It's here! It's here! And if you're anything like my family, you probably feel like you just took down Christmas lights and finally got rid of those cinnamon spice candles. Nevertheless, pull those boxes out of the attic, dust off the Christmas CDs and get on board because it'll be over before you know it. That bitter cold that I love so much is back, too, which, aside from the harsh, biting wind is very well received on my end. I don't know about you but there's nothing that brings love to the air quite like the coziness of having to bundle up on this holiday! And of course, listening to 104.1 as they bring me the best of the Christmas Hits. For those of you who I haven't told (which is few), my very favorite Christmas song is, as I titled this blog post, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. How can you not be festive after falling asleep to that?
Before I get ahead of myself: Thanksgiving. Ours was lovely. We went to Wellston and I must say, without fear of family reading this as they don't read my blog, the food was sort of a letdown this year. Maybe it's just that I talked it up to this unattainable climax or maybe it was just like any other year, but I wasn't even tempted to overeat. I guess I should consider this a blessing? About halfway through my mashed potatoes, my baby 10-year-old cousin said, "Oh, by the way, Grandma used the liver, gallbladder and heart of the turkey to make your gravy." (Courtney gags.) All of you moms are out there laughing because "everyone knows you recycle the organs." Ha-Ha-Ha. I might be a vegetarian now. Not to say that it was awful and don't judge me too harshly -- it's just that all of the sudden I noticed that there was unidentifiable floating matter all over the one side dish that I had dared to put on my plate!
Other than that, the company was nice. We don't do a very good job of getting together regularly so it's usually birthdays, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas. I guess you could say that it gives us more to talk about when we get together. I was assigned the "kid's table" because as you probably already know, you don't graduate from the kid's table until you've had 2 kids -- it's not enough to just be married! All jokes aside, I hung out with my cousins, Steph and Ash, and Chloe. We never let one family meeting go by without playing Croquet together so it wasn't long before we pulled out the mallets:
Aren't we cute?
I hope you spent your Thanksgiving loving on your family and eating tons of delicious turkey and mildly appealing gravy!
As for the rest of my oh-so-short Thanksgiving break, I spent it doing:
1) LOTS of this:
3) This:
5) And lastly, getting into the spirit of the season with our festive skirts:
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