I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We have friend from another part of the world and when we talk to them and say “Happy Thanksgiving” they  respond with, “Oh yes, Happy Thanksgiving.” At that response, I remember that Thanksgiving is a USA holiday. We, as a melting pot of people, have learned to mix our Thanksgiving with different traditions. Yet we each try to create our own traditions to remember what we are thankful for. In my family we have a special pudding (date nut pudding) that we make, and as our family grows we watch the face of a newcomer to the family, to see if they like it or not. My sister-in-law, Roann,  told a visitor, “Even if you don’t like it, pretend you do because you’re not a George unless you say this is so good.” In our family, our oldest grandson reads the 23rd Psalm and then we hold hands in a circle and go around the room and each person says one thing they are thankful for. This Thanksgiving, as we went around the circle, my grandkids said, “I am thankful for family.” It’s not the food – it’s being together and enjoying the