On Saturday I took down my Halloween decorations. That sounds funny to my ear since I used to avoid Halloween. For most, the holiday is all about candy and costumes and decorations. I've tried to become a good sport about it. After all, I have a seven year old grandson. People need to have something to look forward to, so TRICK OR TREAT night has become a major holiday for retailers (#2 I've heard).
As I was saying, I put away my pumpkin door decoration and Mickey Mouse (vampire) talking candy bowl and got out my Thanksgiving decor . . . a fun couch pillow with a felt turkey; a tin turkey on the mantle--my favorite done with chalk paint; a tray with a
harvest pumpkin and our tradition, a jar of candy corns (still there from Halloween); another turkey candle and mini
harvest salt shakers; a straw turkey--actually two straw turkey's (the grass woven one was my mom's); Publix Pilgrim salt shakers and a pumpkin shaped candle as a table centerpiece. It seems like something is missing.
Oh yeah. My fall door wreath has returned and I changed out my Halloween garden flag with a Thanksgiving one . . . that should about cover it. Hmm . . .
Oh! I'm in charge of ordering the turkey this year . . . still, is something missing?
Now I remember . . . 70% of those surveyed said they wish retailers would wait to put up Christmas decorations and play "holiday" music until after Thanksgiving. Why don't they listen to us? Perhaps it's because we can't stop long enough to consider exactly what we are thankful for and to whom we are thankful. Don't wait until Thanksgiving Day [hoping to] feel thankful. If you're like me, or the host of Thanksgiving dinner, that warm thankful feeling is probably in the oven. So . . . I'm going to spend the next 21 days enjoying my fun Thanksgiving decorations, and using them as reminders to actually write down the (many, MANY I'm sure) things I have to thank God for. Will you join me?
(That's what was missing).
