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Happy Turkey Day!

Today is Thanksgiving Day. A day to reflect on what we are grateful for more so than we do on other days. Let me just say that there is so much that I am grateful for and that it would literally take me forever to make a complete list. I have been so blessed in my life and am undeserving of such generosity. Here is a partial list of the blessings that I am particularly thankful for this past year (in no particular order):

1. Stuart--my husband.

2. The gospel and for the stability it brings to my life.

3. Our first home that has heat, furniture and food in the cabinets.

4. A car that is still miraculously working.

5. My loving family, that despite the distance, make me feel that they are right here with me when I need them.

6. My best friends and our fun phone dates; for all the many hours they spend listening to me ramble about random crap; and how they can always make me smile.

7. My education--despite how much I hate this school and town, I am grateful for the opportunity to receive a higher degree of education; and I am also thankful for graduation day which is quickly approaching.

8. I am grateful for my job, especially when there are so many others that are without employment.

9. My health. In freezing temperatures and surrounded by those suffering the swine flu, I have still somehow remained relatively healthy, which has allowed me to continue going to classes and work.

10. Modern appliances. Enough said.

11. My family's health and well-being. I worry about my family so much being so far away from them, and although they have all faced individual struggles this year, they have overcome much and have remained mostly happy and healthy.

12. Safety. My Heavenly Father has watched over me as I have traveled back in forth to work and in the bad weather that we have had recently. I feel that I don't thank him enough for taking care of me in this small aspect, but one in which makes me nervous and scared. I am thankful for the peace he brings me and again for the opportunities he has presented to me in my life.

I do wish I was home this thanksgiving with my wonderful and hilarious family at this time, although I did get a chance to skype them earlier today. But, I am thankful for the time I have to spend with my husband and siblings-in-law today--I guess I am just having a hard time adjusting to not being home for the holidays. But I am thankful as well for loving in-laws and a new family through marriage.

Let me close this partial list of what I am thankful for with just reiterating that I am so thankful for the many, many blessings that I see in my life. I am so beyond blessed and in no way deserve it. I wish to better reciprocate all that I am blessed with and need to concentrate more on thanking my Father in Heaven for his grace.