Obligatory Thanksgiving Post

I'm thankful for my loving, supportive, beyond-amazing husband who not only cooked a Thanksgiving dinner--that the Food Network chefs would envy--for our entire Texas family, but also schlepped it across town to my parents' house.

I'm thankful for our divine and adorable daughter who turns 20 months tomorrow. She delighted everyone today by saying, "Happy Tanksgivink," about 5,000 times and by rolling her eyes deep into her head whenever we asked her to show us her, "funny face."

I'm thankful that Delaney got such a kick out of spending the holiday with her cousins, my sister's kids, and that my sister and I were there together, witnessing their sweet and silly antics.

I'm thankful for Thanksgiving morning yoga. Delaney and I left the house for the gym this morning to give Roger time to cook. I skipped cardio and went straight into a yoga class, one of the most intense of my gym practices so far. It was a fantastic way to get the holiday off to a great, destressed start.

I'm thankful that more than a year after I joined the gym I'm still going there. I've never made a successful committment to physical fitness in my life before this and, although I haven't accomplished my goal of losing a ton of weight, I'm proud as hell that I'm stronger and more confident in my physical abilities and that I'm on the right track to being a great example for Delaney, which was my main goal for going in the first place.

I'm thankful for starting this blog 17 months ago. It's provided me with a creative outlet, a way to preserve precious memories, the ability to make new friends from all over the world and it's even opened up exciting opportunities (more on this to come).

I'm thankful for the families that we have, both here and in Indiana. Roger's kids--Delaney's siblings--although far away in location never stray far from our thoughts. We wish every single day that we were able to be all together in the same place.

Comments

[MamaSutra]

Great post! I especially like the gym part: go you! You're pretty motivated to hit the gym on Thanksgiving! Glad you and your family had a wonderful day.

[Jenny]

A year after the gym and you're still going?!

That's seriously impressive.

[Heather]

I used to practice yoga regularly and was thinking earlier today that I really, really need to get back to it, if only for the head space I think it gives me. Hope you had a lovely dinner!

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