Thankfulness

I was going to write about Siena again today.  And, that would be a fine thing to do.

But really, what I think I would rather do, on this day before Thanksgiving, is think about what I am thankful for and write a bit about that.

No matter how you feel about Thanksgiving, whether you think it's the best holiday of the year (as lots of people do) or the most barbaric (as lots of people do), the holiday can at least do this for you:  it can be a mark in your year where you remind yourself to be thankful for...well....anything.  Everything.

It's easy to get immersed in busy.  Bogged down in negativity or other people's bad moods or anger.  It's easy to give in to complaining and misery and then find company who will help you reinforce those things.  It's easy to find bad seeds, plant them and nourish them.  I'm not sure why it's so easy, but it is.

The way to fend that off, of course, is to acknowledge all the good things (that you may not even notice) in your life that you probably take for granted.

Here are two of those thing that you are taking for granted:

Do you see how acknowledging such Good Things could Infinitely Improve Your Life?

CAN YOU SEE THIS FACT?

I hope so.  We all hope so.

Be thankful for LOVE, wherever you find it.

Be thankful for FRIENDS who are dear to you.

Be thankful for your FAMILY, whether it is the one you were born to, or the one you have made for yourself.

But most of all, Be Thankful for Rabbits.   They are Life's True Angels.

It's really time that you learned that.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM THE LILYPAD TO YOU!

Flip (Holiday) Friday

Here's hoping that all of you out there who celebrate Thanksgiving had a wonderful time!!

Well, some of us do.

Here at the Lilypad, we had lots of food, plenty of good cheer, and plenty of laughing, dancing smiling, and snuggling, plus all of the other wonderful things that come with a fun holiday where you get to lounge around in your comfortable clothes (and the CUTEST APRON EVER!!) and cook and bake and just be generally thankful for all the LOVE and GOOD THINGS in your life.

Miss Emmie waits patiently for you to
drop something she might want to eat.

I love Thanksgiving!!

In between baking and cooking and gazing lovingly at the Chick while she played on her computer (OK, she did do other things-- I'm just whining for attention from her!), I did some sudoku puzzles, snuggled my bunny, took tons of cat portraits (some of which you see in this post) and just had fun. Later on, we had some delightful company.

Scottie doesn't really care what you drop.
At least, not right now.

What a nice day! And it's only the beginning of a lovely weekend. Who knows what will happen next?

Miss Lilly just wants you to stop
staring at her intense cuteness.
Please.

And then she does something even cuter! Curses!

Rosie and me having a Kodak moment.

Me in my cute apron
holding an open squash that
could have been a
Georgia O'Keefe model.

Did you think I would forget your Rabbit Movie???

Yes, don't forget the Rabbit Movie.

Zoe's Thanksgiving Carrot from marcy hall on Vimeo.