39 Traveling home for the holidays

40 Cooking Thanksgiving dinner with family

41 Sitting down to enjoy that Thanksgiving dinner

42 Peanut Butter Brownie Torte – mmm mmm

43 My son eating his first turkey leg, well nibbling on the bone at least

44 Wishing my son a happy 1st birthday

45 Watching him bust into his 1st birthday cake with wild abandon

46 Supermarket salad bars

47 Friendly Mid-westerners shopping on Black Friday

48 Small town country stores

49 After Thanksgiving sales

50 Hampton Inn beds

51 Starbucks Peppermint Mochas (my fave)

52 Outlet malls

53 Salvation Army Bell Ringers

54 Sweet Macy’s shoe dept. associates

55 Warm and cozy fleece pajama pants with snowflake designs

56 A baby who will sleep anywhere as long as he has his green grasshopper blankie and rain machine

57 Lazy afternoons

58 How excited my son gets over something as simple as a birthday balloon

59 Husbands who never complain when you spend too much money on holiday shopping.

What are you thankful for this holiday season?  Hope on over to Holy Experience and join us.