Thanksgiving day is about coming together with family and friends enjoying delicious food and of course giving thanks this holiday we wanted to take a moment to hear from viewers like you and so we asked people across the country what they were grateful for this year here's some of what you told us hi I'm dead hangal and I live in Elbow Lake Minnesota and I am grateful for my family it's not always easy for people to get together and so I am so grateful when my kids and now are my grown grandkids make the time make the effort and take the time for us to get together that just that just warms my heart my name is Lilia Hill and this is my dad Calvin s this is my mom Frankie Hill and this is my younger brother Calvin Hill Jr and I'm thankful that the fact that we're in our new home for Thanksgiving I was in my classroom and I got a phone call and normally I never answer my my cell phone in my classroom and that day decided to answer the PO and I answered and they said uh lilan your house SPF fire and I was like oh girl stop joking she was like no it's on by hi my name is Francesca aera and I live in Silver Spring Maryland and I am happy to be able to travel and visit my family overseas my daughter lives in London with her family a husband and two beautiful granddaughters my name is Steve linski I live in New York City City and I am grateful for having a large family my mom and dad are still alive in their uh mid 80s and we have four grandchildren I have an older sister and a younger brother and uh we all get together for Thanksgiving and it's a big Feast we have um two daughters and um they are both married we have two son-in-laws we have a two sons and one daughter-in-law and one significant other and we um we'll have an empty space at our table 15 years ago we lost um our old our oldest two are twins and so one of the twins was in a car accident and so that's always different it's not any different than it has been the last 15 years but it's there's there's an empty space actually the day all the house was burning down we was in the front yard and we stand around looking and I just looked at my family said we going to build a new home and uh I am a contractor so I know how to uh build stuff our go was to be in that home by Thanksgiving and I'm very very thankful that we are in our home for Thanksgiving and we will have Thanksgiving dinner over here and I'm excited really really excited to be at home I'm thankful that we have the means to travel to visit with them because I know it's a privilege and I know not a lot of people people to do that and we are so I'm very thankful for that everyone is a good cook and and that sounds kind of strange but honestly that is that everyone has their Specialties and our grandkids all enjoy it a great deal so it's like there's a lot of we really have some wonderful meals because I think we have some really good Cooks when I'm making the gravy my mom and my sister and everybody has to you know add their two cents maybe we need more water maybe we need some more chicken BR so normally I have to shoot them out of the way they can come POS for pictures which is fine um but you know I'm I'm the Gravy Master so that it's you know I got to get them out of the way so I can concentrate on what I'm doing of all the things that we lost in our house one thing that the very first thing that we found mama can you grab it was our family bible we have we have our faith and she looked at me she just dies areas through I know there may be a family that is watching this and you're going through a tough time but I would tell you if you have love if you have faith you have determination you have your life and a little bit of humor your family can get through anything that happens love Faith determination and a little bit of humor that is a powerful combination our thanks to every one of you who sent in your responses [Music]