It’s Thanksgiving Day in the United States. It’s a time when the whole family gets together, catches up with all of the goings on in everyone’s life. We all sit at the table, hold hands and tell all present, what we are thankful for this year.

This year we are not doing Thanksgiving at 1:00 PM like we have done in years past. This year we are having dinner at 5:30 PM. We’ll have the candles on the table lit and our pottery dinnerware on the table. This year we are having Champagne for our beverage. We’re celebrating.

This has been an incredible year for my family. We are all healthy. We all have incomes coming in; my two sons, my daughter, my wife and myself. All of our children have their college educations out of the way and (thanks to their father – me) are college debt free. We all have health insurance; no small feat in these times. We all have fairly new cars that are in good mechanical condition. I still have my 1999 Ford Ranger, and it’s in good shape too.

This year, I am thankful for you, my reader. I’m thankful for the comments you have left and thankful I have made a difference in your lives, or so you tell me. Some of you are closer to retirement than you were when I started this blog. Some of you have retired this past year and are doing better than you would have thought.

Thank You!

For Taking Early Retirement (TER), I hope you are enjoying a great retirement or are close to that day!

Jeremiah John