WHEN: Winter 2010-2011
WHERE: a frosted winter wonderland near you!
As I promised, I would not let myself (at least my blog) embrace winter until at least Thanksgiving this year. Well, it's Thanksgiving and it's hard not to embrace winter and the Christmas season at this point. From Christmas tree lots, to Christmas music stations, to snowstorms, to holiday traditions, foods, and decorations...winter is all around!
Stace and I woke up at 9 this morning, just in time for the 84th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC. Stacie laid in bed watching the parade for two hours while I've been designing my Seasons page for winter. We've been tag-teaming the kitchen prep all afternoon and the house is filled with Thanksgiving aromas. I've helped with each dish we're making today and it's made me appreciate all the work involved (thank you mom and mother-in-law, for your selfless and delicious cooking). We're sticking to our favorites: turkey (11lbs.), mashed potatoes (5lbs.), stuffing, and rolls. With only two of us eating, we don't need a lot of food and we get to choose exactly what we make (and don't make). Even still, with just two people and a couple dishes, it's been a little stressful at times (and plenty hot). With the heat outside and the heat in the kitchen, we've seriously been considering turning on the A/C! Nobody's cut or burned themselves (yet) so we're still healthy :)
We'll probably watch some football while we digest, set up Christmas decorations after we eat, and top it all off with some pumpkin pie and Disney's A Christmas Carol tonight - my new favorite Christmas movie since we saw it in (3D) theaters last November. Tomorrow we plan on going out to hopefully find a sale or two as well as pick up our Christmas tree. With only a few weeks before we head home for Christmas, we have a limited amount of time to enjoy our tree and decorations at our house.
Yet somehow with all these festivities and scenes of Christmas, we're still struggling to embrace the weather here. It's been in the upper 70's this week and we're at 80° already today and it's even humid outside. It was already 73° at ten this morning. I'm not going to complain about t-shirt weather during the winter but I find it hard to completely enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas movies in tank tops and flip flops.
I am thankful for our wonderful families and that we get to see them at Christmas. I know we are blessed for that and that many families are broken and/or cannot spend the holidays together. Although Stace and I are alone this Thanksgiving, we have a roof over our heads, food on our plates, good health, each other, loving families, and most importantly, eternal salvation through Christ Jesus. Our needs, earthly and eternal, are well taken care of and we are selfish to think we are without "x". We have so much to be thankful for everyday.
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