Turkey Day already?

It is like hearing a broken record but really, where did this year go? 2008 just blurred by! Turkey Day is in 2 days! Amazing.

I have stepped out of my November funk. I think it was a combination of several things, not feeling well, post election blues, and just November. I think when I look back I have a hard time in November. Not sure why, maybe the cold arriving, the bleakness when you look out and everything is brown, the change in clocks so it is dark so early, but early November tends to historically give me a few weeks of the blues and blahs. This year with other circumstances it just seemed worse. But I have crawled out and feeling better.

I've had some talks with the Big Guy lately and feel a sense of peace about some things that were causing me a lot of stress. I need to do that more often. I need to continue to do that. He can be so easy to forget when life is just smoothly sailing along. Then WHACK you hit a pothole you didn't know was coming and you feel so helpless and alone. But you are never really alone, He's been there all along. What a gracious, loving God we have.

So Turkey Day is Thursday. We will be heading to a football game at Rs school in the morning and then to my MILs for dinner at 1pm. I was asked to bring Red Grapes. Scratching my head on that one but I'll do as I am told. I think she just didn't want to burden me with making something and that is cool. I can do grapes. I'm excited to see my niece on Thursday. I haven't seen her since summer. She is due in February with a baby girl. I'm so proud of the decisions she has made and for choosing life.

Our best friends are in the area and are coming to our house tomorrow. Since we won't see them at Christmas/New Years this year we are doing "our" Christmas tomorrow. So I must run to the store. I am making a Shitake Crusted Beef Tenderloin, Garlic Green Beans, some form of a starch, several appetizers and a Chocolate Strawberry Raspberry Shortcake for dessert. Good food, great friends, doesn't get better than that!