On Thanksgiving Day I saw so many Americans enjoying themselves. Their children dressed in their finest clothes, mothers working very hard and still having time to take care of their young.

I don't think there is another country in the world that can compete with our women. They work 9-to-5 jobs, and what a job just to get started in the morning making breakfast and getting the children dressed and off to the baby-sitter or school.

Her husband watches this routine every morning before going to work as his wife tends to him too. He thinks he is the male lion of the den. She is busy looking for his shoes and the right tie or shirt, and feeding him before she goes off to work where she has to put up with a grumpy boss and make his coffee because he can't or just doesn't know how. She must always be there for her boss's beckon call, answering the phone, filing papers, and putting up with his helpless attitude.

After work, She goes back to the baby-sitter or school for the children and hears the complaints, and its home again where she has to put up with the lion of the den. Cook and clean, screaming children, how does the American woman still manage to smile?

It is time for us men to stop taking our women for granted and help more around the house, show our appreciation with kind words here and there, and surprise them with flowers and a dinner out now and then. Let's open our eyes to what we have in the American woman.