Thanksgiving Day

The pie is baking and the potatoes are on to boil. Cream cheese is softening and leeks are out to be sliced. The Parade (only important one out of the year) is on the tv. Soon the dog show will be on and our corgis get to watch the herding group with us. A good day full of ritual and tradition for our household.
Giving thanks for family and friends is easy. I know that we have been blessed with good health (swine flu not withstanding). We have been given enough. Certainly not flush, but enough. Everything we need and some of what we want. And when it comes to want, we really "want" for nothing.
I do look back to Thanksgiving Day a year ago. Same things going on. Baking, cooking, pulling china out, looking forward to a full house. I knew then it would be my father's last and I wanted to make it a great day for him and for all of us. It was not meant to be. He just didn't have it in him to make it to our house and to sit at table. We took the meal to him. At the time, all I could think of was how much it hurt. I look back now and give thanks. I was able to do for him and for his lady.
I give thanks for my dad. I know that today he is at our table once more.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.