Happy Thanksgiving to All Who Enter Here

David, Faith and I spent the evening enjoying the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special. Great stuff. Here's an excerpt:

Linus van Pelt: In the year 1621, the Pilgrims held their first Thanksgiving feast. They invited the great Indian chief Massasoit, who brought ninety of his brave Indians and a great abundance of food. Governor William Bradford and Captain Miles Standish were honored guests. Elder William Brewster, who was a minister, said a prayer that went something like this: 'We thank God for our homes and our food and our safety in a new land. We thank God for the opportunity to create a new world for freedom and justice."

I've got no idea as to the historical accuracy of the Peanuts gang, but it sure sounded good. It also sounded good to hear Faith laugh as much as she did watching this. She knew things were funny, but couldn't quite understand why, so she would giggle and giggle and then say "What?!" She did that at least a dozen times. Too cute. She did know it was hilarious when Peppermint Patty called Charlie Brown, "Chuck." For her, that was the best joke of the night.

Someone on our online adoption group posted this today. Thought I'd pass it on for your Thanksgiving meditation --

On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a formal proclamation, passed by an Act of Congress, initiating the first annual National Day of Thanksgiving:

No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy...I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens in every part of theUnited States, and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day ofThanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens....[it is] announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord....It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people.

Happy Thanksgiving, Everybody. We have much to be grateful for this year.

And for Lana-the-assimilated-kiwi - Happy Thursday (Or is that Friday?!)