Have a Happy Thanksgiving

A Brief History of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Day is now a favorite American holiday...but did you know it took awhile to catch on as an annual tradition?
According to scholars, the first known Thanksgiving took place on September 8, 1565 in Saint Augustine, Florida when Spanish settlers held a Mass of Thanksgiving after arriving safely in the New World. English settlers in the Virginia Colony held a similar day of thanks in 1619. Two years after that, the colonists at Plymouth Plantation celebrated the most famous Thanksgiving, during 1621.
It wasn't until October 3, 1789, that it actually became a holiday, when then President George Washington proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving...but just for that year. In 1795, Washington again proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving, and President John Adams also declared Thanksgivings in 1798 and 1799.
After a decade and a half without the celebration taking place at all, President James Madison renewed the tradition in 1814, and even went so far as to declare the holiday twice in 1815!
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln finally proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a national day of Thanksgiving that should take place every year. Years later, President Franklin Roosevelt stated that Thanksgiving should always be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of the month - as opposed to landing on the occasional fifth Thursday.

We wish you and your family a safe and happy Thanksgiving holiday!


Margie & Petra

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Complain Less, Think Positive & Smile!!!

What you expect to happen – what you believe in your mind – can have a tremendous impact on what actually does happen. If you're going to try to accomplish something – if you make the decision to make the attempt – the best thing you can do for yourself is to expect a positive outcome. Anything else can only inhibit your efforts. Worst-case: If you fail, you get an education for your future efforts. Minimize your doubts and be positively expectant.



Be careful to keep your personal challenges to yourself and you will begin to see what a waste of energy a complaint (or whine) is even to yourself! Once you embrace this fact, complaining less should be fairly easy...until someone around you begins. At that point, smile at them and you will be less inclined to join the pity party.



When you recoginze that you are being used for a purpose then you have found the True Joy of Life. You are the only one who can stop being a selfish person full of ailments, grievance and complaints; thinking that the would should deote itself to making you happy. The world owes you nothing and you are the only person who can make you happy!



Hope you have a great day............Margie & Petra