Can it really be November? It seems like it was only a few weeks ago and we were getting ready and observing our past Thanksgiving. I don’t know if time passes faster because I am getting older or if time just truly passes fast. The swiftness of the way we live our lives, the business of our daily activities, the never stop to “smell the flowers”, seems like we are so involved with some futile and just things that get in the way that we sometimes forget to recognize the more important things that mean something to our lives.
I think back to the years my boys were growing up, they were born quite a few years before our girl, and my memory picks up on some of the most likely to remember happenings. Things like the times that they learned to talk and how one of them had trouble pronouncing some letters and called himself a “Hims” instead of a Sims. The one who would catch my face in his hands when he had misbehaved and say, “Mommie, I love you so darn much” in order to avoid any punishment. As I sit and ponder on these remembrances, I am astonished at how many things I pull from my recollections.
Now these boys and our daughter are grown-ups with children of their own and I am reliving every little minute detail of their mom and dads “little years”.
This brings me to my thanksgiving-the thankfuls for which I am so grateful. Usually in the month of November we are ask sometimes on Facebook to list, every day one thing we are thankful for that day. The list always is made up of spouse, children, home, cars, etc. Sure we are all grateful for these evident things and are the ones we all give thanks for but what about the unseen gifts/miracles that we miss each day?
I remember once we were late leaving for an appointment in another town and we knew we would be late arriving. My husband does not do late. We were about thirty minutes late. There had been a horrendous wreck on the interstate we were traveling just at the time, had we been on time, that we were traveling.
That’s a thankful.
I can remember so many times, not enough room to list here, that something has happened that I have forgotten or just not thought to recognize, a thing that happens that in some way alters the course of time. Thats a thankful.
As we approach our thankful time of the year, be diligent, as I will try to be, and be ever grateful for the little unexpected and unrecognized happenings in our lives, not just the obvious thankfuls although we will always be happy to have been blessed with them.
We love coconut and I love easy.
COCONUT KISSES - COOKIES
1 large egg white, 1/2 cup confectioners sugar, 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut. - Place egg white in a small bowl and let come to room temp. Beat until soft peaks form. Gradually beat in confectioners sugar, 1 T. At a time. Fold in coconut Drop by spoonful’s onto parchment paper on cookie sheet and bake at 325 for 20 minutes. Store airtight.
