Nov 27 2008
What Do You Love Most About This Holiday?
10 Things I LOVE About Thanksgiving Holiday:
1. I don’t have to cook. Yes, that’s right. My mother and sister-in-law do all the cooking. Sure, I ask if I can help, but they’d rather handle it themselves. As a matter of fact, in the four years we’ve spent Thanksgiving together, I have NEVER cooked anything. They probably don’t trust my cooking…and I don’t blame them.
2. I have a house full of babysitters! You stay or work at home moms know what a pleasure it is to have more than your two eyes on your roving toddler.
3. Because I have in-house babysitters, I can actually go do something without my baby in tow. Don’t get me wrong–I LOVE being with her, but I can’t really take her to the movies yet. So, that means when my husband and I go to see “Twilight” and “Australia” this weekend, it will be the first time we’ve been to the movies in thirteen months. Yippie!
4. Different people, that we haven’t seen in a while, drop by to eat spend time with the family. And, when they drop by, my husband doesn’t have to drag me around town to visit them.
5. Since we live in an apartment, it feels good to spend time at my inlaws spacious house. My daughter has more room to run around and bump into stuff. Good times.
6. We have more opportunities to take dozens of family photos for my blog our photo albums.
7. Not only do I have help in keeping my daughter out of the toilet bowl water, but I have help in keeping her entertained. Her grandfather was overjoyed to read her the book that I have memorized after reading so much. And, since her grandmother has stocked up on toys, my daughter plays with a different set of toys than she’s used to playing with daily (you know her attention span is short).
8. No one ever gets bored laughing at my daughter as she walks, dances, shakes her head “no”, flashes her two pearly whites, and…well, I’m beginning to wonder what we did before she was here…
9. Ok. Enough about her…I also love all the fruits and veggies my inlaws keep around. My father-in-law is a vegan and my sister-in-law is a vegetarian. As long as they don’t replace the fried turkey–we’re good.
10. My husband’s off work and he gets to spend all day with us for a few days straight.
What do you love most about Thanksgiving…other than after it’s over, Christmas (or Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, DongZhi, Boxing Day, Omisoka) is on the way?
