Dear Friend,

I said goodbye to my husband two weeks ago. Before you worry, he’s OK now. But the second week in November he had to have emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix. 

I had spent Monday afternoon helping my son build us a new tree bench and we had just realized that the landscaping stones we bought to build a sand circle around it would not work. Rather than returning the 36 super heavy (24 lbs each!) stones to the store I had the idea to build a fire pit with them. 

I was carrying stones to the location I had chosen for the fire pit and playing with different ways to arrange them when my husband came out of the front door and said our doctor had told him to go the emergency room immediately. So, of course, I stopped what I was doing and we jumped in the car, headed for the nearest hospital. We wouldn’t be back home for two days. 

This Thanksgiving Day seems so much meaningful for our family after such a scare.

Go here to read the full story and to see our fire pit.