Heartfelt Thank You - no book

Hello everyone.

I hope you have recovered from your turkey slumber. Did you see the weather? Wow, hope none of you got caught in that snow storm. I know my sisters are getting snow that can be measured in feet not inches. Seems kind of early for that but I remember trick-or-treating one year with snow on the ground. When we were first married, hubby and I went to upstate NY for a visit in June and my dad had a fire in the fireplace. Another time we went in early summer, I brought no socks just slip on sneakers and pedal pushers. The temperature dropped into the 40's and I froze. Of course, the weather is wacky here too only with the addition of intense humidity and hurricanes. Silly, talking about weather, but it has been all over the news this past weekend. Anyway, hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving and are safe and sound.

In case you don't live in the USA, Thanksgiving is a holiday spent feasting, reflecting on the things we are grateful for and catching up with family and friends. It has also turned into a time for shopping, people will sell their first born child for a cheap set of high thread count sheets. Anyway, I was thinking about this blog. If you haven't been here from the beginning you might not know that I started this because I was driving my husband nuts telling him about each great book I had just read. His eyes would glaze over and I could hear him thinking, "please don't let this be about another book." So I started writing just a few thoughts down to avoid pestering him and thus saving my marriage. The Fictional Housewife name came about because I often read to avoid cleaning, which is a typical duty of a housewife. I love a clean house but dislike cleaning. Frankly, I never thought anyone would pay attention to my rambling.

I am so surprised by the number of people that are reading this and where they are from. Readers have come from what seems like every country out there, many people from Ukraine, Ireland, Russia, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Czechia, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Germany, France, Italy, The Netherlands, the USA and many more. I am so grateful to all of you. So often stories on the news about events in other countries, or my own, are terrible and bring tears to my eyes. I so wish the world was a better place, that we could learn to live with kindness and love. We all want the same things, to have a happy life with our family, that doesn't change regardless of what government you live under or what geography you occupy. To think that someone on the other side of the planet is reading what a housewife has to say about a book is so.....nothing...given the events of any day in the world and the events in any day of your life. I am shocked and moved and profoundly grateful.

Now that I've been all sappy and almost made myself cry, I will cut this off as I don't want to take too much of your time. I just wanted to tell you each Thank You.