I can hardly believe it, but it’s been basically 2 days since I’ve been here, and not just HERE here, but 2 whole days since I’ve been on teh interwebz more generally speaking. In summary, our entire world got swallowed up into the all-consuming, yet delicious, maw that is preparing for Thankgiving when it’s going to be hosted at your house. It all went off without a hitch, the turkey was perfectly cooked, the side dishes were appropriately carb and butter-laden, there was enough food to feed 3 times the number of people that attended, and Mr. Shoe and I had dinner cooked and on the table in 3 1/2 hours flat (minus 2 desserts and cranberry sauce which were prepped the day before). We are a well-oiled Thanksgiving machine, I tell you. This comes from having cooked Thanksgiving dinner every year, except 1, for the past 9 years. Might I be so bold as to suggest that we are Thanksgiving rock stars? Because, seriously, we’re really, really good at doing this.
But anyways, this means I owe you a few more Nablopomo posts for missing the past two days, and therefore this experiment in whether or not I could post every day for a month (which I have failed pretty spectacularly, if I do say so myself) will likely continue on into December.
So, in honor of this lovely Thanksgiving weekend, I’d like to share a few things I’m thankful for.
My family. I love them; they love me. I’m so freaking amazed that these awesome people are a part of my life, and I wouldn’t know what to do without them.
My chosen family. Both the ones I see frequently, and the ones I have thanks to the magic of the internet. The support I get from these people is what gets me through the crap that life dishes out. I can only hope to be as good to them as they are to me.
My job. I have one (which is kind of a big deal in this particular slice of our history). I’m good at it, and I like it even if it drives me up the wall some days. It’s provided me with opportunities for growth and learning in my professional life while allowing me to continue to grow and learn in my personal life through motherhood. It’s a beautiful (albeit chaotic) thing.
And you know, these are the things that absorb the vast majority of time and energy these days, so that pretty much covers it for me. I hope you all had a really marvelous Thanksgiving. Now, cue Christmas music!
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