Giving thanks, in review

Thanksgiving! I hope you all had really lovely holidays, and that you got a break from whatever you needed a break from. We headed to Tennessee on Wednesday night right after work. My family are all there, and I hadn't spent more than a weekend there in awhile. It's been a strange few years for my family, but it was so good to just be around everyone again. There was the usual cooking (and eating), napping, reading, chasing dogs. And there was also a lot of catching up and meeting new additions! I forgot my real camera, so these are all iPhone which means they're pretty crappy. I'd spend time telling you how annoyed I am, but that would seem a little out of place in a holiday/Thanksgiving post.


I posted this on Facebook before the holiday, my favorite Thanksgiving-ish NPR story. A nice reminder that as much as it's our job to help one another, it's also our job to be helped. "I've only slowly come to realize that good givers are those who learn to receive with grace as well. They radiate a sense of being indebted and a state of being thankful. As a matter of fact, we are all at the receiving end of a huge gift simply by being alive. Yet, most of us are no good at being helpless, humble or indebted." Onwards to Christmas! Where's my tinsel?!

Exile on Sunnyside

A+Bro=Bromance

A+TinyBabyTyler=no, we are not yet procreating

Homeward Bound, Saturday

Aunt's house

Turkey Bowl Beginning

Dad+TinyBabyTyler (don't step in that puddle of my melting heart)

Love, real love, y'all

A+Bro+K=Bromantic Bromance

**Lastly, we saw Lincoln when we were in town. Daniel Day-Lewis, of course, right? Of course. But Joseph Gordon Levitt, get that scenery outta your mouth, you're chewing it all up!