--but really wasn't 'career' type stuff! 

That brings my list of Things to be Thankful for....(not just at thanksgiving but every day of the year!)... **they are in no way listed in priority of order.... just randomly put up here!**

*  I'm thankful for a job, that not only is a job but something I really do enjoy!

*  I'm thankful for family.. that loves me as much as I love them!

*  I'm thankful that I have a cozy home.... that to date is the biggest place I've ever lived.... I have windows (three years living in a basement makes you pretty amazed about windows!)....

*  I'm thankful that my job lets me travel... and experience new things... bring on the adventure!

*  I'm thankful for friends.... new ones from the north...that make my life so sweet up here in Pang....

*  I'm thankful for friends in the south... that are only a phone call or email or MSN or Facebook message away... friends that have history and get me.. with me having to explain myself...

*  I'm thankful for the opportunity to live in the Arctic...and learn about so many new things....

I'm thankful for so many more things... but well dont' want to share all of them in a 'public' forum.... so that's my list and I'm sticking to it!!

Here are a few more photos of family from Thanksgiving '08...I just got off the phone with my mum and John and Kat... I'm kind of glad I wasn't there yesterday, it sounded like 'a lot' of work was done... like raking leaves, burning old papers and files, crawling under the cottage to do something with the water pipes... and well cooking.. and dishes... hehehe (all things I 'really' enjoy!!) that being said... I did miss you yesterday... but I had lots of fun with friends up here in Pang...

I'm thankful for two adorable nephews!!

I can't wait to see the 'new' photos that Dana took of the boys this year!!

Fall and Thanksgiving have always been 2 of my favourite things!  I love watching the trees change colour...and this time of year... living in a land of no trees--well that makes me kind of sad... 

I'll leave you with 2 of my fav shots I took last Thanskgiving at my Mum's! 

My question to you the reader is....

What do you have to be thankful for??

(feel free to leave a message in the comment section)