Happy Thanksgiving Every Day of the Year

Forwarded by my homeschooling and bravewriting daughter from a fellow homeschooler and bravewriter, I am sharing some of it with all of you… with some additions-

I am thankful for you...

and for all the ways you give, give, and give. (sa mga nanay ito, di ba?)

Thank you for holding back your tired, angry voice. (sa mga tatay naman)

Thank you for hunkering down with a curriculum you don’t like but can’t afford to replace (sa mga teachers)

Thank you for making magic with vegetables and healthy snacks for reluctant-to-try-anything-new kids. (sa mga manang at yaya)

Thank you for overlooking the insensitive jab from your trusted partner because s/he is stressed and being a blockhead. (sa mga mag-asawa)

Thank you for examining your motives. (sa may kinaiinisang kapit-bahay)

Thanks for exercising and/or eating right and/or taking your meds and/or trying hard to be healthy when it’s easier to give up. (sa mga may karamdaman)

Thanks for excusing childishness. (sa mga lolo)

Thank you for celebrating childishness. (sa mga lola)

Thank you for being childlike with your children! (sa mga mommy at daddy, lolo at lola)

Thank you for the thankless hours you spend comforting your teen who doesn’t even like you sometimes. (sa mga nanay ng teen-ager)

Thanks for calling that friend, or your mother, or the sibling that wears you out because they needed you today. (sa mga may makukulit na kaibigan, o kapatid o magulang na nagsisimulang mag-alzheimer)

Thank you for keeping house as best you can, in spite of the never-ending assault on your living space by all the people who love you but love your house less. (sa mga housewives)

Thank you for not falling apart. (sa mga nais nang sumuko sa everyday na hirap at pagod)

Thank you for getting up again when you do. (sa mga nabigo)

Thank you for holding it together long after you thought you couldn’t. (sa inyong lahat na falling in any of the categories above)

Thank you for the look of love that comes over your face when you consider how lucky you feel to be in this family with these people. (na sa kabila ng lahat ay taos na nagpapasalamat)

The work you do is invisible to many but well known to all of us who lead the same life you do. Well done!

Happy Thanksgiving every day of the Year!

You're awesome!