Happy Thanksgiving!!

(Picture was Anthony last year- I love that turkey hat.)

I LOVE Thanksgiving. Always have, always will. Maybe because it is a holiday where the common goal is to spend time with one another, not what we are buying one another. Maybe it is because I get the opportunity to stuff my face with no judgement, even though this year I am going to be more mindful because I just found out the average Thanksgiving dinner is 3,000 calories. Can you believe that? Maybe it is because I remember my Grandma vividly on these days. I can remember when I was little looking at her dining room and thinking it looked magical. Polished crystal and china. How I longed to sit at the adult table but instead I was captain of the fold out table in the living room. Do you remember the old school fold out table and chairs that were all connected together and folded into a suitcase? My grandma's was yellow. Year after year, until I got married I sat at the kids table. By then my grandparents had moved out of the old house but I still got to sit with the adults. I am the oldest grandchild on my dad's side. He has 12 siblings, my dad is number 6, and I was the first born grandchild for my grandma. Needless to say she waited a long time for me and we had a very special relationship. Anthony was her first great-grandchild and Alex would have been her second. I find it ironic that I got pregnant with Alex 2 months after she died, we wanted a baby so bad and I am pretty sure she made some deals for us. I know that she met Alex before I did. He looked exactly like me when he was born. Not sure how I got down this path today, man do I miss her. I remind my boys to be thankful that they have grandparents, for anyone our age that still has theirs be extremely grateful. There is no other relationship like it. Happy Thanksgiving!!