Happy Thanksgiving!

I would like to wish everyone out there in the world, a Happy Thanksgiving!
I would like to share how my Family Celebrates this wonderful Holiday.
We start making dinner the day before and we make the pies, and then we do the rest the day of Thanksgiving.
We make our mashed potatoes and we make a traditional Norwegian Food called Lefse.

Then we make the rest of our meal listening to our favorite music.
After dinner, we try and make a point that Thanksgiving is not all about the Food.
We read poems and read stories and we enjoy each others company.
To me, Thanksgiving is a wonderful way to connect with my family and learn about how we each celebrate.
This Holiday is very special to me and it's one of the days that I am most grateful for my wonderful family.

The Mud or the Marshmallow.

To all the parents out there who are reading this, and everyone else.........
If you have children, what do you want for them?
Do you love them?
If you do, then how do you show it?
Do you send them to school everyday for eight hours to sit and be quiet and to be told what to think and what to do and what to say and what to do with their lives when they grow up?
Or do you teach them at home to respect and love others?
Do you scold them every time they jump on a couch.
Or do you praise them for having such strong legs?
Children are pushed down by strong hurtful words.
And they are lifted up by beautiful praises.
Do you want your children to be harmed?
Do you want their self esteem to diminish and fade away?
The schools today have one goal.
To destroy and control the young minds of small children until they are old enough to think for themselves and when that day comes, they don't know what to do except what others tell them to do.
Do you want that for your children?
Children are so precious and so pure.
Its like putting a beautiful marshmallow into a puddle of mud and telling the marshmallow to swim in it and to drink it and to become the mud.
But that wonderful marshmallow has so much potential and so many opportunity's to become whatever they want to become.
So make a decision,
The Mud.
Or the Marshmallow. 
They don't mix.