So, the day before Thanksgiving I usually find myself frantically trying to think of 10 things I am thankful for for the sake of not wanting to be a cynic and yet not wanting to sound disgustingly sentimental. Seems you are stuck with This and please know that This took me longer to think of than most blog posts - so, HAPPY THANKSGIVING:
1. I am thankful for hair dye. My mom passed down the Early Gray Hair gene to me and I have been gray since...........I have been gray a long time. Thank you, mom. I hate it. I hate gray hair. Last night I had my hair did, as I always do, and poof! it's gone. So yippee! I am thankful.
2. I am thankful for beer. It is the great equalizer, it deadens my senses sometimes when I need it (don't call the Depression Hotline - I am just being honest), it makes me laugh harder and more frequently, and it goes great with my favorite foods. And I am thankful.
3. I am thankful for friends with good taste because I have none. You know who you are and I am thankful for you. Otherwise I would live in a totally mismatched home (as I did for several years), and I would look like Cyndi Lauper (only without the fame to keep it all together).
4. I am thankful for sarcasm and humor. They complete me, and have gotten me out of a lot of Tight Spots. (In case you never noticed.)
5. I am thankful God gave me a son who at nine reads the paper daily. That is just a sight that makes my heart smile no matter how pissy I am feeling when I find black smudge marks everywhere.
6. I am thankful I am not in therapy. I may need therapy, but I choose to self-analyze and for that, I am thankful.
7. I am thankful Girl 1 is a wordsmith and loves to write. That makes my heart smile, too.
8. I am thankful for the dentist who said to me, "Well, baby *might* not need braces." Right after telling me the other three definitely would.
9. I am thankful for Girl 2 who has an uncanny and quite funny ability to impersonate the friends and neighbors (sorry, friends and neighbors). It gives me hope that there might just be a famous comedian in the family thereby making having the four kids totally worthwhile. KIDDING! Kind of.
10. I am thankful that you know me well enough to know that I am inherently thankful for
Please and thank you. That is all. Amen.
5 comments:
Isn't Nordstoms the best?? Currently I am Thankful that my mom taught me to cook and garden so that tonight we had pizza for which I grew the darn tomatoes to make the sauce accompanied by artichokes that I grew from seed and homemade ranch dressing for which i grew the chives. I didn't make the cheese so don't ask (See I get the sarcasm) Everyone except Grasyon liked the artichokes. I think I should have named him Mikey because he hates everything except Life cereal (and candy).
Tomorrow we are going to eat until we explode. Happy Thanksgiving and happy B-day to E. Off to write my own slightly sarcastic and mostly sappy "thankful for" post.
I am thankful for your kid playing with my kid, so I can have a peaceful moment to read your blog.
@shannon-thanks for giving me something to drool about. i will be eating virtual pizza later. and i will add this to the list of reasons why i wish you still lived here. @jamie - hahahahahaha. happy to be of service. did you see #3 was for you? xoxo
Happy Thanksgiving!
Love that your son reads the paper. Makes me think of Manny on Modern Family.
Leigh - I LOVE Manny and have only watched that show a handful of times. ;o) Hope you and your family have a blessed Thanksgiving. :o)
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