Just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving! I’m probably cooking, cleaning up after the cooking, or recovering from the eating. I hope you got to spend the day with good company and good food whether you celebrate Thanksgiving today or not. I’ll be back when I recover from the turkey coma.
One of my biggest gratitudes in life is my husband. We met through friends. My best friend is married to one of his best friends, and they decided to set us up. The first time we talked on the phone, we talked for hours. His phone kept cutting out and he kept calling me back. [...]
Today I’m grateful for the baby. Every day I’m grateful for the baby, but today I’m focusing on it. I’m grateful that conceiving went fairly easy–it only took us two months of trying. I’m grateful that my age and weight don’t seem to be creating any huge problems. (Fingers crossed that I didn’t just jinx [...]
Okay, this one is a bit weird, but it’s Saturday. I can be quirky, right? Today, I’m grateful for squirrels. Not just any squirrels, but the ones that live in my neighborhood. We have mostly brown squirrels, but we also have one white one. I don’t think she’s albino. At least, she doesn’t have the [...]
For Day 2 of Thankfulness Week, I’m focusing on being thankful for my house. It’s an old house, built in the 1940′s. It still has most of the original wood trim and the orginal cabinetry, which is sometimes a feature and sometimes a bug. I’m not entirely convinced it doesn’t have some of the original [...]
I have to drive through downtown to get to my job. I noticed the other day that the city had put up their Christmas decorations. Our downtown looks pretty when all gussied up for Christmas, but really? It isn’t even Thanksgiving yet. I like to deal with each holiday as it comes (not including Christmas [...]