I start off by giving thanks for my wife, my 5 kids and 4 grandkids.<br /><br />I give thanks for this wonderful country that we all live in, where we are basically free to do what we want to.<br /><br />I give thanks to my parents, but this Thanksgiving will be on a sadder note.<br /><br />At first I was hessitant to post this but ya'll are such great people, and ya'll care for others.<br /><br />Yesterday, I got that dreaded phone call that my Mom had passed away. They found her dead in her bedroom at home. She was partially cripled, having to use a walker; figured she got up in middle of night to use her potty chair and fell. I guess any thing could have happend that caused her to fall. Right now my siblings and I are holding up ok, But this is a big burden to bear right now. Mom was 73.<br /><br />Dad is taking it pretty well, but he blames himself, because he didn,t check on her more often. They lived in there on worlds, Him at his end of the house and her at her end of the house. They were married 54 years.