It's great having kids around during the holidays. Mine are bouncing off the walls with the prospect of a three-day school week and four-day weekend.
It reminds me of everything that is great about being a kid. They truly take joy in the simplest of things: Thanksgiving feast for Jess and PJ day for Bec. No tests, no homework, and time spent with their cousins.
Their excitement is contagious.
I am not working this Thanksgiving for the first time in years. For that, I truly am thankful. Though I have just a few things to be tended to this weekend, I am excited about seeing my family and actually sitting down with them for dinner, instead of arriving an hour after dinner and eating alone in front of everyone, while they enjoy their dessert and coffee, which has been the norm for me on a working holiday.
I have so much to be thankful for this year. I look back at last year at this time and life was filled with uncertainty and sadness. While I still feel like I am working on getting my act together, this year, I feel much more settled. While life has not been perfect, I have enjoyed more moments of joy than sadness. And for me... well, that is just HUGE!
I hope that the same is true for you this year.
Remember to be like a kid this holiday season.
See the simplest things as cause for a wonderful celebration.
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Your website has a link to your blog and I found it there; I added it to my list of blogs to follow on Google Reader (I have quite a few!) I like to follow local blogs, so I hope you don't mind me adding it. You can add links to blogs that you read somehow in blogger (I'm sure there's a feature of some kind in site management.) Or, if you use Google Reader just add my URL there to get updates. Cheers! Becky
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