Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving. For the past few years, it's been a bit of a struggle. With Eric's sister out of the state and, essentially, a fight for their attendance between our side and Kimber's mom led to us conceiting Thanksgiving Day to them in order to have a random weekend between Thanksgiving and Christmas for our celebration of both holidays. It didn't upset us so much as frustrate us, because we could see the frustration it caused Kelly and Kimber with the scheduling of the kids (since Kelly's two boys need time with their respective fathers, as well). And their location in KY just made it that much harder.

Well, they're back in Indiana now, and essentially have to drive by our house to get to Kimber's family in OH, now, so at least now we know we can schedule either an early or late dinner and get to spend some time with them. Gives them a break in their drive and two solid meals for the day - nothing wrong with that option. So, "YAY!" We got to spend Thanksgiving evening with them! Which means we actually got to cook a turkey with all the fixin's and actually feel like the long weekend off work had a purpose. And with it being an actual dinner (at dinner time), we didn't have to get up super early to start things. So it worked out nicely as a pretty laid back day that ended with a nice dinner and family time.

And it makes it really that much nicer with the kids getting as old as they are. There's really not much longer before they start being reluctant to want to do family stuff - next year we have Paige turning 13, AJ turning 12, Payton turning 10, and Nolan turning 8. They're not so little anymore! It makes me think about my side of the family with Darian and Kris both in High School!

*sigh*

Time just flies by so fast - enjoy time when you have it - am I right??

So Thanksgiving just felt 'normal' for once this year. It's nice tohave some regularity in this crazy world sometimes. If nothing else, it lets you slow down and just enjoy life.