Happy Thanksgiving!! Hope you’re posted up somewhere cozy like this today… sipping your morning coffee (or afternoon toddy)…
Inhaling something that smells like this…
Sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner at a table like this…
And wearing something like this…
As for me & Karrie (!) …Let’s be honest. It’ll be more along these lines:
Cramming as much turkey & cream-of-everything as we can in our little pot bellies… Probably watching this later…
And eating these Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Walnut cookies I just made:
…the batter bowl of which I just licked for breakfast – and washed down with half a can of French fried onions. I so wish I were kidding. I also wish My Fitness Pal app would stop asking me to log my breakfast. It’s like the bastards know.
In any case… God, who doesn’t love Thanksgiving??? Can I rap a short list real quick about what I’m grateful for?
1. Parents who kick ass. My sweet dad – aka Stevie B – who is like a cross between Elvis and a cowboy and a warm, fuzzy grizzly bear. And my mom, who just sent me leaves and acorns and some other interesting treats in a care package, because she knows Fall is my favorite time of year at home. The best part? A “ps” in the card that said something like: “Helpful Hint!! You can surround these cinnamon candles with the Fall foliage as a neat Thanksgiving centerpiece (!)” Bahahah – Jayne. God love er.
2. Having had the gift of Grandparents… the last of which, Bud, we just lost this Spring. I was so lucky to have 3 of them I was close to for a very, very long time – well into my 30’s. I don’t know many kids who are as lucky in that regard as I have been. I feel like they taught me so many of the things I know – whether they meant to or not – about how to sew, how to bake Christmas cookies, how to build things… about what’s really important and how to be a good person to the people around you. Now when I think back on my childhood and on the time they were all here, it almost feels like magic. I miss sweet Bud, Ruth and Nanny Jam all the time, but I also kinda always feel like they’re still here. And I’m so grateful for that, too. Those are sweet Bud’s tooties under the Thanksgiving Day table at our house in Columbus 2 years ago.
3. OMG – GUS (!&$#^!!!) So grateful for the most insane, sweet pup full of unbounding joy who ever lived. Did I tell you he’s flying home for Christmas with me? Yep. Pass the tranquilizers.
4. Friends who are family. I’m lucky enough to have innumerable ones… including but not limited to that gaggle of hookers, my Burris K-12-ers, and my volleyball family. I’m also grateful for my bestie and co-blogger, Karrie, whose fam I’m spending Thanksgiving with today. This is what a lot of our snort-worthy convos look like:
5. Living in this gorgeous place and finally having bitten the bullet and gotten out of my own way so I could start doing what I love this year.
Hope you guys have a GREAT holiday weekend with family & friends!! Cheers to lots of naps, Scrabble and Christmas movies on TNT… and decorating tomorrow. OMG it makes me so happy I could pee.
Much love to you!
