1. For family, whether “by blood” or the people you’ve met in your life, that always make you feel at home.

2. For parents and guardians who most of the time they did their best, and maybe if you got lucky, will always be some of the best people you know.

3. For mothers who were the first people to love you, who nurtured, who taught, who cheered, who supported; who carried the pains you couldn’t.

4. For fathers who love you like you like their prized possession, who disciplined, who protected; who gave everything they could for you to be everything you are.

5. For brothers who were your first friends, who teased and taunted but would never let anyone hurt a hair on your head.

6. For sisters who were some of your first friends, who you fought with and fight with, but will never let anyone hurt a hair on their head

7. For your significant other – that you can find someone to love, who doesn’t have to love you, but loves you anyway. And that you met them at the right time, in the right place, is nothing short of a miracle.

8. For your many significant others who are your true friends, who make life a lot easier to go through, and who love you more than you deserve.

9. For teachers who partook in your formation, who saw things in you that you didn’t, and who challenged you to do your best.

10. For pets and all animals we encounter who give us free and unconditional love. (Especially dogs of course.)

11. For good health if you have it, one of life’s greatest pleasures. For any good health at all.

12. For a body that allows you to function in any way.

1. In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states.