It has been a really good few days around our little part of Tennessee.  Here are seven things that I’m thankful that happened the past week.

(1) I’m thankful that RT is feeling better.  He felt really bad on Wednesday and Thursday and was certain he had strep throat.  However, we went to a Minute Clinic, and they checked.  No strep throat, no flu - just a cold with a sore throat.

(2)  Yesterday (Friday) around 4:30, RT said he was feeling better and why don’t we make a quick trip to Georgia to visit my mother and his mother.  Fifteen minutes later we were packed and on our way to the airport.  By 6:00 we were rolling down the runway - arriving at the small airport in my mother’s hometown in Georgia.  Two of my sisters were there to meet us.  We got to visit with my mother and two sisters - sitting up way too late talking.

(3) Then this morning we woke up, visited with my mother a little longer, then hopped back on the plane and flew another hour to RT’s mother’s hometown where we rented a car and drove the 30 minutes to her house where we have an absolutely scrumptious Thanksgiving dinner.

(4) Then, because the weather forecast predicted a storm all day Sunday - starting Saturday afternoon, we headed back to the airport and flew back home — arriving back at our hometown airport a little under 24 hours from when we’d left yesterday.  A totally wonderful 24 hours - except for RT not feeling well - but he is already feeling much better and is happy we went since he wasn’t contagious and he got to visit everyone.

(5) For plates of wonderful food to bring home from my mother-in-law - homemmade cornbread dressing, sweet potato souffle, real mashed potatoes, creamed corn, from-scratch cake with caramel frosting, homemade lemon cream pie and homemade pecan pie.

(6) For having such LARGE plates of wonderful food that when we stopped by our son’s house to pick up our dog, Jake, and our son’s eye lit up at the mention of his grandmother’s cornbread dressing and sweet potato souffle, we had enough to leave a plate with them.

(7) For having families that welcome us with open arms - even when we visit on the spur of the moment.  Family is wonderful, and I am enormously thankful for mine.

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