What an amazing, fun-filled, beautiful Thanksgiving day!!  I am thankful, grateful and immensely appreciative of the fabulous Thanksgiving my family had together.  We were 20 including 6 grandchildren, 4 adult children, 1 adult foster child, 4 male partners, 1 girlfriend, Rick and I and 1 dear friend.  We had soooo much food to be thankful for lovingly prepared for all appetites and life style eating.  There was football in front of our house on our quiet street and lots of wrestling and physical play in my house.  So much huge, loud laughter that I had to go for a walk at one point.  After some left, we had hide and go seed, doctor and policeman games with our five year old granddaughter, Katie.  So much love and fun is still rippling over me and inside me.

The next day all the women in my family went to the spa for the day and had another day of fun.  Pedicures, sauna, steam room, hot tub, gatherings in the great room in front of the fire, gourmet lunch, smoothie bar, water aerobics and afternoon tea and scones.  I loved every minute of it.  Water aerobics for me was so funny because I kept moving backwards in the water instead of forward?????????????  Lots of hugs and smiles of love as we each said good-bye and went to our own homes with promises of more at Christmas. :) 

Oh, My Goddess!!  Our family gave us tickets to the Rockettes from Radio City Music Hall for my birthday and we went yesterday for the performance.  They were performing an hour from our house in Providence Performing Arts Center.  Rock your socks off SPECTACULAR!!  How vibrantly gorgeous, the costumes, the decor, the settings, the lighting!!!!  It was fantastic!!  The dancing was phenomenal and everything was sooooo much fun and sooo creative.  Two hours of nothing but glorious dancing, singing, storytelling and sharing it with 3000 people.  The last scene was a Live Nativity with sheep, donkey, camels, beautiful live scenes, the wise men costumes of KINGS -  it was fantastic!!!!  Outside they had snowmaking machines making snowflakes as we went in.  It was a dream come true for me.  I have desired to experience the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular for years.  I am soooo grateful to our family.  Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!  I truly felt like a Goddess celebrating her birthday.

We were so blessed to park right next to the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) and walk around downtown blocks and get a snack before the show.  It was perfect.  The attendant where we parked was so friendly and vivaciously helpful.  We even were approached by a man on the street during our walk who needed $14 for some reason I really couldn't quite figure out.  But we happily gave him the money for a pay it forward generosity experience.  He said he was going to send us $100 gift certificate to Uno's for helping him.  I thought that would be wonderful but didn't even care.  We both felt inspired to help him.  There was something about him...............