Happy Thanksgiving!

What a wonderful day! Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I hope you've enjoyed a day of...well...whatever you enjoy most!

I slept in this morning (until my Dad called at 9:15 and I had to figure out what the ringy sound was and how to stop it) and had a perfect morning of watching TV from bed. Matt and Meredith may have had ringside seats to the Thanksgiving Day parade, but I definitely had the warmer end of the deal!

This year, Thanksgiving dinner was at my parents' house, and everyone was there except my Kansas family. The meal was wonderful - WAY too much food. And last night I did something horrible to my jaw, so eating was a pretty significant challenge, but I managed to eat through the pain. I wasn't missing Thanksgiving dinner, no matter how much it hurt!

After lunch, I was entertained by Emma and Wills, my younger cousins. This is the first time I have seen Wills since he could talk, and he had a lot to say! The two of them went outside for a while and when they returned, he was carrying a piece of tree bark. He yelled to all of us, "LOOK!!! I got a piece of ark!" (We were thankful he wasn't around Mr. Noah, or that whole piece of history might have gone sinking into the depths.) Wills' dad asked him if he found it on the ground or yanked it off the tree, and he proudly announced, "I yanked it off the tree." Then he grabbed my hand and said, "Come on, I'll show you!" So with no time to don a coat (and we were getting a bit of snow right then) I followed him out into the yard where he found "the tree" and yanked off a piece of "ark" for me.

After everyone left and the leftovers had been stashed in various corners of Mom's refrigerator, she and I went about conducting the great Christmas card photo shoot of 2007. It was comical, to say the least. This is the first year that I've put a photo in my card since Kaegan's first Christmas, so that's about five years. I was completely OCD about the whole thing - even informing Mom that if my hair day went bad or the zit that sprouted out on my chin two days ago was too crazy, we'd not be taking any pictures. So three locations and thirty four pictures later, I felt I had some decent contenders.

Now I'm home, I've had an iced coffee and a little snack, and it's time to make some serious headway on the Christmas cards.

Have a great Thanksgiving - and to those of you braving the shopping establishments tomorrow - GOOD LUCK!!!