It’s been a great year around the ol’ Plunkett Shack this year. We’ve had ups and downs, but it has been a blessed year all around.

I’m thankful for my beautiful and awesome wife who keeps me in line and makes sure I’m where I need to be, when I need to be there.

We are thankful for our smart, funny, silly little boy who is currently fascinated by the Macy’s parade and is standing in the middle of the floor in his dump truck footie pajamas.

I’m thankful for a job that I don’t hate, that is rewarding and despite some long hours doesn’t make me want to jump off a bridge.

I’m thankful that our family is close, that our love for one another outweighs how crazy we can make each other from time to time.

I’m thankful for the abundance of my life, even though I don’t regularly slow down to realize just how much I have.

Most of all, I’m thankful for a God who loves and watches over me and my family, who gave his son in my place to make it possible for all of these other things to fall into place.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Yes friends, it’s that time of year again… it’s still hot, but the beginnings of fall are coming around and all over the world people are gathering to celebrate.

Magical season, it be mateys… Avast ye! This be one of the most important holidays each year… International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Aye, it be no Christmas or Easter, but coming in first isn’t all life is about! ARR!

So if you read this too late to celebrate this year, smartly mark next September 19th… for TLAPD will continue!