Thanksgiving...

Just a brief word about Thanksgiving.
If you were not already aware, here are some facts:
I am British.
I currently live in Alaska.
Alaska is part of the United States.
The United States celebrate Thanksgiving each year.
The British do not.
This does not mean the British are not thankful for what we have, I just mean that this is an American holiday and not a British one, although the original pilgrims who started off this whole thing were people who had left the UK to start a new life in America.....so I suppose in a weird way this is a British holiday? The pilgrims were in a new land, but they had brought their old ways and traditions with them, in much the same way that I have introduced Perfect Husband (who is American) to some of my British ways, ie mint sauce with roast lamb, wearing a poppy on Armistice Day, enjoying a lovely cup of tea with milk and two sugars, learning the finer points of Dr Who, watching the rugby and so on.
Anyway, in Britain Thanksgiving is not celebrated; so if American people would stop asking me that at work, that would be cool.
Even though this is not one of "my" holidays, I still get the day off work, so I'm jolly pleased about that. I shall spend the next four days at home with Perfect Husband, eating, drinking, watching tv and maybe a spot of sale shopping. I shall have Tiny Dog on my lap for as much of these four days as possible, and I shall be very Thankful.
I hope everybody who has something to be thankful for (and that is most of us in the "developed" world, let's face it, despite our constant whingeing about our Iphones not updating properly, and that thing we really wanted being snapped up on Ebay by somebody who beat our highest bid etc) will stop and think about how truly lucky they are this holiday. I hope everyone will donate more, recycle more, want less, and love and look after each other more.
I hope my hopes spread and multiply like the flame from a torch that is picked up and shared around the world.
I also hope Tiny Dog will never be sick in our bed again, like she was last Friday night. She did appear a tiny bit sorry, so I shall be Thankful for that.
However, the thing I am most Thankful for in this life is the two amazing young women that I gave birth to. They light up my life in a way that nobody else can. They are beautiful, kind, funny, fiery young women who make me proud every single day. I would like to say that neither one of them has ever been sick in my bed, unlike Tiny Dog, but this would be a lie. However, as I am busy being Thankful, I won't hold it against them.