Happy Thanksgiving!

I worked on Thanksgiving and will be going to work shortly. But I am thankful that when I do have to work holidays I was fortunate enough to have a team of colleagues who are more like my sisters and a brother. Sure, I missed the yearly crowded house at either my mom's or dad's side, the number of first cousins easily going upwards of 20, the freshman college boys playing basketball or football, the girls going shopping with the under 30 uncles (hard to think of them as uncles as some of the cousins are older than they are), the middle and high schoolers playing video games, the elementary and pre-school ones playing imaginative games that none of the adults can figure out, and the adults pouring over sale papers, arguing about politics, and cooking up a storm, or the mass exodus from the crowded house to the movie theater to see the perennial extended fantasy holiday flick, all before the massive meal where either we all commence to drinking tea, finding corners to nap in, or flock to the video store to rent something to occupy our time.