Our house is already decorated for Christmas. We do this for two reasons. One, we have little kids and they LOVE Christmas. Plus Elf-E (our Elf on the shelf and future blog subject) helps keep an eye on the kids. Plus the girls love the magic of Christmas, so tough if you don't like it that we usher in the season the weekend before Thanksgiving. The other reason is we want to have the house decorated for this day when everyone comes. Patrick generally says "Christmas? Its just now Thanksgiving!" True, he does have a point but he sort of misses the larger idea. For Brooke and I, this is all we could ask for on our Christmas list so in that sense, tomorrow sort of is Christmas. Tomorrow we will all be here together, something that doesn't happen often. Something that makes Brooke and I so very happy. Christmas will come with chaos, rushing from place to place, time lost in the car. Tomorrow is calm. Tomorrow is sitting in front of the TV, fires in the fire place, good conversations, good drink, GREAT food. Tomorrow Patrick, is our Christmas.
We will all have a great day together. That is something to be so very thankful for. Brooke looks like she swallowed a basketball, her trip to the Dr. yesterday gave us confidence of a healthy heartbeat. That is something to be SO very thankful for. My parents have been married 42 years, that is CRAZY. Brooke's parents (married forever too) are both Cancer survivors- that is so very fortunate. There is much to thank the good Lord above for. We all have things we would like to improve on, issues that keep us up at night. Maybe health, maybe money, maybe love in our life, but tomorrow we will all have each other. And that is the greatest thing to be thankful for. So no matter where you will be or who you will be with remember these two things 1) We have so much to actually be thankful for and 2) There are so many people who have less and would give anything to be in your shoes.
Happy Thanksgiving to all, and to all a good night.
So great it will take me a while to craft a response. The final reason did so touch me.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your father. I am quite moved and impressed that you can express yourself so well about the things that mean so much to you.
ReplyDeleteWow--yesterday was great-Thanksgiving, a little Christmas and wonderful family. Thought a lot about your second reason in this post. So true--in the midst of all the crap, some normal and some not--we do have a lot to be thankful for. You guys are great parents, yrj girls just take my heart away every time and Keith, Rojo, Sparky, the whole ball of wax. Not to mention those killer dumplings. Loev you and that fire in the fireplace really worked. Great Day.
ReplyDeleteJust saw a special on high school football head injuries and also a friend of mine's daughter has had her cancer return. She is about 19/20. So yes, we all do have a lot to be thankful for. Thanks to you for reminding me of that. I need to hear it now and then. Love you.
ReplyDeleteBoomer you will be glad to know that Patrick and I put up our Christmas Tree when we got home that night from your house. So, yes, we put it up on Thanksgiving. It was very very strange to both of us but reguardless I think this may be a tradition. And he even did Black Friday and dare I say, he liked it.
ReplyDeleteWe had a great time, even though I still have a welt on my forehead from where Dr. Caroline smacked me with a plastic otoscope.
ReplyDeleteI don't think she is a real doctor.