{"id":701,"date":"2015-11-26T13:32:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T13:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/safeplacewithruthgraham\/?p=701"},"modified":"2015-11-26T13:32:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T13:32:43","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/safeplacewithruthgraham\/2015\/11\/happy-thanksgiving-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All my children and most of my grandchildren have gathered. I love it. My two 19 year old grandsons could not come due to work schedules and my one son-in-law works for UPS so this is his busy season. My oldest grandson, Walker, turns 19 today! I am sorry he is not with us &#8211; we miss him.<\/p>\n<p>But that is what I am most \u00a0thankful for. My kids are home and I so enjoy their interaction with each other Each one has their own personality, they each have \u00a0heart for God and each has a great sense of humor. There was a time the did not get along &#8211; seriously they fought and argued but now I loved to hear their conversations as they give each other advice, talk about what \u00a0the Lord is doing in their lives, politics, sports&#8230; I have lived long enough to know the joy of being a mother to some terrific people.<\/p>\n<p>The birds are in the oven. We are having many for Thanksgiving dinner and Noelle was going to get one 27 lb. bird. I wasn&#8217;t sure I could fit it into the oven! So she got two smaller birds.<\/p>\n<p>It promises to be a day of food, football and family. What a terrific combination!<\/p>\n<p>I trust all that are gather at your house will have a memory-making day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All my children and most of my grandchildren have gathered. I love it. 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I am sorry he is not with us &#8211;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy Thanksgiving! - Safe Place with Ruth Graham<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/safeplacewithruthgraham\/2015\/11\/happy-thanksgiving-2.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy Thanksgiving! - Safe Place with Ruth Graham\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"All my children and most of my grandchildren have gathered. 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