Not many indoor photos this year, but I made up for it at the park. We walked about an hour so after our feast. The kids played, the boys, big and small, made new friends and started a game of football with them. This was quite entertaining, until the cold got the best of us. We stayed overnight with my folks, watched movies and hung out with them all cozy like. Overall, a nice, sweet holiday for us. My brother Jimmy, seven years my junior, is unique in many ways and loves his family to pieces, which you know simply by looking into his eyes when he greets you with his big big bear hug. He wanted nothing to do with the idea of separate tables for small people and he insisted on finding, or creating, a very long dinner table that all of us could sit together at this year and he was successful in this endeavor. It was a big [two, each in their own right enormous, tables put together] table, seating 14 people comfortably and of course my momma's Thanksgiving dinner was fabulous.
I have been drafting an enormous list of things that I am grateful for. It started out small and turned into something big. I am still smoothing it all out and had hoped to share it here before the thankful month of November ended. Fail. OK, so I almost have it ready. I'm going to refer to it and use it meditatively to keep me grounded when I have those kind of days that we all have when we get lost, in our myopic lenses where we don't see past our own selves, lost in the mundane, the ugly and the meaningless, and lose touch with what is important, real, present, and ultimately makes us who we are. Here’s to me embracing what I just said, ultimately.
Tonight is family fun night at our school and the downtown Christmas parade of lights! Two of my four are "floating" tonight. Christmas is here!
It's Advent.
Wait for it.
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