Tuesday 4: Thinking about Thanksgiving!

 Good Morning Friends in Blogland! Today is Tuesday, and time again for Tuesday 4!  You may think it a bit early to be thinking about Thanksgiving already, but it's never too early to be thankful!

So, in memory of our friend Toni Taddeo, and in the spirit of thankfulness, let us  answer these questions today! Perhaps they will stir up some memories for you as well!

Thanksgiving Time

Welcome to Tuesday 4 begun by Toni Taddeo and kept up in her memory.

Here is an old one from Toni's blog from 2019 about Thanksgiving time:



About Thanksgiving

1. What is your favorite Thanksgiving show/animated show?:

My favorite Thanksgiving show is kind of a mixture of Thanksgiving and Christmas: "Miracle on 34th Street" with Natalie Wood. I love that movie and even have a story about our own "miracle on "34th street" house...not really on 34th Street, but a miracle story. Sometime I will have to tell it. But not today.  Our other favorite movie for Thanksgiving is "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" with Steve Martin and John Candy.  I love that movie, but I'm not sure if I want to watch it again this year. We'll see...

2. What is there about Thanksgiving you like the best:

Well, of course it is the gathering of family and friends and sharing that time together, with much thankfulness and love.  So many happy memories of Thanksgivings past when our whole family could be together, before our parents left this world for heaven.  But we still try to keep the traditions going and our home has been the gathering place for our Florida families to gather over the past quite a few years now.  

This was last year:

3. Favorite Thanksgiving/holiday song?:

As a child I remember singing "Over the River and Through the Woods to Grandmother's house we go..."  But my favorite hymns would be:

"We Gather Together to Ask the Lord's Blessing..." and "Come Ye Thankful People, Come".  If we don't sing those hymns on Thanksgiving either in church that Sunday before or together at our home, then I don't feel like Thanksgiving is complete!

4. If you have an all holiday music radio station when do you start listening to it?:

Please, no Christmas music until after Thanksgiving!  And no Christmas decorations until after Thanksgiving. I prefer to keep the holidays separate and enjoy each one for its intended purpose.  Besides, our house would be too crowded to have Christmas decorations crowding out the Thanksgiving decorations. There is a time and a place for everything, and a season for each...

so there! LOL.

Thank you, Annie, for coming up with ideas for us each week. !

Now for some other news of the day... did you see the full moon last night?  I didn't actually see it until this morning. I knew it had to be full during the night, because the moonlight was so bright in our bedroom I could not get back to sleep! But I was too sleepy to go out and look at it until this morning, and this is the best I could do for pictures:

I am assuming this would be called the "Harvest Moon"?  

I remember my parents singing this song together.  Sweet Memories.  They met during the "Harvest Moon".  You can read more about that at the link just added...

And then one more thing that was VERY special happened yesterday.  I looked out the back door toward the Secret Memorial Garden and noticed there was something red blooming...and off I flew to see if it was what I thought it was:

Most of you who have known me for a while know that we have a Memorial Garden area in memory of our sweet #2 son, Matthew, who died in 2014 from cancer.  When we moved to this house two years ago, I brought with us the rose bush that was planted in the original memorial garden, along with a Rose of Sharon bush.  We re-planted them here...and the tradition seems to be that this rose bush blooms primarily on or around special events in our lives...birthdays, Mother's Day, Anniversaries, etc.  That seems to be about the only time it blooms. Well, this weekend will be my birthday, and when I saw that rose blooming yesterday I knew that it was my special birthday rose gift from Matthew, sent from heaven with love.  You may think what you want, but I can only tell you that it happens this way every special day...so whether or not you believe it...I choose to accept this as a sweet blessing and gift from God and from our son in heaven.  

You can see, it's not a very big bush, but it keeps growing and producing these special roses on special days.

Thank you. Matthew!

And Thank You, Jesus, for allowing this blessing to happen.

Here is how it looks this morning.  It will last all week and still be beautiful on my birthday, which is Saturday.  Just one of God's special mysteries and blessings.

Yes, I am very thankful, and Thanksgiving will again be a time of great thankfulness in our family.

Have a blessed day today.  Be sure to keep a watch for special blessings that God sends your way. They are there, if you just watch and pay attention!