Happy Thanksgiving! It’s 12:08a.m. and it’s officially Thanksgiving Day.  And the first thing I wanted to do was blog about what I am thankful for this year. I think it’s ESPECIALLY important right now considering how the past 2 months has gone around here with the plethora of illness that continues to plague our family. You would think we were rolling in filth the way we fall.

We nearly made it an entire 7 days before tragedy struck again. On Saturday afternoon we were preparing for our family portraits. Jana was heading over with her family so we could do a lil’ session swapping. All was well and i was in the happiest place in the world because i finally got a new flat iron and we were bonding when people started shouting “CALL 911!”

Long story short Larissa fell and dislocated her knee. OUCH! so we had the fire department, the sheriff (apprently he was out and about and thought he’d pop in too) and the EMS here. Three emergency vehicles and a gaggle of kids milling around the front yard. It took them nearly 45 minutes to stabalize her enough to transport her.  So she was carried out, her new Abercrombie jeans cut to smitherines and 5ml of morphine coursing through her veins.  (the morphine cancelled out the death of the jeans).  The ER doc. set her knee back and we were home w/in an hour. She is doing well but she will have to have surgery once she returns to Switzerland next summer. Let’s all pray that she doesn’t have to suffer that tragedy again….and at least if she does let’s hope she’s wearing a cheap track suit.

So fastforward to today and Parker has bronchitis. Not much to say about that. He sounds awful but he is his happy, menacing little self. He is a budding artist and likes to show off his mad coloring skillz on the walls. …..alot.

So that’s the update and now here’s my little list of things that i am eternally grateful for…..

friends & family (DUH! that’s a given)

k-now onto the rest.

1. a new flat iron
2. that mark brought out my christmas decorations from the attic without me asking…ever. not once.
3. brooklyn’s beautiful hair. it’s taken forever to grow it out. she is loving her hair and i love watching her love herself.
4. parker’s new vocabulary: mama, dada, ball, woof woof, mooooo, orange, nana, bye, go, i sit, wa wa.
5. health insurance-i can not phathom our medical bills w/out it.
6. the premiere of Lost (january 21) woot!
7. my new “family” in switzerland and their generous hearts.
8. the beginning of advent.
9. hudson’s endless questions….even if they are slightly overwhelming at times…at least he’s still talking to me.
10. brooklyn asking me if she could use my camera today and then walking around the house snapping photos of EVERYTHING including every Christmas book we brought downstairs for the coffee table.
11. Michelle’s pumpkin trifle….um, and Michelle too! (she’s already included in “friends” listed above!…geesh!)
12. my mom’s new job and that she is able to have real holidays off like Thanksgiving and she is spending it with my brother & sister.
14. that my sister in law isn’t a giant freak who thinks she can have natural child birth. she will be administering her own epidural sometime in the next 4 weeks ….which is still 4 weeks prior to her due date.
15. stores that release their black friday ads early so i can plan my strategy. woot!
16. pumpkin spice lattes
17. that we have finally stopped using our AC all day on a daily basis….now it’s just an occassional artic blast to cool us off mid day.
18. my new car….i know that’s so ridiculous but seriously, you have no idea.
19. zyrtec. parker slept in his own bed THE ENTIRE NIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER!!!!!!!!!! course, he hasn’t done it again since and i don’t actually KNOW if zyrtec is the reason he did it the first time but why chance it and leave it off this amazing list?
20. that larissa can still use her abercrombie jeans as a sovenier.

i could ramble but really…is that like me?

gobble! gobble!