YA INDIE CARNIVAL: Thanksgiving

At the Carnival this week we are writing about Thanksgiving.  I have decided it's a good time to make a list of the things I am thankful to God for.  Sometimes as I fall to sleep at night, I kind of play a little game where I name off one hundred things that I am thankful for.  Today I think I'll keep the list to fifty.  So in no particular order, here they are:

Family, friends, colors, rainbows, soft rain, fluffy clouds, my home, fuzzy kittens, my dancing puppy, music, movies and shows that inspire me to write, books, mountains, the ocean, the different seasons, pretty trees, my computer, funny things kids say, shopping, creative people, chocolate, dreams, technology, quiet walks in the woods, food from different cultures, birds, good night's sleep, christmas lights, the people who read my books, fire to roast marshmellows over, twinkling stars, beautiful sunrises, pretty shoes, diamonds, ideas for books that come out of nowhere, things that make me laugh, candles, a warm house, the time to write, hot cocoa, cute clothes, cookies on Christmas Day, the Bible, church, freedom to worship God, online communities like Goodreads, my blog, followers on my blog, money to pay the bills, fireworks, a big kitchen, bubble baths, warm socks, patient people, medicine for when you're sick, a clean house, Facebook games, music boxes, presents... I lost count. 

Oh well.  I am thankful for many things this year. Are you?  Feel free to add something to the list that you are grateful for, and remember to check out Thanksgiving stories below on these other great blogs.  :)

	Laura A. H. Elliott author of Winnemucca & 13 on Halloween, Book 1 in the Teen Halloween Series	2.	Bryna Butler, author Midnight Guardian series
3.	Heather Self	4.	T. R. Graves, Author of The Warrior Series
5.	Suzy Turner, author of The Raven Saga	6.	Darby Karchut, author of GRIFFIN RISING
7.	Lexus Luke	8.	PJ Hoover, Author of SOLSTICE, Blogging at ROOTS IN MYTH
9.	Cheri Schmidt, author of the Fateful Trilogy	10.	Rachel Coles, author of Into The Ruins, geek mom blog
11.	K. C. Blake, author of Vampires Rule and Crushed	12.	Patti Larsen, The Hunted series and The Hayle Coven series
13.	Courtney Cole, author of The Bloodstone Saga	14.	Amy Maurer Jones, Author of The Soul Quest Trilogy
15.	Dani Snell's Refracted Light Reviews	16.	Fisher Amelie, author of The Understorey
17.	M. Leighton, Blood Like Poison Series, Madly, The Reaping	18.	Abbi Glines, author of Breathe and The Vincent Boys
19.	Kimberly Kinrade, Bits of You & Pieces of Me, Forbidden Mind	20.	Madeline Smoot, Missing, Summer Shorts, and The Girls
21.	Cidney Swanson, author of Rippler	22.	Nicole Williams, author of Eternal Eden, Falling Eden
23.	Gwenn Wright, author of Filter	24.	TG Ayer