Early Thanksgiving

It's been a while since I've put anything down. A lot of craziness at work and home has kept us running in circles. Recently moving out of an Ops role to an Engineering role has really brought a lot of new challenges forward. Learning a new group can be a fun and exciting thing.

On a personal level, we had a roof leak down our kitchen chandelier (thank God for my brother-in-law who took the morning off work, came over, traced it down and helped fix it), I spent a week with a sore throat and funny voice and later the same day of fixing the leak our van broke down to the tune of $1300.00. The van started overheating and some type of seals were busted.

We decided to have Thanksgiving at my mom's a day early this year, so my sister and her family could be there too. Her husband has lymphoma cancer, but does his best not to be sickly. For all the struggles their family has gone through, he's always concerned with how you are doing and how work is going and the people around him. When we finish spending time with him, I always walk away wanting to be a better person and find more and better ways to use my time to serve my family and those around me. Dave is always looking to give and wanting to volunteer to help people out. He's been battling cancer for a little over 5 years now and even two summer's ago, he was out at my mom's digging out and helping repair her well when it went out.

Well, here in Detroit, Thanksgiving Eve brought a beautiful snowfall that really helped put you in the mood for the holiday season. (Speaking of putting you in the mood, I've really been annoying my friends by playing Christmas music in the car since WNIC started up with it a bit early this year. :) )

My mom just loves to pull all the stops out at Thanksgiving and makes enough food to feed an army. Funny, because with everyone piled into her house, it probably was the size of a small army. All together we had 16 people shoved and tucked around her dining room table. The noise is deafening, but the smiles, chatter and food were definitely worth it.