Be thankful for your blessings while helping others.

Happy thanksgiving everyone ❤️

I try to help all the time, it makes my spirit soar with happiness to be helpful. I am thankful every day to be able to seek an opportunity to help others.

Am sure you and others here do - just being mindful of the importance.

Well, darn. Maybe you can do it next year.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. ^_^

I to feel its important to help those in need. My sons do the same, plus in Egypt where hubby is from they are very good about helping those in need. Very important to ensure the next generation makes it important too.

Agreed, working with homeless youth was a very important thing for me and I just wished I had started doing it earlier since I am retired now.

My sisters and I use to go to an old folks home, and visit the elderly. They enjoyed our visits. We would stop after school every day.

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I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving full of good friends, family and delicious food. Mine was wonderful! My daughter graduated from Army Basic yesterday in South Carolina and I was so glad to be there and see it all. Drove 15 hours to get home for Thanksgiving with the rest of my family. Though I was tired it was still a great day. It didn't hurt that my Cowboys beat the Washington Redskins today. Love them 'Boys! Now I've missed several days of Fireside so I'd better get busy. Hugs to all!

Congrats I know your a proud Mom!

What a day! Glitter and Dannygyrrl's Auntie Carolyn and Uncle Steve really had a wonderful dinner for us all. Cousin Phil and Cousin Paul were also there, though Cousin Peter and Cousin Andrew were in different parts of the world, like Mendota or something. There were other cousins ( or friends of cousins ) and Welly made quick friends of one of them and they smoked their pipes together, ( Welly is quite fond of his pipe and rarely gets to smoke it around our house...bleh) and conversed for longs periods of time on topics such as; manly war stories, history, weapons, tactics, and My Little Pony. Everybody over there were MLP fans. I was among bronies and they were the most wonderful and sweetest geeks in the world. Bronies and pipes and nerds and music and food. Nerd Heaven.

There were games and lots and lots of ale, cider ( what we in the States call Hard Cider but over in the UK they just call cider. And contrary to popular opinion from Americans over here, this is not some wimpy light-weight sweet apple juice brew....it was potent, grow-hair-on-your-chest-I-can-see-why-it-is-so-popular-in-the-UK-and-why-most-Americans-are-wimps-with-their-beer-and-ale-drinking-habits kind of brew. Of course, since I am a wee fuzzy creature and I already have hair on my chest, lets just say that I had a few dizzy spells with dinner. I also had some very wonderful Kentucky Rye Whiskey to go with my ale...that might have had something to do with the shift in the tilt of Earth's axis during dinner. It seems to have resolved as the night wore on.

Lets just say that we had a wonderful time making some new friends and new cousins, ( it's OK for me to have 'human cousins'...) and I look forward to getting to know this side of my authors family as time goes by. I am thankful that they have resolved whatever it was that caused the family do divide in the first place, and I am thankful for resolution and reconciliation on their parts.

I may still be having a dizzy spell, but I will go to sleep tonight thankful that I am loved by a whole new group of humansses.

Send over some of that hair growing liquid dear...i have a use for that LOL :P Starting to get mighty thin on the roof,don't think it would hurt to have a swig or two..... :)

Thanks . You know I am. If and when I can dl my pictures I will post some for y'all to look at. It was wonderful. My son who is an Army medic and a First Sargent took me to the graduation and did all the driving for me. So proud of them both!

I cant wait to see the pictures. Nice you got to spend time with your son, too.

My son has been at Ft. Campbell up in Tennessee for the last two years and just now moved to San Antonio to Ft Sam Houston to train the new Army Medics coming into the Army. That's only about 4 hours from me! Closest we have been in a long time. Will love getting to spend more time with him and his wife and my granddaughter. I have been lucky to see them once a year before this. He also teaches MRT - Mental Readiness Training to the soldiers, ROTC at schools and for private companies as well. I am very proud of all the work he does. He helped write the MRT training manual along with several retired generals and psychologists. He's been teaching it the past year. All soldiers are required to go through that training.

What day does Fireside end?

So nice to have him close. My oldest is in Arlington, VA for the last 4 years. Hubby and i are going to visit him in December. He seems so far from El Paso. Your son's work is so valuable for his fellow service members coming and going to combat zones.

Yes it is... Resiliency Training is another name for it? Not sure the exact title but it is used to make the soldiers mentally strong. I live in the Dallas area. My daughter that just graduated is going to her AIT up in Virginia at Ft.Lee. She's gonna be a supply specialist. She's very good at math. She's gonna put in for Japan, Korea or Germany for her first duty station. That's two years away from the states. I hope she gets Japan because she has always wanted to go there.

I did the same job, and did my training at Ft.Lee. Your son's training is so important, I cant express that enough. I have a friend in the Arlington suburb of Dallas. I hope she gets the assignment she wants. I got Germany and loved it.