Thanksgiving 2010

Thanksgiving is the best holiday because

• there's lots of good food
  
• it's full of traditions
• you get to spend time with family
  
• there's no pressure to give gifts
  

:)

This being my first year to host it, it was a bit tiring, but totally worth it. Mom & Dad and Mary & Rob stayed for three overnights, so two full days, and it was just so nice to have no pressure to have to go anywhere or do anything other than be together and have fun and eat. We watched a couple movies - Last Chance Harvey and Marley & Me - in front of the fire. And we played games - lots of Take 2 with Mom & Mary, and a big game of Zilch with everyone yesterday afternoon. Kiff had to work both days all day long so she wasn't really around, but Phil was. He and Rob actually went to Maryland on the morning of Thanksgiving to play football with a bunch of guys Rob knows. (Rob came back with a bleeding nose and a black eye... :/ but he's okay.) Overall we just had a blast together!

Everyone's gone now, the kitchen is clean, the floors are vacuumed, the laundry is going, and I'm relaxing in the living room enjoying Jeff's classical guitar playing. :) Here are a few pics of the past two days:














We hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving too! Now the Christmas season begins ~ I'm breaking out my decorations soon!!

Almost Thanksgiving

I haven't posted anything in nearly a month! I usually try to post something once a week. Oh well. Here I am now.

I've been reading a book on heaven over the past few weeks called A Better Country, and boy is it whetting my appetite!! It's so refreshing, and so needed, to remember that this world is a dot, and heaven is the line; and that line that stretches into eternity is more wonderful than we can possibly imagine with our finite minds. Lord, hurry the day!

But in the meantime, we're here on earth and about to celebrate Thanksgiving - the best holiday of the year! In my opinion. :) I am sooooo eager for my family to come. Usually the Decker family Thanksgiving is held down at my parents' house in Lexington, but since they are no longer running the B&B, and since their little house in the woods is indeed little, and since I now have a house to host a family holiday, I offered to take on the task, and I'm very excited. It's like I'm finally a grown-up! :) It's just going to be Mom & Dad and Mary & Rob coming - making 8 of us total, because Grandpa is unable to leave the nursing home, and Grandmom is staying with him. The Schneiders are doing their own thing, and of course the Beamers are far away in Texas, and we will miss all of them. :( But the others will come tomorrow for two overnights (the Granges might stay three) and I'm just really, really eager for some quality family time with them all. I'm sure I'll take lots of pictures, so I'll be posting them at some point.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Enjoy all that good food and the time with your own families. :)