A quick thread for when you’re killing time before eating or before napping on this Thanksgiving Day. I got up at 7 a.m. to make the dressing with my mom, the recipe a little card in my grandmother’s handwriting, and so I’m thankful for that. That we are here together, today, near the end of this very long year, doing a family tradition. Also that the three dogs are now getting along with Mom’s dog Goldy more or less (with Tractor kitty, a work in progress, but Twitter and Tater, the other cats, are zen). So, tell me something you’re thankful for today — let’s have a thread of small or large joys.
I always have so much to be thankful for, but this Thanksgiving is catching me after a super rough time and in the middle of a fibromyalgia flare up, so enumerating them is more challenging than it normally is. Today, I'm grateful for the Amazon prime original series from Studio Ghibli, Ronja the Robber's Daughter. My kid is really enjoying it and it's nice to snuggle up and watch together.
Thankful that though this year has been a rough one that I am doing a better job supporting myself, and valuing resilience and recovery more than in the past.
What a gift to have your grandmother’s recipe! The other day at my mom’s house, I was flipping through her mother’s Settlement Cookbook, and discovered my grandma’s blintz recipe taped in the back. She made such good blintzes, which we’d keep in the freezer for the next blintz emergency. I’m excited to try my hand at them sometime soon.
As I told my husband last night, we are better now than we were six months ago and that is something to be very grateful for. Navigating a small business thru all the post-Covid financial fallout has been intense this year and our son was also ill since late 2022. But yesterday, our hairdresser confirmed that it's not all wishful thinking....his hair really is growing back! (Thyroid disease flare-up that began in 2022.) He found a great new doctor who listens to him, plus our "bonus" child (his best friend who has been living with us for 4 years) is navigating college well, and we have a plan for the next step in our business. Nothing's perfect, but it's better.....I'm so grateful that everything and everyone is better.
I am delighted to know that down there in KY, you are cooking and eating with your mom - happiest of holidays, dear Gwenda.
(Also - to Kimberly - yea for all things Studio Ghibli!)
For twenty years of Friendsgiving with smart and kind people.
I always have so much to be thankful for, but this Thanksgiving is catching me after a super rough time and in the middle of a fibromyalgia flare up, so enumerating them is more challenging than it normally is. Today, I'm grateful for the Amazon prime original series from Studio Ghibli, Ronja the Robber's Daughter. My kid is really enjoying it and it's nice to snuggle up and watch together.
Thankful that though this year has been a rough one that I am doing a better job supporting myself, and valuing resilience and recovery more than in the past.
What a gift to have your grandmother’s recipe! The other day at my mom’s house, I was flipping through her mother’s Settlement Cookbook, and discovered my grandma’s blintz recipe taped in the back. She made such good blintzes, which we’d keep in the freezer for the next blintz emergency. I’m excited to try my hand at them sometime soon.
As I told my husband last night, we are better now than we were six months ago and that is something to be very grateful for. Navigating a small business thru all the post-Covid financial fallout has been intense this year and our son was also ill since late 2022. But yesterday, our hairdresser confirmed that it's not all wishful thinking....his hair really is growing back! (Thyroid disease flare-up that began in 2022.) He found a great new doctor who listens to him, plus our "bonus" child (his best friend who has been living with us for 4 years) is navigating college well, and we have a plan for the next step in our business. Nothing's perfect, but it's better.....I'm so grateful that everything and everyone is better.
I am delighted to know that down there in KY, you are cooking and eating with your mom - happiest of holidays, dear Gwenda.
(Also - to Kimberly - yea for all things Studio Ghibli!)