Thanksgiving was .... interesting. It is well known to be one of my most favorite holidays of the year, if not the most. It is a grand opportunity to soak up the cleansing effect that pure gratitude brings. Negativity is a very selfish thing and one of my pet peeves...Thanksgiving is a selfless Holiday... not centered around Easter bunny's, valentines or ghosts. It is reflective, introspective and just fantastic... I love it completely. We thoroughly enjoyed a month long exercise as a family of expressing and seeking out all the many wonderful things we are grateful for. There is an abundance and it feels like pure gold to diligently submerse your thoughts in deep gratitude.
Then came the actual Thanksgiving day weekend. It started off with a BANG. An entire houseful of happy Hursts = 8 Adults, 9 kids (we were minus our 3 boys this year) and an extra guest dog. We successfully indulged in the feast of Thanksgiving (phew). Before our feast, my sweetheart paid a short little tribute to the things he was grateful for, it was so tender and completely adorable. I wanted to eat him up right there. We were all enjoying one anothers company until.... the day after Thanksgiving and everyone got sick. Very sick. It started with my nieces throwing up and by morning it was virtually the entire house afflicted with body aches, fever and mild upset tummy's/no appetite. That certainly put a damper on the weekend. Everyone sadly but thankfully left early because of the illnesses. I suppose that is the predominate rule of thumb, when the host is down, the house shuts down. I fevered and ached for about 3 days. It was awful and being pregnant the fabulous "Vitamin I" aka= Ibprophen was off limits :( It took me a few days to not only to physically but emotionally recover from the weekend. I am sure the illnesses were just a fluke thing but I do have to say I think it will be a while before we have the whole gang down again.
With all that said...I choose to remember the pictures below and be so very grateful we were able to experience that. Being together with family is a great thing. It is so sweet to see Ben's parents when all their kids are together, they really love their kids and they love being together.
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| Thanksgiving table setting |
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| Believe it or not... my 1st real official pie! and it worked. |
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| The fantastic Thanksgiving Tree |
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| Mother-in-law and Sister-in-law... aren't they pretty! |
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| Ben and his sweet Father |
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| Ben, Dad and Clay |
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| Love Bugs! |
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| A few of the sweet cousins. |
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