The Month of Thanking

Welp, its November and time for another season where we are supposed to be thankful. I am full of gratitude for so many things, but have such mixed emotions about it all. Truth is, I AM thankful for everything I have. And! I may even participate in the ridonkulous facebook challenge that everyone is participating in. I thought about doing it last year and just couldn't decide what to put as my first day of thankfulness for fear of not having my priorities in proper order. I'm still on the fence about it this year and I'm already two days late, so that's not a good sign at all...

Anyway. I think I am going to at least blog about my thankful heart, but let me tell you what, its not easy when I know that turkeys everywhere are down to their last days. I mean, come on, of COURSE we are thankful. Its easy to be thankful when you're not about to get stuffed! And let's not forget about the small teeny tiny little fact that we 1000% stole this land from the Native Americans. Yes, let's just celebrate that fact with millions of turkey legs and pie!

But back to facebook. How do you choose what to put first? I thought, "well duh, I put my husband first...that's a no brainer." But then, I thought about my mom. I mean, she PUT me on this earth. How can I not put her first? I wouldn't have a husband to be thankful for if it wasn't for her. But then, I thought about my dogs. I can't not put THEM first, right? They love me unconditionally and that, people, you don't find in unf-urry friends. It's just such a conundrum to me. And what about my other friends..and family. What if I don't thank them until like...I don't know...day 16 or even worse, day 23!?

On the other hand,  I sort of feel like it's boastful to post all about what you have and what you are thankful for on facebook. There is bound to be people less fortunate, less happy, less spoiled, less whatever that read your look-at-everything-I-have-and compare-it-to-what-you-don't-have-and-then-go-sit-in-your-dark-closet-alone-and-try-to-convince-your-neck-to-swallow-your-head. For example, there always some person on my facebook bragging about their husband being the best in the world...and its usually because they made dinner or something of the liking. But, MY husband makes me dinner almost every single solitary night AND he does the dishes. But if I were to post that on facebook, then that would make all these women who think they have the best husband in the world because they made one meal realize that they actually don't have it that great. Ehh, I just don't know y'all.

What I'm trying to say is that today I am thankful for my husband, my mom, and my the-best-dogs-in-the-world dogs...in no particular order. Geez.

Tootles!