Over the last few years, I’ve spent a majority of holidays leaving my house with sleep-filled eyes at 6:30am, only to parade around a restaurant in a ridiculous outfit all day…hoping I make decent money to make me feel a little bit better about spending my day in the land of tourists.

Then, finally arriving home sometime before midnight and opening the refrigerator to see what I can scrounge to eat, realizing that I forgot to go to the grocery store and I’m stuck with stale pitas and hummus (no worries…I love hummus enough to deal with the staleness). And then, probably doing that all over again the next day.

I’m not complaining.

Because all of those holidays make me so much more thankful for days like today. Days where I can wake up late. Then, enjoy a extravagant turkey (or no turkey for me…) filled afternoon with my “african” family, complete with apple and pumpkin pie. Finished off by a evening of four-wheelers and a mud pit. And days where look forward to Christmas at home. Sigh. Now, that’s exciting. 

So, here’s to new (to me) traditions of mud pits and post-it notes full of things we’re all thankful for. 

i have a lot to be thankful for…

Tags: thanksgiving

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