Happy Turkey Day! And Many, Many Thanks

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Added: Tue. Nov 25, 2008 1:48pm
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What a year! I can't believe it's time to carve the turkey, serve the cranberry sauce and collapse on the couch to sleep the big feast off. Or is that just what happens in my house?

I truly am thankful for so many blessings, and I'd like to take a minute just to mention a few. I'm thankful for a wonderful family -- including an amazing husband,


our furry friends,


my parents (who celebrated 33 years of marriage this year!) and my awesome in-laws,


my baking brother,


and my co-workers (who make every day at Growing Bolder a blast).


I'm thankful for a year of goals achieved, which included my first triathlon!


I'm thankful that in these tough economic times, I have a job that challenges me, and brings me great joy. And in that vein, I am thankful for every person that stops by GrowingBolder.com, opens the Insider newsletter, watches The Growing Bolder TV Show, listens to The Growing Bolder Radio Show and gives us the support that we truly feel every day.

So with that, here's a special salute to some of our Growing Bolder guests and friends who are certainly feeling thankful this Thanksgiving:

• Meg Gaffney is battling breast cancer, and doing it in style! As part of her recovery, she has a plan to leave a lasting impression -- on her own body! See why she has so many reasons to be thankful this year.
• Bob Marckini's journey started 12 years ago when his older brother was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Like most men, he opted for the gold standard of prostate cancer treatment -- surgery.  But Bob watched him suffer through the nasty side effects and long recovery period, and he vowed that if he was ever diagnosed with prostate cancer, he would find a better option than surgery. And he did.
• In Africa, Associated Press journalist Ian Stewart hoped to share stories from the front lines of war. He didn't know he'd become the story himself. But when a child soldier opened fire on Stewart and his colleagues, he was left with a bullet in the brain -- and a new mission in life.
• At age 68, Larry Pontius had a life expectancy counted in single-digit days. Even the smallest things reminded him of his own mortality -- commercials for a football season he might never see; pictures of places he might never get to visit. Then came a life-changing call.

What are you thankful for this year? Leave a comment below, or write a blog of your own. It will make perfect reading for the time between the turkey and the pillow.