Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

This Thanksgiving is not what we anticipated when 2020 started. Andrew, Goldy, and I are celebrating just the three of us at home this year. We are sad that we won’t see Andrew’s family, but we also understand that this pandemic is something to be taken seriously. Despite the crazy year we all are experiencing thanks to Covid-19, there are still so many things to be thankful for this year. I thought I would share a small list of things that I am thankful for to help spread a little joy:

• Andrew

• Goldy

• Our health

• Our parents (Andrew’s and mine)

• Our siblings and their spouses

• My new niece

• our extended families

• good friends, even if we cannot see them in person

• our house and our neighborhood

• our jobs

• Adoption Minnesota, for working so hard to help us and other families adopt

• the birds and squirrels that come to our yard and our feeders and bring smiles to our faces

There are so many things to be thankful for this year. Today, I choose to focus on these positives rather than the negatives. I hope you do too.

~Natalie