Ten Days of Thanksgiving

Yep, it's a double post kind of day! I have a special series that I am kicking off today so you get to hear from me twice!

It's hard to believe it, but Thanksgiving is just 10 days away - where has the time gone. It doesn't seem like long ago that we were bringing in the New Year, and now we are preparing to close out 2009.

Life is busy. We work. We play. We spend time with family. We celebrate with friends. It's easy for the days to fly by sort of unnoticed and unappreciated.

But then Thanksgiving comes along and for that one day, we are kind of look around and remember what we are thankful for (in theory). We spend so much time focusing on what we don't have - I love that Thanksgiving comes along and sort of stops us in our tracks and makes us think about what we truly appreciate in life.

But one day just isn't enough. Last year I prepared for the coming of Thanksgiving by posting about what I was thankful for during those 10 days leading up to Thanksgiving and I would like to do that again this year!

So to start things off, I am going to talk about something very simple that I am thankful for.


My Starbucks Latte. Oh how I love you. When I take the first sip of my latte each morning, it fills me with joy - no kidding. That first sip is amazing, as are all of the successive sips. It's such a comforting drink for me. And I love it even more now that the barrista greets me by name! Yesterday morning I was kind of grumpy since it was Monday, but I walked into my Starbucks and was greeted with an enthusiastic "Good Morning, Lisa!" by Jacob, my favorite barrista. Before you get any ideas - no, I am not interested in him. I am pretty sure he is a college kid. But I love the guy! He's so cheerful - even at 7 am - and appears to genuinely happy to see me. And that starts my day off on the right foot.

I wonder if he knows how much I appreciate him? I feel like I would come off as creepy if I told the kid that he makes my morning when he smiles and greets me by name. Cripes - to him, I probably fall under the 'cougar' category (I hate that stereotype/nickname, by the way). Anyways, so unless I can find a non-creepy way to thank him, I'll probably just continue to smile at him and ask him how his day is going and hopefully he'll get that he's making my day.

It just kind of goes to show that the simplest things mean the world to people sometimes!

(*PS - I promise you I do not work for nor am I affiliated with Starbucks!)

Now I challenge you to play along. Can you come up with just one thing each day that you are thankful for and leave it in my comments?