Thanksgiving Day is a time for family and counting our Blessings.  I understand the need for sales and bargains especially in the economic times that we are in but families have been in those times as well as the stores quite a few times since this great Country was founded.  Somehow through it all we survived and families gathered together to celebrate another year of God’s bounty and raise their voices in thanksgiving for even the smallest blessings in their lives.    It is the teaching of our children the sense of family and how important it is to take the time to be together and be thankful for each other.