You are not only should be thankful for your family around the holidays, but all of the people that surround you in your life. To be blessed with not only our blood related relatives, but for the ones we tell our secrets, and most important things in life to... our best friends. Something that my friends and I do at school is the Sunday before Thanksgiving, we gather together and we have a "Friendsgiving." We do this right before we go home to celebrate with our families. As well as, I am so grateful to have a wonderful close family at home, some of my friends' do not have that so they look forward to our "Friendsgiving" we have each year. It is a nice holiday hoorah and even though you guys aren't the greatest cooks or bakers, that is the fun of it all!

This year, something funny happened, my friend messed up our rotisserie chicken, and it wasn't fully cooked! And you know what, we all laughed about it. The food isn't as traditional as your family's Thanksgiving dinner, it usually consists of random food choices, but you all sit around a table enjoying it. Each person is expected to bring or make something, like to die for pumpkin pie or yummy seasoned mashed potatoes and endless stuffing.

My Friendsgiving this year consisted of a really good group of us reminiscing about how we all became friends our freshman year of college, listening to the good and the bad memories, while drinking many glasses of wine and eating until we felt sick. Everyone brings their own type of spunk to the table. You could sit there for hours going through all through the stories you have been through together. Creating traditions with your lifelong connections holds such a special and warm place for your heart. Being grateful for the strong bonds of people that have stayed by your side through the ups, downs, and in betweens. These are the people who aren't aka "forced" to love you for who you are, instead they have "chosen" to love you. Think about it if you didn't cross these paths with these people at that current day or month in your life, you maybe couldn't have met these beautiful souls sitting around you.

Create your own Friendsgiving this year and show your love and appreciation for all of your friends, and the close bond you all share. Build something that will last for years, think about it when your 30 years old, you will look back at your first Friendsgiving when you were 20. That is the beauty of it all.

"Give Thanks For A Little And You Will Find A lot.... Trust Me On That."