Thanksgiving was fantastic, the best ever! Ryan and Gram Gram had done most of the prep work days before,
the food was marvelous and the company even better. There is a lot to be said for staying home to enjoy the holidays.
I only have one complaint. When we began taking pictures in the hopes of getting ONE halfway decent shot
of the seven of us (no easy feat with two toddlers) I found that a mysterious woman had snuck her way into our home.
"Who the heck is that?" I cried when Kory began looking through the shots on the computer screen. "Why honey,
thats you." replies the love of my life.
"What! You gotta be kidding! Am I THAT fat? Help! Murder! Roll back the red carpet the fatty is coming!"
The next morning I bite the bullet and step on the scale. HORROR!! I will not shock you with the actual reading
as it may send you into a coma, the number being so large, but I will share that the last time I saw those same digits I was
about to give birth to 9 pound 4 oz baby Ryan. GASP!!
Time to face the music, pay the piper, cash in my chips (before eating any preferably) bite the bullet.....
And do what exactly? Exercise with the three babies...jumping my fool head off to the tune of the Wiggles
on the big screen? Cut my calories...HAH! Not while breastfeeding anyway. Okay, okay, I can stay away from the junk, but is
that really a reasonable expectation from a confessed choc-a-holic?
Maybe I will consider it, we'll see. Or maybe I just won't EVER let anyone take a picture of me again!
Anyway, when you receive your family Christmas card in the mail. Ignore the fat woman in the photo, we don't
know who she is.
My Favorite things about Thanksgiving:
My house filled with the aroma’s of the
feast
The beautiful children playing at my feet
An “open house” and having friends and
family stop by
Capturing our family Christmas photo at
some time during the day
FOOTBALL
Memories of Thanksgiving past
Eating a dinner almost entirely prepared
by Ryan and Gram Gram
Reflecting on all we have to be thankful
for
Thanking God for all of our blessings
LEFTOVERS!
Happy Thanksgiving from the home of the
Peterson Posse to yours!
Do you remember Jim Croce? How about his song "Time in a Bottle"? Every now and again this song (or parts
of it anyway) play over and over and over in my head, I LOVE the words. It goes something like this:
"If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do, is to save everyday until eternity
passes away just to spend them with you. There never seems to be enough time to do the things you wanna do once you find
them. I've looked around enough to know, that you're the one I wanna go through time with....."
Anyway, time....time flies... I never thought I would be able to say "20 years ago I.." this
that and the other thing...well guess what! I'm there!
Did you know that:
20 years ago I graduated from highschool
20 years ago I began voting
20 years ago I lived in Las Vegas
20 years ago I began working for the LADWP
20 years ago I drove a Honda Civic
20 years ago I worked as a telephone operator
20 years ago I weighed 20 lbs less!
20 years ago I worked out 1 hour every day
AND
20 years ago I dreamed of:
graduating from college (done)
being a teacher (done)
being married to a wonderful man (done)
being a stay at home mom (done)
being a foster parent (done)
adopting (done) (done)
having a large family (done,done,done,done,done)
writing (always an on going process)
How exciting! I wonder what the next 20 years will bring, I better start dreaming!
