After spending the last 4 days in San Diego for Thanksgiving, I am finally home. I have been up since 4 am this morning & its finally starting to catch up to me. Anywho, just thought I'd share some of the highlights from my family weekend.
We had the best desserts! I couldn't pick just one so I took a sampling of each (: From left to right - pumpkin pie made by my little sis, sweet potato gelato pie, & apple pie made by my stepmom. YUM.
The next day we took the leftover turkey, threw it in a big stock pot (well actually 2 1/2 stock pots) with some veggies to make leftover turkey soup. I wish we could have let it simmer longer because it didn't quite have enough flavor, but hey, you live & you learn. It was still delicious.
After we got the soup going, we started to decorate! This is my favorite part (: We put up the tree along with some little Christmas knick-knacks here & there. These candles are so cute I wanted to kidnap them & take them home with me. These are some of my favorite action shots & ornaments on our green tree (:
Watching everyone else decorate the tree is apparently really hard work. Wiped the poor doggy out.
This is our second tree. We've had two tree for a few years now & I actually love it. It used to be that we got a real one & then had this fake white one, but now the other one is fake too & the white one isn't so white anymore (its a little more brownish now due to heater misplacements) & the lights on the top section don't work anymore, but hey, I'm not picky. We put all of our special, sentimental, keepsake ornaments on the green one as well as put all the presents under this one, & we put these fancy silver & purple ornaments on the white one. Its really beautiful. These two below are my favorite.
I truly was so blessed with the time I got with my family this weekend. Now that we don't all live together anymore & we are all spread out & in different houses & states, we don't get the opportunity to do this kind of stuff anymore as a family, so it really got me thinking about how special this weekend was & what it meant to me.
With that, starting on December 1st, I am going to be starting my
100 Things I Am Thankful For list. I did this last year & decided that I was going to keep it going annually. I know most people do the "30 Things I Am Thankful For" over the course of November, leading up to Thanksgiving Day, but I like this way better.
#1) it causes me to stretch my mind to think of 3x more things that I am grateful for, things besides the obvious,
#2) I think its a nice bridge between Thanksgiving & Christmas. I will be writing down 4 items a day in my journal for the first 25 days of December.
I am praying that God will open my eyes through this & keep me reminded daily of the thousands & millions of ways that I am blessed - not just 100 ways.
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