Fellow Queens! 

Thanksgiving is almost here and I would love for you to send me a quick e-mail and tell me what you are thankful for. I'll include them in next week's address. 

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Pausing for a moment to give a great big thanks for all we’ve got is a beautiful thing.

The problem I have is that around the first of November the tsunami of Christmas commercialism starts to churn. Every year the hype to want more, more, more, gets earlier, earlier and earlier. 

What is the collateral damage in all this pre-Christmas hype?

Thanksgiving.

To combat the holiday materialism in our house we have The Turkey.  He's a no feathered, bowling ball shaped, construction paper fowl, taped to the door to the pantry.  Every night we go around the dinner table and share what we are thankful for. We write it down on a paper feather, add it to The Turkey so and by Thanksgiving day the turkey is looking pretty good.  One night last year my six year old son wrote that he was thankful for penguins.  Another night I was relieved to find out that when my 13 year old wrote "speed" he meant how fast he can run and not amphetamines.  My oldest son was grateful for finally being 16 so he could get his drivers licence. 

Let’s all count our blessings. At the very least we can be thankful that there will be pecan pie!

Gobble, gobble.
Queen Linda