I am thankful for...

Julie and Morgan have known since they were very young that Santa has a magical way of opening our front door since we do not have a fireplace. They believed me every year as I told them that when Santa comes into our home to leave their gifts, he brings a couple of his reindeer in too. The reindeer get to warm up for a minute or two and have a snack too.

After the kids are asleep, I slip on my big rubber boots and sneak out to the living room armed with baby powder snow, Milk Dud surprises, and bird seed treats. I...

For as-long-as I can remember every Christmas Eve we would sit together turn off all of the lights (except the Christmas tree) and read a Christmas story.  After the Christmas story we were allowed to open one present.  It's a tradition that I carry on with my own family now.

We also bake sugar cookies and have a huge Christmas party decorating them, after we are done we take them around to families.  The look on my child's face is priceless, and it's great to have fun tradition's for her to hopefully,  carry on with her family.

Merry Christmas!!!

As a wife, I am thankful for the love of a most caring, devoted, and hard-working husband and father.  To witness the excitement of the children as daddy comes home from work, I am grateful to grow old with this man.

As a mother, I am thankful to be blessed with three beautiful children.  Each day may be full of dishes, laundry, diapers, and tears, but are also days of smiles, laughter, and joy.

My family is the most important thing to me and I am so thank ful for them. This last summer we experienced a very trageic event. Which changed the lives of not just my immediate family but my extended family as well. Losing a child is the hardest thing to face, with this your entire life...

I am thankful that for my wife. She has been such an inspiration to me over our first 2 years of marriage.  The first week of our marriage, my wife got really sick at our job in Denali National Park. She was diagnosed with H-Pylori, its a very bad intestinal bacteria. About 100 times...

My life as a busy mother of six often leaves me wondering if there is something to be grateful for. And then, every once in a while, I get a wake up call and realize how truly blessed I am; so I determined that this season, I will count my blessings. After all, motherhood isn't all fevers and flus, carpools and homework, dirty toilets and dirty dishes, piles of papers and mountains of laundry. So, here goes...

I am thankful that my living room has not been declared a national disaster area, even though it often looks...

What's not to be thankful for in the greatest country in all the world?  We have hot water that's piped right into our houses, we have restaurants that we run to when we don't want to cook dinner or when we need a romantic setting, we have hospitals that do their darndest to keep us healthy and alive, and we have grocery stores with fresh food and chocolate!  When the weather is not to our liking we can turn the heat up or the air on.  When we want to talk to someone we can pick up our home phone, our cell phone, or jump on FaceBook.  When we want to exercise we can go outside in a beautiful world or hit the local...

There are so many wonderful people in the world. When times get hard it seems like there are so many people that are there to support and love us.

I am thankful for my husband. He is my hero. Right now he is serving his second tour of duty. I am thankful for his sacrifice. I am thankful for his dedication to this country. He is a wonderful husband, a great new father, and a hero in every sense of the word. Because of his sacrifice I...

What a wonderful time of year to express such thankfullness!!  I feel that I should be expressing it all year long.

 I would just like to let my parent's know  how grateful I am for all the sacrafices they have made for me and still make for me.

Also with it being Vetern's Day this month I would especially like to send a thank you to my dad for serving our country.  I am so emotional when I think of all the soliders serving and the great sacrafice that they and there families make so we can enjoy the freedom that we do.