by Jennifer Sartell of Iron Oak Farm
We hold our turkeys in very high regard here at Iron Oak Farm. Our Tom presents himself in a stoic, almost regal display. Turkeys are proud deliberate birds, gentle and beautiful. It’s no wonder that this amazing creature has made history time and again.
With “Turkey Day” only a couple weeks away I thought it would be fun to move through history and visit a few places where the turkey has been noted by royalty, presidents and American tradition.
First stop on our history tour, The Aztecs
Some of the first noted references to the turkey being held in cultural traditions begins as far back as the Aztecs.
1511 Moving through history, we see that the turkey gains popularity across the world.
King Ferdinand Declares “that every Spanish ship returning from the New World should bring back ten turkeys, “half males, and the other half females.”” A Short History of the Turkey by Andrew G. Gardner
Photo Credit: The First Thanksgiving 1621 by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
1621 The First Thanksgiving: Moving forward about a hundred years we come to the very first Thanksgiving where the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians share in a harvest celebration that lasted 3 days. While it is possible that turkey was served in this celebration, it’s not historically noted.
Kathleen Wall a historian who was quoted in the Smothsonian article What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving by Megan Gambino writes about some of the possible food items that the first settlers might have enjoyed with the Wampanoag. “The first Thanksgiving,” there would be slimmer pickings. “Wildfowl was there. Corn, in grain form for bread or for porridge, was there. Venison was there,” says Kathleen Wall. “These are absolutes.”
The tradition of “stuffing” does date back to that first Thanksgiving. The article goes on to say that The Pilgrims stuffed birds with chunks of onion and herbs. ““There is a wonderful stuffing for goose in the 17th-century that is just shelled chestnuts,””
Photo Credit: Wikipedia Benjamin Franklin
1784 Benjamin Franklin compares the Bald Eagle to the Wild Turkey as the national emblem in a letter to his daughter:
“For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him.
“With all this Injustice, he is never in good Case but like those among Men who live by Sharping & Robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank Coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the District. He is therefore by no means a proper Emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our Country…
“I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America… He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.” PBS.org
1789 George Washington declares that Thanksgiving be a National Holiday.
Photo Credit: Sarah Josepha Hale, 1831, by James Reid Lambdin
1827-1857 Sarah Josephine Hale works for 30 years to traditionalize Thanksgiving.
The tradition of the turkey and the side dishes that we know today were made tradition by Sarah Josephina Hale, in the same way Clement Moore traditionalized the image of Santa Claus in his poem The Night Before Christmas.
I see Sarah Hale as a sort of Martha Stewart of her time. She created traditional turkey, pumpkin pie and potato recipes and encouraged the American Housewife to make these dishes for their families.
Photo Credit: Wikipedia Abraham Lincoln
1863 Abraham Lincoln Declares the last Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving Day
1939 Roosevelt tries to change the date of Thanksgiving.
After a unpopular attempt to move Thanksgiving back a week to help retailers during the Depression era make more of the Christmas season, Franklin Roosevelt signs Thanksgiving Day as the 4th Thursday in November into law.
1989 George Bush begins the tradition of the yearly Turkey Pardon at the Whitehouse, where 1 or 2 turkeys meant for slaughter are pardoned and sent to live out the rest of their natural lives on a farm.
More reading on the History of the Turkey:
First Thanksgiving Meal, History.com
A Short History of the Turkey by Andrew G. Gardner Colonial Williamsburg, History.org
Eagles, Turkeys and America PBS.org
What was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving? by Megan Gambino
342 Comments
The anticipation is killing me 😉 Was a winner chosen?
I’m grateful to my husband and Social a Security, which enabled me to retire this year. I’m also MOST thankful for my happy, healthy grandson..
I am thankfu that even though we cannot be with the boys (away at college) for Thanksgiving- they have each other, and we have one more boy at home
There is so much to be thankful for, I’m not sure there is room on this page! Most of all I’m thankful for salvation through Jesus Christ! Secondly, for my wonderful husband and our awesome children and grandchildren. I am also so thankful for the plot of land we are blessed with. This winter I will be building chicken coops, chicken tractors and raised beds so I can get busy in the spring! I am also thankful for communitychickens.com for all the great information on chickens!
i am thankful to be alive sin ce i had an accident ijn 2010 that no one should have survived, and then the dr.s said i’d never walk…so i am thankful to be home with my family an walking and feeding my bunny babies and chickens, as well as my family
Im Thankful for God, my family, and the beautiful acreage we were able to buy this year to start our own little farm.
I am thankful for the good health of my family. My heart goes out to my friends who are struggling with health issues and I wish I could help them. Today, I am thankful for a specific rep from ATT who is actually trying to help me get my issues resolved and genuinely cares about her clients.
I am thankful that I finally have 4 banty hens even though they have yet to lay an egg, I have a good start on my garden and 4 full garbage cans of composting materials, I am able so far to keep the 7 rescue dogs fed and the 4 dogs inside , 3 of them are rescue, and the 20 or so cats fed and loved. I am thankful my nephew made it thru his tumor surgery and that I was able to give him my half of my mother’s house after she passed which was her dying wish however I do miss his family dearly as well as friends in my home town and my adopted state of Wash. I am grateful very much that I have reconnected thru the internet with the first love of my life and that we are working hard to make this house in Tenn our home. Even though the basement has flooded three times this year and needs work done to prevent further flooding for which I do not have the money now. I am thankful that I am regaining strength in my right arm which I smashed when I fell off a ladder landing on same ladder and required surgery and a plate and screws. And most of all I am thankful that my suicide attempt 21/2 yrs ago was not fatal or I would have would not have been there to allow my mother to pass at home and I would have missed many other things in my life.
I am happy for my health, my job and my loved ones.
I’m thankful for God’s constant provision. He led me to this place where I live, garden, forage and raise chickens. He has not made me rich in money but in food, shelter, friends and a caring family.
Im grateful for my daughter and husband and her amazing recovery from brain surgery and for all the people who supported me through her rough illness.
I am thankful for a wonderful husband and a having time spent with my grand daughter. I a thankful to live on a healthy happy farm. I am thankful for a healthy flock of chickens, ducks and pigeons. And most importantly I am thankful to live in the United States where I am free to live my dream of owning a farm. Thank you to all our military for protecting us.
Living the dream in the panhandle of Florida
Lois
thankful for: wood for the stove, food in the fridge, family at home and close by. Life here on the mountain may be simple, but we are blessed.
I am so thankful that our daughter, who is a missionary helper in Mongolia, is well this Thanksgiving. She had a large tumor and came back to the states in February to have it removed. They did surgery and found she had cancer. She had chemo and is back in Mongolia now.
She is still very tired & weak but the cancer is gone. We praise God for her recovery.
I am most thankful for the great gift of salvation available to all of us in the surpassing love or our Lord Jesus Christ.
im thankful for my friends
I’m thankful for my family, friends, and pets! Our good health and God’s many blessings in our lives!!!!!
I am thankful for rain,healthy family, a good job, plenty to eat, freedom in a land I love, ownership of farmland, grandchildren (and children to raise them), animals to raise.
I am so thankful for life! For the opportunity to enjoy each day and all those you get in contact with. I am thankful for every small thing in my life, for a smile and laughter! I am thankful for life’s most beautiful things, those who are not seen with your eyes, but are felt with your heart! I am thankful for you!
I am thankful to have someone in my life who cares about me, someone with whom I can share my happiness, someone who supports me in difficult times and who challenges me to be a better person.
I’m thankful to be alive! Every second of life is so precious! Thank-you JESUS!
I am thankful for family and friends, and all God has provided us with. There are so many that go without that I feel blessed
I’m thankful for family, friends, and all the animals big and small.
i am thankful we have a God to be thankful to. i am looking forward to eternal life, and i am thankful for that. i a, also thankful i have excellent health, family around, frienda who love me back, and a big fat turkey to share with them all.( and way too many other things to mention.
I thank God every day for making me the kind of person that knows to be thankful. my parents for starting my life on the right track, my family for being my support when things go wrong.
I am thankful for my salvation through Jesus Christ.
Thankful am I for this life, clean water, land and skies…… my cows and chickens provide…. much needed proteins for us to survive….so, family and friends as Thanksgiving nears…..let’s strive to care for our environment and love those most dear…… CHEERS!
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I am grateful everyday for my husband, 3 children, and our home together! (I can’t leave out our dog, cat, guinea pig, gecko, and turtle from that mix!) I am also grateful to live in the greatest country in the world, where freedom reigns and God’s blessings abound!
I am thankful that my brother is in full remission from cancer (multiple myeloma).
I am thankful that God has blessed me with a wonderful husband and four kids.
My mailbox can’t handle the e-mails for the turkey thing…
I am thankful for my friends, family, faith, freedoms, and food! 🙂
I am Thankful most of all for salvation through Jesus, Christ my Lord
I’m very thankful every year to be alive, after having been deployed to Iraq. It breaks my heart every time I hear about another soldier who made it home only to feel the need to end their suffering. I know I could not make it through the day without my family and friends. So please, if you know a soldier or veteran reach out to them and just give them a hug or handshake so that they can go on living for another day. Tell them how much you care about another human being. Please don’t wait, every second counts.
I am thankful for you sharing this information about the turkey. I learned some thing new today !
I thank the Good Lord for the great parents I had, for my health and family. I also am very thankful for the love of fowl that my Mom passed on to me. I also thank our troops for giving me the freedom to enjoy raising and caring for the animals I am steward of, and am thankful that the birds I have can live in peace.
I’m thankful to be an American and that Thanksgiving is uniquely our own holiday representing the harvest and bounty so hard-earned by our ancestors – regardless of which generation. I love my country, the silly turkey and the eagle!
I’m thankful for God’s love, grace, and forgiveness. I’m thankful for all the blessings that God has blessed me with. I am blessed with healthy family and a country where we can serve God and worship Him. I am thankful for all my chickens, ducks, geese, and dog. Just need to add turkeys & goats next. : )
I’m thankful for the opportunity to go back to school and get my degree. I’m thankful for my family and friends. I’m thankful for a leaky roof over my head and a furnace that works. I’m thankful I don’t have to worry about no food on the table.
I am most thankfull for the opportunity to be thankfull year in and year out!
I am thankful for family, my grankids, kids, parents, grandparents and God. Also thankful I have gotten to do many things in life that I love doing, and thankful that I love in the most free country in the world. Home of the Brave, Land of the free. Thank You also to ALL our Miltary People!!! Without you and what you all do for our nation, we would not be free, or have the freedom to do things we love in this Great land of ours. One Nation Under GOD, with Liberty and Justice for all !!
I am Thankful for my Lord, family, friends, and life it’s self. I now have chickens on our farm, and they have started laying. Raised them from babies and didn’t loose any of them… We have had a good year and look forward to a great coming year.
There are so many things that I am Thankful for that it would take a lifetime to list, even dating back to Benjamin Franklin and many of our Forefathers and ancestors. So many things are taken for granted that I write down one thing everyday to remind me Thanksgiving is every day. Today, I was Thankful I did not live in Buffalo and Thankful for the men and women who brave those dangerous conditions.
I’m thankful for my family first and foremost, I’m also thankful to live where I do, so I can learn to raise chickens and other animals and teach my kids the importance of hard work! 😉
I am thankful I live in a country I am free to worship.
i am so thankful this year for health insurance through the market place we didn’t have any health insurance for 2 years now we do and we can’t get dropped i’m so thankful my wife just got a new knee without it she would have been in a wheelchair she oh i’m so thankful now ithink about us going on walks in the park again we never thought we would be without it b ut we where drop for prexisting conditions boy and we needed it the most they dropped us well no more we are so thankful for the market place and the insurance we now have and thankyou mr president for putting this into lawwe don’t know what we would have done without it
I am thankful for my family near and far, 13 grandchildren who so far have been a blessing to my husband and I (though they may at times drive their folks crazy), my two cats for the acceptance that they give to me everyday (even after a flea or wormer treatment) , to the wonderful people at work, and to the four chickens that moved in this summer, I truly enjoyed interacting with them every day. Sounds like I’m just pretty grateful, thanks
I am thankful for family and my feathered and furred barnyard friends who make life more enjoyable everyday!
Glad that I live in the U.S.A!!!!
I am Thankful for hot and cold running water, flushing toilets and trash pick up.
I am thankful for this wonderful country I live in and my family and friends!
I’m grateful for my neighbor who raises chickens and provides my with farm-fresh organic eggs to feed my family.
Tgiving is one of my faves and since 1987 I’ve celebrated it with Tofurky, so I’d guess it’s really a living bird who ought to be thankful.
xxl
I am thankful for four healthy children. I am also thankful for living in a free country.
I am thankful for many things; God, my beautiful family, my wonderful job and co-workers, my country, my very life! I am also very thankful for my farm critters, they make my life fun!
I am thankful for my lovely bride of 25 years and four great children.
I am thankful for my family and faith community who support me.
I am thankful for my healthy, happy family
I am grateful for all God’s bounty: good friends, good wife, good soil, enough good strife, good harvest, good wildlife, good chickens and a good life.
I am thankful my family is healthy and happy and that we have a nice, warm house to live in and good, nutritious food to eat. Thank you hens for supplying the fresh eggs!
I’m thankful my daughter is graduating college in a few weeks and to have a healthy family.
My family and my chickens. Actually my chickens are part of the family.
After 3 surgeries in the last 14 weeks between my husband and I, I am thankful for life and to our Lord Jesus Christ for always being there.
I am very thankful to have another year, to spend with my family and friends. I am thankful for a wonderful husband, that has finally retired from the Marine Corp and now, will always be home for the holidays. I am also thankful for my beautiful children and grandchildren. I hope they continue to grow and blossom into compassionate adults. I have to say, I am thankful for everything God has provided me and have no complaints.
So very thankful for my amazing daughter. She makes the many sorrows of the past years slip away.
I’m thankful that my 10th great grand parents, JOHN & PRICILLA ALDEN were at the first thanksgiving, and that now the 11th and 12th generation can share in that same thankfulness to our God!
I’m thankful for a family that loves and supports each other. I’m thankful that I have a decent job. I’m thankful that I have food on the table. I’m thankful that there are people who will give their time and resources unselfishly to help others. I’m thankful to be living in the USA.
I am thankful for my family and friends. Family of course includes my cat, she is very much a member of the family.
I am thankful for my family and all that God has blessed us with.
I am thankful that I have life from God.
I’m thankful for my flock and family.
I am very thankful for my family and being able to spend time with them. I am also thankful for the men and women who serve this country all over the world
I’m thankful that I beat breast cancer, that I have a bunch of wonderful friends and family and i am thankful for my church family and the fact that i am still active at 60+
I am thankful for my wonderful husband and 3 children. I’m thankful that we’re all healthy and happy!
I am thankful that I am a child of God and all that goes along with it. I’m also so grateful for all that my family and I have always been blessed with as a result of being American citizens. Finally, I’m thankful for our six acres in Southern Oregon 🙂
it is actually hard NOT to be thankful! I have a wonderful – full life – and know that I will never need for anything – and that I will always be safe no matter what my circumstances may be.
I’m just thankful that I’m still alive, have a house to live in, and food to eat
I’m thankful for every day that I can get out of bed
being alive
I am thankful for my family and my flock which includes chickens, ducks, geese, and peafowl. Though ironically no turkeys !
I’m thankful that my kids are all alive, healthy, smart, and beautiful, and that Jesus provides for all my needs. Amen.
I am thankful for: my house. My car. My job (which pays for these!) For hot water and soap. for warm flannel sheets, and that ALL my critters go to bed with full tummies, on warm beds (usually mine!). that includes – 2 dogs, seven cats, a red-eared slider turtle (who has a warm-water tank), a 23-gallon aquarium, and, of course, The Painted Ladies – 12 laying hens of various breeds, and one young rooster. NOBODY ever goes hungry in my house – and I am SO thankful that we can share with the wild-uns as well! (birds, squirrels, etc…) it is such a blessing!
I’m thankful for learning about the turkey history (and thanksful for many things as well that are not listed). Thanks for the give-away.
I am thankful for by great kids and my thoughtful and caring husband.
I am thankful for a wonderful and loving family – two and four-legged!
I am thankful for a wonderful and loving family – two and four-legged!
I am very thankful for my 2 daughters! My parents and siblings and the love of my family and dearest friends. Most of all the love of my Lord and Savior!! Happy Thanksgiving!
I am thankful for my family, my friends, my health, my job, my life.
I am so thankful that my family and friends are healthy. I am also thankful for the two abandoned cats that have adopted my family. They have filled that void that I have had since my children have moved out on their own. Finally, I am thankful that we all have a job and a home, which has not always been the case.
I am thankful for such a loving God, living in the land of the FREE, a wild and crazy family, and the ability to homestead on our little farm. We have family serving in the military that are well and keep us safe and a strong mom taking care of my dying dad…all with the strength that God provides. Bless all of ya’ll !
I’m thankful to be sharing yet another Thanksgiving with four generations of my family.
I’m thankful my 2 with autism are now high-functioning and doing very well in school!
I am thankful for so many things. Family, faith and ability to provide for our family. I am also thankful to you, Community Chickens, for the sound advice we know we can always turn to when one of our flock leaves us puzzled for an answer.
As a foster parent I am thankful that we are able to give our two foster children a place to be happy at Thanksgiving and be able to feel at home, loved and cherished.
I am thankful to live in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan and to have two healthy, smart and beautiful children.
Hi,
I’m very Thankful for my husband! We were married 9 yrs ago on the 23rd. of Nov. (That was the closest we could get to it being on Thankgiving itself. He was wanting it to be on Thankgiving Day, but since places were closed that day – understandable- we did it the day before). He has since been a good provider in both physical & financial. His joking keeps me in “stitches” constantly. Never a dull moment around here. If I hadn’t of had him by my side these 9 yrs. I’d been a basket case!
Thank you for allowing me to tell you about him!
I am thankful for every morning I wake up with excitement for the day ahead
I’m thankful for the friends who speak truth into my life. It’s too easy to get distracted by unimportant things that seem bigger then what they are. I’m blessed to have friends that can bring me back to reality and help me see how blessed I truly am!
I am thankful for my two beautiful children.
I’m thankful for pain (weird, I know…just wait) because God allows me to have it (usually telling me, “What you’re doing hurts, so knock off the bending over/picking up something/twisting the wrong way”) as a caution- it’s my body saying, “Hey! QUIT THAT!” If it weren’t for pain, I wouldn’t be able to walk now. After an Army injury, I couldn’t actually feel anything in certain areas (in part because of the meds), and I was exacerbating my injuries because I just wanted to get out of pain elsewhere. Instead, I learned to treat the pain as a warning- stopping whatever it was I was doing. I’ve now had flocks of chickens, eggs that actually stand up on a griddle, and fluffy black & yellow chicks in my hand, all opportunities I received from the Lord because I learned to listen to pain instead of trying to ignore it. I’m very thankful for that (and also for the times when I don’t have it- which I appreciate all the more when I do!)
I am thankful that my sons and my cats and I are all healthy and warm this year.
I’m thankful for family — what Thanksgiving has come to mean for me.
I am thankful that we still have the ability to pass on to our new tech rich generations the absolute wonder and simplicity of the farm environment. From backyard chickens to container gardening, urban kids still have the opportunity to learn that food does not just come from the grocery store. We have been gardening and cooking with youth, so the the chickens add so much to the kids’ life-cycle knowledge.
I’m so thankful for my family. Without their sacrifice of time and a few splinters and smashed thumbs, my poor hens would have had to survive another Winter in a tiny straw hut in a 10′ x 10′ enclosure. This Winter they will be able to have the choice of being inside a spacious 10′ x 20 ‘ chicken shack or go out side in their new 10′ x 20’ run.
I am thankful that I have the love and support of family, as I struggle, that my faith in God makes me able to endure the struggle. That I wake up every morning knowing that i can do anything!
I’m thankful for TURKEYS!!! God Bless America & all who live there!!!!
I’m grateful for my family and friends.
It’s always about family, some of them are a pain in the butt, still they are family…………..
I am Thankful for my healthy family and the freedoms we enjoy in this country!
I am thankful that my family will all be home to celebrate Thanksgiving dinner and that God has been so good to us.
I am thankful for new experiences to enjoy and new things to learn. Years ago, I mistakenly thought I would have done it all and know most everything I needed to know by now. Technology is increasing faster than my mind absorbs; still, I am thankful for it and my loving God that provides life.
This year I am thankful for a warm place to call home, wonderful friends and family, my awesome dogs, ducks, chickens, and rabbits, my health and food to eat! Phew, that’s a long list 🙂
Family, Friends, good health and of course my chickens for giving me fresh eggs everyday.
I am thankful my family are all in good health and close so I can watch over and protect them in the current state our countries in. Also thankful for all the people who sacrifice their freedoms and life to protect the people whom can’t for themselves
I’m very thankful my son and his team returned safely to the U.S. from deployment.
This year I am thankful to be celebrating the season with all of our family under one roof and all in good health.
I am so thankful for my family, the right to worship the I please, that we live in the USA and we have wonderful men and women who give so much for us…such as my brave Marine son.
I am thankful for God, love, food, family. and good health.
I thank God for my daily “poultry therapy”.
I am thankful each and every day for my health, my family .
I am thankful for my health and home. I fell a few days ago and realize how fast everything can change. In a few weeks I should be as good as new.
I am thankful to be alive and in fairly good health!
I am thankful for the fresh, crisp, clean air around me and the blue-blue sky behind the green trees during the day and the unfathomable number of stars that sprinkle the same sky at night. Awww! Beautimous!
I am very Thankful for my restored health. I am an Ovarian Cancer Survivor, 27 years! Everyday has been a gift, even the hard days. I am so Thankful for my Family and Friends, they alone have made my life full and rich. I am a Nature girl, and am grateful to be able to dig my bare toes into a freshly dug potato field, watch a sunrise and sunset, love on all my critters, feel the bite of a frosty, clear cold day, see the glow of the sun through Fall leaves, catching the first snowflakes on my tongue…I could go on and on, and on…I am quite Thankful/grateful for LIFE! Happy ThanksLiving ALL!!!!
im thankful for the health of my family and hope that one day they all get the know the saving grace of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
I am first thankful for family & friends. Second for my wonderful flock that are my favorite coping mechanism.
I am thankful for family. My wonderful parents , my siblings. I am also very thankful for the children that i have. I am thankful there is a God ,and that he has given us the promise of seeing our family after this life.
Thankful I’m Not a Turkey!
I am thankful because I just moved from my foreclosure house in Florida, to an acre in Alabama with my children, cats, dogs and chickens. We’ve had the chickens since April and are enjoying fresh organic eggs. Moved here Oct 31.
As the years roll by, ever faster it seems, I am increasingly grateful for my family and friends, and for blessings of everyday life. Recently, two dear cousins and I enjoyed a three-way chat on the phone (we live very far apart), and after family news, we reminisced about old times, funny family stories, other holiday seasons long ago, and loved ones who have passed away. It is love that I am so deeply thankful for. Love is the foundation of all good things in this life.
I am thankful for for everything and everyone – the good and the bad. It allows me to learn from these experiences and help others who in similar situations.
IM THANKFUL-FOR THE LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST AS MY PERSONAL SAVOIR AND IF IT NOT FOR HIM THERE WOULD BE NO CONTEST BECAUSE THERE WOULD BE NO TURKEYS,NOHING CHICKENS,NO DUCKS NOT ANYTHING.THANK YOU AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY THIS THANKSGIVING.
I am thankful for my wonderful family and my friends. I’m thankful for my rescued dogs & cats. I’m thankful to have a warm, safe home & good food to eat. Good books to read & fabric to sew.
I am thankful for my first baby boy due right around Thanksgiving this year!
I am thankful for my family and good health, sea breezes and snow capped mountains, happy fluffy chickens and fresh eggs in the morning.
I am so thankful that my husband’s mom who is 82 years old and his father who is 88 are still with us for another day.
I’m thank-full for my health.
I’m so thankful for my daughter’s healthy. Last year she was diagnosis with an aggressive form of breast cancer. She is only 32, after enduring very aggressive chemo to shrink the tumor, she underwent a double mastectomy on Nov.12, 2013. Needless to say our Thanksgiving last year was not the best. She has endured 5 more surgeries, and 8 more months of chemo since last Thanksgiving. This Thanksgiving will be extra special, we have so very much to be thankful for. She is in remission!!! I would love to win this tee shirt for her, she loves chickens, and this would be so special for her. Thanks so much for the opportunity!! I hope your Thanksgiving is as wonderful, as our’s will be!
God Bless y’all! I do know exactly the pain you all are feeling, but I want you to know that you and yours are in my heart tonight. I also want to add a prayer for your daughters primary caregiver! My husband had a double-organ transplant and we were alone in going through that…yet everyone was asking how he was and not necessarily helping me his primary care giver. Just remember that no one cares for the care-giver, and PLEASE help whoever is your daughters primary care-giver. Even just to call and ask how THEY (the care-giver) are doing. Words can never express how much the little daily assists would have meant to me as my husband was so sick….
I am so sorry that y’all are having to go through this, just know you are ALL in my prayers!
I am thankful that my family and I live in the United States of America, where despite the imperfections we have great latitude for personal choice and freedoms.
I am thankful my hens are starting to lay and for my husband who is working on adding heat tape to their water bowl for this winter.
I’m thankful for the little things !
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
I thank you for this opportunity.
I thank God for his love and for the love of my family and friends.
I am thankful for water–whether it’s washing landscapes, laundry or sins, whether it’s replenishing ecosystems, our bodies or our spirits, I am thankful for water.
I’m thankful for a mostly healthy family.
I’m thankful that none of my own flock of Heritage turkeys has a date with the oven for Thanksgiving,
I am thankful for my husband and kids. I was blessed with two wonderful parents.
I am thankful for my family & health.
I am thankful for my children and grandchildren. That everyone is healthy, safe and living there dreams.
I am thankful that my husband is healthy and only one year away from retirement.
I am thankful for all the blessings the Good Lord has bestowed on me and mine.
I’m grateful that my dads Alzheimer’s has not progressed since his last DR appt because It gives us more time together
I am thankful this year for many things. My wife, daughter, niece, nephew, friends, & my pets. I am also thankful to be alive after another year of serious health issues. God has blessed my family and I in so many ways and I am thankful for each day I wake up and get to live life! 🙂
I am thankful for my family, GOD, my health, and my job.
I am extremely thankful for God, family and friends. My children and grandchildren are my reason for living.
I thank God for my wife of 35 years, our six kids, 5 grandkids and a roof over all our heads and food in our tummys
Thankful? My daughter, whom I adopted as a single mom, and who has an incurable autoimmune disorder, is in remission, is growing well, has friends, goes to school and is rarely sick. I am now married to a lovely, honest and kind man and we plan to spend our natural lives together. Our house is warm and sound, our animals are thriving, and we are happy.
There are too many things in my like that I am thankful for to mention here. The love of one’s family & friends, health, and the list goes on. I am most grateful for the adopted animals (dogs, cats and birds) that have come into my life. Not as pets, but as companions. They have shown me what real, true unconditional love is. I believe their gifts have made me a better human. For this I am eternally thankful.
Trying to remember to be thankful for EVERYTHING I have in this life, there are so many people less fortunate.
I am thankful for family, friends and being on this side of the flower bed. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Thankful for the restoration of good health in the family and for family and friends around us this holiday season!
Last year I came home from a near fatal complication and a month in the hospital just before Thanksgiving, I never thought I had more to be thankful for than that year. However, this year my fiancé also almost died of complications and had emergency surgery to save him with a long recovery. Now he is well and working again and this Thanksgiving we are again full of gratitude for our restored health and being together bound by love. Life is so wonderful when you can share it with someone who understands and loves you for who you are. Especially when you have faith in the Lord as the cement between you. It is a gift too wonderful for words to fully express.
I am so very thankful for my chickens, but I am more thankful for my sister’s new legs. Sadly, she had to have bilateral leg amputations below the knee due to a medical mistake. I am so thankful for the rest of my family also, but she never makes fun of me for keeping chickens and loves to eat the eggs as well!
I am thankful that I live in a country where I am still FREE! I am free because many have served my country and gave the ultimate sacrifice for everyone.
We appreciate your service to our country. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!!!
I am thankful for my family. For my son who was able to come home a week early so we had our thanksgiving dinner already. I am thankful that I get to take my mother who is 84 and in great health to spend thanksgiving day with my sister, something I’ve never done. I am so blessed!
I’m thankful that I awake to this beautifully county. That I can work beside my family to till the land and share it’s bounty with everyone in the world.
I am thankful for my wonderful husband who continues to love me and give me support as my health fails me. He has taken over the cleaning of my chicken coop and all the heavy jobs that go along with having 50+ free range chickens.
I am thankful and blessed that my chickens are so content and happy they lay eggs continuously throughout the year.
I am thankful for children who have grown up well and grandchildren who are a joy.
I am thankful for friends who care and are always there when a helping hand is needed.
I thank God every day for all my blessings.
I am thankful for my family and friends.
I am thankful for every moment on this earth, the good, and the bad which both work together to define who I am. Other than that, I am thankful for the opportunity to win a cool T-shirt! 🙂
I am thankful for my family’s health and my turkey hen that laid an egg today to save herself and 5 others from Thanksgiving dinner because I don’t know which one it is 🙂
I am thankful I am able to assist in raising my grandson after his mother passed away. It is a joy to have him in our home.
I’m thankful that all of our family is here to celebrate the holiday and that we can share time with some of them and call all the rest!
I am thankful for my family.
I’m most thankful for Jesus Christ my Savior !! I’m also thankful for family and friends, food,clothing and a warm place to sleep ! God is good !!!
I am thankful for my life.
I am thankful for my family
I’m thankful for my savior and my friends and family!
I am happy for my beautiful family and to have the freedom to grow and produce my own organic eggs and produce!!
I’m most thankful Napkins and White Shirts without Gravy Stains ……. and of course read really fast like a disclaimer on a radio ad … God , Country, Family, the Beauty of Nature , the blessing of the Dali Lama and the New Pope , no intentionally left out other great things that go along with being an American and with a nod to Apple Pie , Chocolate Cream Pie, Stuffing and Cranberry sauce …….
The thermostat on my oven is working!
I am thankful for the freedom we have to have thanksgiving, thankful to God and country, thankful to all service members past and present.
I am thankful for my neighbor, if it wasn’t for him I would not have been able to heat my house last year.
I am thankful that I was able to buy food for others this season, so that they might have a feast as well.
I am thankful for having a job
I am thankful to be a farmer – thankful for eggs and chickens… for goats and milk… for the land and it’s produce
I am thankful for healthy kids and a wonderful husband.
I am thankful for having a healthy and happy family, including my husband, kids, dog, fish and chickens. Cheers!!
I am thankful for such a beautiful life I have. I am also thankful I do not have to make the very difficult decision of picking a winner. Good luck
I’m thankful for my family and how each one is dear to me. Am also, thankful for being an American citizen and the freedoms that we have. Am thankful for my pets and how each one has a special place in my heart.
I am thankful for the many blessings and the protection God bestows on me and my family every day.
I am thankful for all the Blessings that God has bestowed upon me and my family.
I’m so grateful for my happy, healthy grandson. He’s the light of my life, and he loves chickens!
I’m very thankful for my family this year. I’ve been disabled now for 15 yrs. But, this year will be my 8 month old Grandson’s first Thanksgiving with us. We will celebrate with my Grand daughter, my three children, my two daughter-in-laws, and my wife, Katherine and Liam.
As a family, we are praying for our nation that God keeps his blessing hand upon us. We are Thankful for our freedoms and the men and women that have fought to make this nation free; and, those that continue that fight today and tomorrow.
I’m thankful for my family.
I am so thankful to my ex-husband for taking me back and even though we both had hardships after our divorce, he hung on to our property and mobile home so I would always have a place where I felt at peace. We started our family here…we lost our only child here….this was our history. I have health problems, am on disability and was losing myself but he helped me find my way home. All we have now is each other but that’s what we started with and here I am.
I am thankful for a home and roots. After 40 years of military wandering, Dad was in for 20 years, I was in and my husband was in for 20 years. After retirement, we finally settled in a little town with a little hobby farm. The joy of being able to grow my own food, have chickens, turkeys and ducks plus dogs and cats is heaven on earth for me.
i AM THANKFUL FOR HAVING MY FAMILY WITH ME
I am thanful for a chance to spend time with all the people i love everyday .
I am thankful for my new knees (replacements) so now I can take better care of my chickens.
I’m ever so thankful for my family, and for all that we have been blessed with. We are supporting my brother through his cancer treatments and praying this won’t be our last Thanksgiving with him…but if so, we will make it great! Thank you for the opportunity!
Thanksgiving! Thanks-Giving! Thanks is appreciation! Giving is the gift! Thanks – Appreciation Giving – Gift! Thus the meaning of Thanksgiving is Appreciating a Gift. By celebrating Thanksgiving we as a people set this day aside to show our apprecian by giving thanks! We all have much to be thankful for and we share this gift with all others. Thanks for Giving me the opportunity to give one and all my Gift of Thanks! My ThanksGiving to you! For You!
MANY things to be thankful for, mostly for my Salvation, my family and my health. A warm home, a good job. Hot apple cider on cold nights, and heated car seats. Living on a farm with chickens, donkey, horses, dogs and cats. The list goes on and on, I am very blessed!!
chickens and Labradors.
I am grateful to be alive and learning every day. I am grateful for our little farm with chickens, dairy goats, a sweet horse and two old ponies, three rescue dogs and too many cats. I am grateful for my husband and our children and grandchildren and all of our extended family and for their health and happiness, and for the fun we have when we get together. I am grateful for my friends, old and new, and those friends I haven’t met yet. I am grateful for peace and joy and love and all our blessings.
I’m thankful for whoever invented lemon meringue pie, a Thanksgiving staple in our home!
After losing nearly everything I had, I learned that the MOS important things in life were not things, but my loved ones. I am stupendously grateful for my adult kids, my dear friends, my pets, and my heart connections. Thanks for reminding us to be grateful!
I am thankful to live in the United States of America, the greatest country in the world!
I am thankful for my family and friends. Even though we do not have everything “normal” people have, we have each other and we are blessed with what we have.
I am so Thankful when my Husband walks through the door each morning when he comes home from the Firehouse! He is soo amazing, he brought me home a rescue Turkey five months ago, he is the most beautiful turkey. He’s my buddy, Beep Beep, I’m thankful for him too!!!
I’m thankful for so many things, my family and friends, children and grandchildren, my small farm and the creatures on it. My husband and my shelter dog and everything I’ve been blessed with.
I am SO thankful that I’ll be moving in 2 weeks, to a house with a yard, so I can have chickens again!!!!!
I am thankful year because I sold my house and will be able to buy food to feed my chickens and dogs as needed and not have to count out change to pay the bill.
I am thankful that I finally realized that no matter how hard times may be, I am truly blessed for having my family, my chickens, my goats and my turkeys.
I am thankful I still have both of my parents (80 & 78) and that our organic farm can provide quality produce (and turkeys) for local families.
I am thankful for all the family members, friends and co-workers that have supported and encouraged me over the years.
I am thankful for my health and being an American living in the land of the free.
i am thankful for intelligent caring doctors who have given me back most of my vision so ioo am able to help my husband take care our farm and many critters. i am thankful that my daughters brain surgery has left her seizure free. i am thankful that god continues to keep my family in his care and gives us strebgth. i am very thankful that we have family and friends we are able to share our lives with. richest blessings to each family we know.
I am so very thankful for my family.
I am thankful for so much, where do I begin? My home, my husband, my family and the great country I have the blessing to live in. I am just blessed.
I am thankful that I have food on my table, thankful for my 2 children, and thankful that my husband will be home thanksgiving day to enjoy the food and his family.
Thanks to Thanksgiving, I Get to be with all my family members.
I am thankful for family and friends, who have offered unwavering support during a difficult year for my family.
I am thankful for my faith in Jesus.
I am thankful my family lives close by
I am thankful for my health, a husband of many, many years, 11 children, 40 grandchildren, and 63 great-grandchildren who call us “BestGrandma” and “BestGrandpa” because we are great. How fortunate I am.
I’m thankful for people who care, when you least expect it.
If I had to choose only one thing to be thankful for, its living in a country where I’m free to celebrate this holiday with family, friends & whomever stops in. We donate the biggest turkey we raise every year to the nearby soup kitchen, so we share the bounty of what we’ve been blessed with.
I am thankful for almost getting through this year and knowing that next year HAS to be better!!
I am thankful we took the plunge three years ago to become farmers. We have never been so tired, excited, and in awe of Mother Nature! I am also thankful for my hens who provide us with eggs and hours of entertainment .
I’m Thankful this year for family, friends and health.
I am thankful we were able to make our dream of owning a little homestead come true this past year! We have some productive land, goaties, chickens and my beloved turkeys along with garden and orchard
I’m thankful that my hubbie is soooo tolerant and still loves me, and my three beautiful kids who are all animal lovers! I’m also thankful I have my chickens. Dogs have always been my favorites until my banties came along. They are too cute!
I’m thankful for my chickens & a successful deer hunt & garden produce to feed us since I’m only employed seasonally.
I am thankful that we still live in a free country. My family all still have their health and we are blessed to have enough to share with the less fortunate. God Bless America
What am I thankful for? For living in the greatest Nation in the world and being able to love her from shore to shore. John Wayne said it best. And I cant speak any plainer than this.
You ask me why I love her? Well, give me time, and I’ll explain…
Have you seen a Kansas sunset or an Arizona rain?
Have you drifted on a bayou down Louisiana way?
Have you watched the cold fog drifting over San Francisco Bay?
Have you heard a Bobwhite calling in the Carolina pines?
Or heard the bellow of a diesel in the Appalachia mines?
Does the call of Niagara thrill you when you hear her waters roar?
Do you look with awe and wonder at a Massachusetts shore…
Where men who braved a hard new world, first stepped on Plymouth Rock?
And do you think of them when you stroll along a New York City dock ?
Have you seen a snowflake drifting in the Rockies…way up high?
Have you seen the sun come blazing down from a bright Nevada sky?
Do you hail to the Columbia as she rushes to the sea…
Or bow your head at Gettysburg…in our struggle to be free?
Have you seen the mighty Tetons? …Have you watched an eagle soar?
Have you seen the Mississippi roll along Missouri’s shore?
Have you felt a chill at Michigan, when on a winters day,
Her waters rage along the shore in a thunderous display?
Does the word “Aloha”… make you warm?
Do you stare in disbelief When you see the surf come roaring in at Waimea reef?
From Alaska’s gold to the Everglades…from the Rio Grande to Maine…
My heart cries out… my pulse runs fast at the might of her domain.
You ask me why I love her?… I’ve a million reasons why.
My beautiful America… beneath Gods’ wide, wide sky.
I am thankfull for my summer garden harvest, for the fall veggie bounty and for the fresh eggs that my girls give my everyday.
I am thankful for living in a Country with a government you can argue with. I am thankful for the people that made that possible. I’m thankful for the people that keep that possible.
I’m thankful for Freedom!!!
family and friends
what do i have to be thankfull for…. My daughter got her call she has been waiting for for a couple years…. from the start…. I am finly going to be a Grandmother….they are adopting … Thank you for the baby in April next year and by the way I will be sharing the birthday with my Grand Baby …. mine is in April also…Thank you so very much to the Birth Mom for this lovley treasure ….
I am so thankful for family, friends and all that God has blessed me with including eggs from my chickens.
I am Thankful for all my friends and family and the love we have for one another
I’m so thankful for my family and for being a farmer’s child. I’ve got an appreciation of the people, the animals they raise and the land they care for. I couldn’t have asked for a better education.
Im thankful for my family and my dog I adopted. I am also thankful that my bills are paid,we have a roof over our heads and we arent going hungry and that we are all healthy.what more could I ask for?
I am thankful for Rosie and Phyllis, my first chickens ever! They are delightful, personable and lay the most beautiful eggs. It gives me joy to spoil them rotten. I am also thankful for my three adopted shelter dogs, my precious family and friends.
I am grateful to be living in this great country, USA. I am grateful for the ability to live life as I wish, to love who I want to, to worship who and where I want and to be able to track our progress through history. We are a great nation and although we do make mistakes, wrong turns and bad decisions we are free to do so and usually find our way back to the right path, make amends for our mistakes and carry on. We are so lucky to be this free!
This year I am thankful for my family, friends, and my farm life!! I love chicken football, strutting toms, and laying hens!!
I am thankful for getting a free T-shirt and for the fact that I was able to buy a turkey for a great price to cook up for a get together with friends!
I’m so thankful for My family, my fur babies and all my feathered family. We live a simple life, grow most of what we eat and share what I can with neighbors. I love to garden and thankful for good soil the sun and the rain. I’m also Thankful I rise every morning to see a new day.
I am thankful for my family. I love my children and grandchildren and am so looking forward to fixing them a meal and visiting with them. I thank the good Lord above for all the blessings I have received this year and am looking forward to the coming year. A year with new hopes and new dreams on the horizon.
I am thankful to be able to see my family, and have good health, and a place of employment
I am thankful to spend time with Family and Friends and my backyard flock of beautiful chickens.
I am most thankful for my family!
I am so very thankful for living in a small community where so much of what we eat grows locally. And I am so thankful to be able to look put my kitchen window and see my chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys free ranging over my acreage and swimming in the stream, well, at least the ducks and geese! They are so beautiful and entertaining and I feel so honored to be their steward and caretraker.
And how do you get the free T-Shirt?
I am thankful that no one can take away the most precious gift anyone can receive { our salvation} even though there are many polititians who are trying too Even the so called president is trying to shove islam down the throats of our children.
I am thankful for an other day, for the sunshine, the chickens I have and for the 5
guineas that live with the chickens. For family all my pets and life is good.
I am thankful for every person and every situation in my life. Some I don’t understand, but they have made me the person I am today. I am thankful I have enough to share and blessed that a homeless lady gave me a pair of gloves when she saw I wasn’t wearing any. Such a blessing in my life.
I’m thankful for my first child who is due this Thanksgiving. I can’t wait to teach her how to help raise our backyard flock!
I’m thankful that my long awaited first grand child, Avery Grace will be born Thanksgiving week! I can’t wait to hold her close and breathe her in, after what has been very hard years in my life. I only wish you were giving away a big beautiful turkey as the prize. I’ve always wanted one as a pet since I was a young girl! Many blessings to all who have written here, and may you stay as positive in the year to come. God bless you all.
Quite simply put….
I am THANKFUL for being given the chance at LIFE…
Thankful for our small homeplace with plenty of room – room for the kids to roam, room for our small garden, and room for our critters!
I am thankful for my family spread far and wide
We lost a cat and our dog this year. But we started keeping bees and chickens and the experience(s) are wonderfully distracting from the losses. I also am thankful for the community of “chicken lovers” out there that I never knew about, and that they are so willing to share knowledge!
I’m grateful for the health of my family and a roof over my head 🙂
I’m thankful for my family, which includes a rat terrier, rescued greyhound, two rescued cats and my 14 birds. They make my day to day worth it. They each bring something special to the family (yes I know each bird personally), and I hope that I can give them back even a fraction of the joy they give me.
I am thankful for family and friends ( and my chickens) that help me to clear my head after a day of 106 grade 1-4 students 🙂
I am thankful just to be alive every minute of every day
Thankful for this chance at life and all of it’s happenings to experience.
i am thankful for the health of my family especially a 41 yr old niece who recently, after a year of chemotherapy, /surgery has been given the all clear-she has 3 small children who will receive the greatest present this holiday, their mom.
I am thankful for all my friends and family. I am also thankful for the many things that god has brought into my life and for helping me on my journey thru life.
I’m thankful for the recent ordinance change in my county allowing backyard hens in residentially zoned districts. Finally allowed to get my girls!!!!! We’re so EGG-cited!!!!!!!!
I have Lupus so I am glad to be alive. Spending time with my children and grandchildren is a real joy and they are all very busy but still generous with their time. I am blessed to have the time and money to cook for them.
Most of all I am thankful for this wonderful life that I have been blessed with. I am thankful for my family and friends, my good health, and the compassion that I feel for those less fortunate than me.
I am thankful to be alive an healthy. I am thankful for a loving family and wonderful friends
I am thankful if I can find a job, real soon
I am thankful for all of my life experiences, even the bad ones for they have taught me so much.
I am thankful for the memories my Grandma left me with.
I am so thankful for my family, friends and country (US) that I live in.
My family!
I am thankful for my best friend. Without her I would be so lost and alone.
I am thankful for my father, whom I nearly lost this summer to congestive heart failure. A quintuple bypass later, and many complications along the way; thank God, my father is still here…My love for raising chickens came from my father, whom had raised 100 to 200 meat birds a year through all of my childhood years. Everyone in my family, my mom, dad and 3 other siblings had a hand in processing these birds in an old fashioned assemble line, from shed to freezer.
Not many folks are this self efficient these days, but I carry on this tradition learned from my papa, and most times process my birds myself, from coop to freezer. I don’t mind it one bit, and will continue to do it until my health tells me otherwise. I also have egg layers; leghorns, cochins, barred rocks, a couple silkies and of course always looking forward to adding more in the spring! some of my oldest are 6 years old and still laying. I also took a try in raising ducks, I have 5 Pekins and 3 Swedish ducks. They give me eggs also, but most importantly time with my dad. I put an old bench in the duck pen/pond area and from time to time my dad and I sit there together, he just loves watching those silly ducks. We talk about lots of things there. But it just puts a big ole smile on my face to see that man happy! Amen!
Im thankful for a chance to have somectime to hav3 some awesome memories in th3 time i have left now.i have mad3 so many mistakes and n8w that i realise what i need to focus on, im so grateful to have the time to do it.
I am thankful that we adopted our Weezy dog 6 months ago at the age of 15. We said goodbye on November 15th and we are heartbroken, but we are so happy we got to give her a good last part of her life. My life mission is to spred the word of how wonderful it is to adopt a senior dog and to help them find forever homes.
I’m thankful for my health ! I’m also thankful for everything going on in my life whether it seems good or not because I know in end it will all work out for my good 🙂
I’m thankful for family and thorough doctors. Had a cancer scare this year but now am cancer free
I am so thankful that Obama cannot be re-elected again!
Hell yeah, lol!
I am thankful for all I have, and all the things I have been denied. Gives me something to stride towards!
I thank God everyday for all His blessings given me and my family and thankful for that He sent His Son here on earth to die so we have the chance of eternity with Him
I am thankful that next year we will finally be able to realize our dream of moving to our property and starting a small farm.
I am so very thankful for my wonderful family. We suffered a major loss when a loved one passed very unexpectedly this summer an are all still a little shell shocked, but it has truly made all of us draw closer together and appreciate each other so much more. I am thankful that we are together and stronger and learning to find our way with a big piece of our hearts missing.
I am thankful for the beauty and abundance the Earth offers us each and every day!
I am thankful for my health and the health of my loved ones. I am thankful for my two rescue dogs who are the perfect thing to cuddle up with on these cold nights. And I am thankful for good things to read, like this article!
I am thankful for my two amazing kindhearted beautiful daughters! <3
I am thankful for my family., especially my husband of 29 years, Jim. He is always there for me through sickness and health and there has been quite a bit of the sickness the last 10 years. I am grateful for all the animals that I get to share my life with also. They help me to be a better and more compassionate person. I am grateful to have a job that even though quite frequently challenging, funds my need to surround myself with my furry and feathered friends. I am very aware everyday that I am blessed.
I am thankful for home, daughters and health
I am thankful for my family and all of our health. I am thankful to be able to have enough land to keep goats, chickens and ducks along with our bunny and dogs. Thankful I am able to work the land and harvest what we sow to help us in our endeavor to become more self sufficient.
I’m thankful for a strong family bond
I am thankful for my two kids and my wonderful husband. Without them them in my life I don’t know where I’d be and for that I’m forever grateful.
I’m blessed in my life with the things that really matter but particularly this Thanksgiving, I’m beyond thankful to have my husband, a Navy Seabee, home with us for the very first time!! There are no words to express our joy! Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! 🙂
I am thankful that I am still here
Doy gracias por la familia de sangre y la escogida por mi (amigos) pues día a día me sostienen y me aman con mas fuerza siempre incondiconalmente
I am Thankful for our health, the food we have to eat, and a warm home to sleep in because there is alot of people who are hungry and without a warm bed to sleep in. I am also Thankful for my two boys and my husband who I love and appreciate everyday we all support each other as the days go by. I am also Thankful for our Freedom in this beautiful Country the United State and a sincere Thank You to our Troops who have Sacrafice for our Freedom from my Heart
I’m thankful for the well-being of all my family.
I am thankful for my family and our cozy little home!
I’m thankful for my silly, silly dog, my equally silly chickens, and the ability to laugh freely.
I am thankful that I live in a country that has allowed my to be who I am.
I am thankful for my family and friends. For the food we raise and the roof over our heads.
I am thankful for my family. I have great parents, a wonderful sister and her hubby and kids, my sweet husband, our girls, my mother-in-law, and aunts, unvles, snd coysins whom I love and they love me.
I am thankful for my Family, Friends, and Facebook Friends! <3
I’m thankful for just being…
thankful,for life, family and friends
I am thankful for my beautiful daughter, our good health and the strength to go back to college after 20 years. Also for all the encouragement from friends and family and my daughter.
ive been close to death 3 times in the past 4 years. I’m happy to be alive and doing well, and will be spending Thanksgiving with loving family and friends. This is the best gift of all: life, health and good people.
I’m thankful for my 6 wonderful grandchildren and a wood stove to keep us all toasty warm this winter.
I am thankful for my health.
Thankful for people who want equality for all.
I’m grateful for my loving family where cousins (and 2nd and 3rd cousins too!) feel more like siblings and for wonderful friends who feel more like family. I’m also grateful for the wonderful man by my side who is walking through life with me as we continue to overcome trials knowing it will get better ❤
I am thankful for my 2 year old son, husband and unborn child (due in March).
Im thankful for my children.
i’m thankful for all my friends a family that have stood by me all of 2014 its been a long hard year.
I am thankful to have enough, to be able to help others who don’t, and to have a fantastic quiver of friends (and a bunny).
I am thankful for my family who stick with me thru it all.
I’m thankful for everything I have.Times are rough,but I always know it will work out-and I’m very thankful for feeling that way!
I’m thankful that God has been with me all this year in spite of my weakness and shortcomings. He never fails me.
Wow, this is tough because There are so many things. Every day I thank God for things I am thankful for. Him bringing Brian into my life and knowing how great we would be together, our life on our small farm, our farm critters also known as family, our ability to learn and want to learn how to be more self sufficient. I am grateful for 1 1/2 jobs…so many don’t even have 1. And even though it has been a little rough the past year, we still have pretty good health. Thank you God for everything and for picking us to live this life!
I am thankful for my son and his help with our chickens. He’s only 2 but he’s already a big helper. 🙂
i am so very thankful that this year my husband finally gave in and said ..yes, Sand.. you can have some chickens. i’ve been talking to him about it for 7 years and he had always said no…because we live in Maine, surrounded by forest and wild animals come in the yard frequently..they will just die..he said. so on June 12th..i picked up my 7 day old chicks and brought them home.. 🙂 it’s now 5 months later, and my husband has built them a strong, sturdy chicken yard attached to their coop. he goes out some evenings to give them treats and those chickens make him smile. i hear him telling anyone and everyone that if he had known how much those chickens would change Sand..i would have said yes to her years ago!!!! i love my 6 hens and my rooster and that is what i’m most thankful for this year.
I am thankful for my family. friends and pets! They bring joy to my life!
I am thankful my family is healthy. I am thankful I still have my parents. And I am thankful we will all be together this holiday season!
I am thankful for the health and presence of my family.
I am so thankful for my family, even more this year than I have been in the past. 2014 has been a bumpy ride, but we’ve cleared the highest of hurdles and things are starting to get a little easier. I for one am looking forward to sitting down with everyone for a fantastic turkey dinner on Thanksgiving Day!
I am thankful that I know Christ died for me, that I might have eternal life, and I am thankful for my family, and the love we have for each other. I am thankful for our home, and I am thankful that God is our sufficiency.
I am thankful for good health for my family and pets! I am also thankful to be able to have a family thanksgiving this year! I am thankful for so many more things but there is too many to list! Thank you for the opportunity to win! I hope you have a great Thanksgiving!
This sounds cheesy, but I am so thankful for my health. I have been through so much this year, but I am still kicking and that means so much.
I am thankful for my family!
This year I have so much to be thankfull for, 1st My oldest daughter had a close call with a possable cancer scare thankfully every thing came out ok. Then #2 my youngest grandson also had a possable cancer scare with his stomach. With the grace of god all is ok. To top it all off I’ve had heart problems but I’m doing ok. That is what I’m sooo thankfull for my family is all ok.
Thankful, of course for friends and family. This year I am especially thankful for my 7 rescued dogs and 30 rescued birds. It is our first year with chickens, so I must add them to the list too!!!