Welcome to the special souped up Thanksgiving issue of The Tuesday Ten Twenty-Five! It’s a quick rundown of 25 little (or big) things–silly and profound–that I’m in love with this Thanksgiving season. By all means, enjoy yourselves.
1. Little Drummer Boy–your remarkable storytelling and trips to the “hug store”
2. Squiggle Bug–your unquenched spirit and tender heart
3. Baby Girl–your infectious smile and undaunted joy
4. Quiver–your steadfast hope, your gentleness and truth
5. Hershey’s chocolate bars
6. Big piles of leaves–and watching boys jump in them
7. Attention–giving and getting it
8. Kermit, the trusty laptop–I think I love you
9. Bedtime stories
10. The chance to make something right
11. Nacho cheese Doritoes–yep, still thankful for those
12. Books
13. Realizing it’s not as late as you thought it was
14. A Sonic Mocha Chip Java Cooler–saves many a frustrating moment
15. A good night’s sleep
16. Lamps and their ambient light
17. Old friends–the continuing gift of yourself after all this time
18. The Dave Matthews Band–just sayin’
19. “Coincidence”
20. Old issues of Dwell magazine–and by old I mean the ones from the last two months I haven’t gotten to
21. The quiet hours after 10pm
22. Clean, white, unlined paper
23. The Canon PowerShot–wowza!
24. Candy Corn–and doling it out before dinner
24. Honest conversation
25. The astounding and humbling power of words