Pre and Post Thanksgiving

Before Thanksgiving, I am like the Grinch of Thanksgiving. Instead of being thankful for things and people in my life, I become acutely aware of something I don't have. Throughout the year, I'm routinely grateful, thanks mostly to my job, which gives me constant reminders of how different my life could be, so then when suddenly everyone and everything is so focused on being thankful, I'm not. This used to last for several weeks until I figured out what was going on. Knowing is half the battle and it gets better every year. This year, I spent lots of time outdoors getting some exercise. Thanks to DVRs, I saw no holiday commercials to bombard me. I think both of those helped my frame of mind.

Thanksgiving day dinner was at the inlaws, who live over a couple of hours away. My MIL thinks dogs have cooties and can't stand it if one touches her. We were not about to leave Katy home alone all day so Shauna was going to stay home with her. I figured since I wasn't into this at all anyway, I should stay home. It ended up that we both did. Husband went to his folks where he pretty much cooked the whole dinner. I had to run to the store for a few forgotten items and I didn't want to cook so I stopped at Cracker Barrel to get my dinner. It was the only place I saw open. They were VERY friendly to me, seeing someone getting a dinner for one (daughter had food at home) to go on Thanksgiving. I kept wanting to say "But....but.....but.....it's ok! Really!!" It was quite an enjoyable way to spend Thanksgiving and it suited my mood just fine.

Saturday we had a turkey dinner here for us and my son and his family. The inlaws ended up coming here for that at the last minute. Husband cooked another entire feast. He kept reminding me that he LIKES to do this. He made this and he doesn't even like cheesecake!



I enjoyed getting things ready for the dinner here.



So now it's time to think about xmas. I do much better at xmas than Thanksgiving, but I don't like being rushed into it and thank goodness again for DVRs to avoid commercials. I don't really like shopping and I hate malls. Yay for online shopping.

And the weirdest thing of all, I want it to snow!!