I have to admit Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.  It makes me jump with joy.  I’ve always loved getting together with people I love and eating great food.  My favorite combination.  Its been a tradition as long as I can remember that my family all gathers for every holiday.  This year I’m hosting which means I need to be prepared to feed about 40 people.  While this may sound scary to some of you, I am in my element.  Well the cooking part is but I dread cleaning my house.  I want everything to be perfect but that’s faaaaar from reality.  3 little kids and a busy life pretty much guarantees house cleaning duties come last.  So my biggest chore is to make the house presentable and know that my loved ones won’t judge (or they can eat their turkey in the street!).  Its Thanksgiving Eve and I have brined and rubbed the bird, cooked a sweet potato pie with snicker doodle crust, made pretzel jello, sweet potato casserole, chopped tons of celery and onions for the stuffing, roasted 6 large heads of garlic, did about 10 loads of laundry, cleaned under the kids beds…ok, enough, I’m exhausted and bored telling you all about it.  I still have to get the brisket ready so that it can be turned on at 3 a.m.  Is my house clean?  Not even close.  See, still obsession about the house  As exhausted as I am I don’t think sleep will come easy because yes, I am just that excited.

I have so much to be thankful for.  Most importantly I have so many people that I love and that love me in return.  I am thankful everyday of my life for the people who have touched my life, some have been brief others I can’t shake.

What’s a post without a picture or several?  Recently I went on a tour with my daughters Brownie Troop at The Parade Company.  WOW!!  I highly recommend going if you get the chance.  We got to see a ton of floats and paper mache heads.  Because we toured right before Detroit’s Thanksgiving Parade, we also got to see people building floats that will be in the parade.  I really can’t express how cool this place is.  On the day we were there they were having Balloon School.  People were out in the parking lot with giant balloons learning how to walk them in the parade and it looked like so much fun.  There are a lot of opportunities for volunteering at The Parade Company and its something I’m going to do.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving, filled with loved ones and good food!