So true, so true

When my parents took the kids to San Francisco a couple weeks ago, they brought home some chocolate fortune cookies from China Town. I gave the kids each one with their lunch today. These are their fortunes, in birth order. Very accurate!!

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Happy Thanksgiving! I thoroughly enjoyed my little family today, and I pray you did as well.

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I am thankful for the abundance of food we have been blessed with.

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I am thankful that my husband is such a hard worker. He should enjoy his sleep tonight, he's earned it!

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I am thankful for cooking lessons for the kids, delicious food to eat, and a house full of family to visit with.

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I am thankful for safe travel for everyone this weekend.

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I am thankful for amazing music, free suite tickets, and headphones. Great night, awesome concert.

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I am thankful for a husband who picks up take out on his way home. My day included an appointment at the DMV - where they didn't have any record of my appointment!! TGIF!

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I am thankful for new opportunities to learn. You're never too old to learn!

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I am thankful for brilliant children. We had parent teachers conferences today and both kids have straight A's! Celebrating tonight with ice cream sundaes.

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I am thankful for my comfy bed, with flannel sheets and new pillows, that I can spend enough time in it every night to wake up feeling refreshed for a new day. Buona notte!

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I am thankful for my wonderful, hardworking husband!

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Thankful for family: my parents for taking the kids to San Fran for the long weekend, lots of cousins to celebrate big birthday bashes with, and aunts for chauffeuring us around!

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I am thankful for appliances and electricity.

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I am thankful for the rain and our warm, dry house.

Shining as Lights in the World

Below was part of today's reading at Mass. I thought it was so very appropriate for the day after our election!

P.hilippians 2:12-16

My beloved, obedient as you have always been, not only when I am present but all the more now when I am absent, work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
For God is the one who, for his good purpose, works in you both to desire and to work.
Do everything without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like lights in the world, as you hold on to the word of life, so that my boast for the day of Christ may be that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

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I am so very thankful that this beautiful little girl is in my life!! I love my niece!!

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I am thankful for the right to vote. In God we trust!

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I am thankful for friends that make me laugh, even when we both want to cry about 3rd Grade homework.

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I am thankful for our Catholic school and church community. Lauren's class was the choir at Mass this morning. I love hearing the kids sing!

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I am thankful for days when we have absolutely nothing on the calendar. Few and far between, they are these days! My goal for today was to stay in my bathrobe all day - accomplished!

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I am thankful for a flexible job schedule that allows me to take care of the rest of the things life sends my way.

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I am thankful for friends, young and old. Attended a funeral today for a friend, a spunky little 83 year old. I'm going to miss our chats, Mary!

Happy All Saints Day.