Thanksgiving in Nashville, year two

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• in family, friends, travel
• on November 28, 2008
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Well, I’m here with Dan’s family in Nashville for the second year in a row. The people are the same, but everyone is a year older. Dan’s nephews are still adorable and incredibly well behaved, and Dan’s sister-in-law still made a ridiculously delicious Thanksgiving feast. Today was actually a big day – it was the first time Dan’s nephew rode a bike without training wheels!! He actually did really, really well – I remember the process being a LOT more painful and physcially scarring than Jacob’s experience today. There were many many pictures taken, of course.

Anyway, I was reading last year’s Thanksgiving post about what I am thankful for, and realized that I was going to have to come up with something creative, as everything I mentioned last year definitely still applies.

Off the top of my head, I’m very thankful for my current living situation, job stability, and the ability to travel over the holidays (as well as the ability of my family to travel for Christmas).

Also, I’m thankful for travel, email, cards, letters, text messages, Facebook, phone calls, care packages, and everything else that helps me keep in touch (however poorly) with everyone I love from thousands of miles away.

I’m thankful for my friends being such an important fixture in each other’s lives while we go through all of these crazy life changes we’ve been experiencing.

I’m thankful for memories, and for digital cameras to catch all the memories our minds don’t catch.

I’m thankful for learning, reading, used book stores, Bookmooch, and libraries.

I’m thankful for everyone I miss, and everyone who misses me back.

I’m thankful for medical advances – the ones that are saving my grandmother, the ones that created life for some of my friends, and the ones that are continuing to keep some of my other friends, and their babies, healthy through pregnancies now.

Of course, I’m thankful for Dan who supports and loves me through crazy plans, life changes, moods that I didn’t even know I have, bad times, good times, and all the other stuff too.

I know we haven’t written about the pilgrimage we took earlier this week, and I don’t want to spoil the warm fuzziness of this current post, so here’s a teaser. I’ll write more when we get home tomorrow.