LOVED your Thanksgiving memory. Warm fuzzies surrounded me just reading it ...until I got to the last few paragraphs! But in all seriousness, the beginning sounded straight out of a movie!
For whatever reason, Thanksgiving was a holiday my family rarely gathered for and after my mom died I almost came to dread the holiday. But Christmas . .well that is another story, my family was always able to pull that off! Of course when I married the man I am now separated from . . his family had movie type of holidays. The kind where you sit around the dining room table and sing carols while someone played the piano in the background. I remember my first experience with his family . . I felt very . . out of place. It was a weird moment of experiencing exactly what I wanted but yet still feeling very uncomfortable with it.
Now that I am "single", the holidays this year are different. My Thanksgiving this time around was . . .better than I could ever imagine. I flew back home and spent it with my aunt and cousins. I remember thinking how nice it was to actually spend a holiday with MY family as we always spent the holidays with his family. Mainly . . because deep down I was ashamed that my family wouldn't measure up to his . .amazing right?
And now . . .Christmas awaits us in just a few weeks. I can't wait until it's over. I know my mood has alot to do with my personal situation of being separated/divorced but the other part of it . .is also just sick of the whole Christmas scene.
Wow. . .I must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed! I didn't mean to turn this post into a depressing tale!!
So Rural Mom . .I have a question for you . . let's backtrack a bit and recapture the year.
How has 2009 added to your life? Were there any moments of personal growth? Any a-ha moments you just have to share? Any life altering experiences? Anything???
xoxo,
Yuppie Girl
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