Thanksgiving

This past weekend was thanksgiving. Steph and I had our work cut out for us on thanksgiving morning. We started our day in Visalia having breakfast with my dad, my two sisters, one brother, and their respective families. The food was really good. We had breakfast enchiladas (AMAZING), and all kinds of other breakfast foods. There were a total of 8 kids there (there were no rentals, no friends... This was strictly family). It was a good time of interaction.

I have just a few thoughts on this...

1) this was mine and stephs first holiday together... (I count four main holidays, thanksgiving, christmas, new years, and easter). I love having someone that is mine there. Before she gets ticked, ill explain. all of my previous holidays, I went stag. All of my brothers and sisters had someone that was there for them, and it has been that way for the past four or five years. It was much different. And it was wonderful

2) Kids transport all kinds of junk... a couple of my nieces and nephews were sick in the days leading up to thanksgiving... And to make a long story short, steph is currently, and has been sick since saturday morning.

3)Holidays can only be stressful when you let them. Steph and i had a plan. When we were done at one place, we moved on. It could be a combination of different things. Maybe we were tired, maybe we wanted to leave, maybe we had another lunch to eat (we only had two), or maybe we just wanted some "US" time. We were on our own schedule, and everyone knew that.

The next stop was to my moms house. Steph and I visited there for a couple of hours. There were many different stories that came up during conversation, and my mom took the time to explain to steph who everyone was. I didnt realize how much that meant to steph until on the way home when she said it made her feel like she was part of the family.

The third stop was to her parents house back in fresno. I have a couple thoughts on that too

1) I love her family. There arent nearly as many kids in her family as there are mine, and it is a nice change. Dont get me wrong. I love every one of my nephews, but sometimes, its nice to have some time with the adults... Side note one starts now (When I was little, there was always a little kids table, and an adults table for all holidays. I always sat at the little kids table. As people got older, there was movement from one table to the other. I always wanted to be at the adult table. It was my goal in life. So, naturally, as the people moved from one table to the other, the adults table filled up. So... What was the kids table, became the kids, and adults table. I am not an exclusive person by any means, but It would have been nice to sit at the adults table just once before the exclusivity wore off... )

Back to reality..

Off of previous thought, it was so nice to hang out with her family. It was also nice to get my traditional afternoon nap in. God Bless thanksgiving (and all non-work