The REAL Thankful Thursday!

This is where I’d love to share a family pic but I need to get Kid Approval and since I may not, I will share pix that I know are safe for posting:

We had a really lovely family dinner at Estia – all 4 kids (mine + niece M) were well behaved and it was just a great night.

I ended up bailing on Moana 2 in favor of writing 2000 words, but the kids had fun! And this morning Josh and I made it out in the (light) rain to the local turkey trot!! Laura ended up staying in which was 100% understandable (cold rain is . . . wet and cold) but since we were only ~0.7 mi from the start I convinced Josh to just try heading out with me and we’d turn around if it was THAT bad.

Then he ended up running a super fast race (19:44, 3rd in his age group despite being less than two weeks away from the NEXT 10 year age group!) and admitted it was good that we went!!

I kind of struggled to find my groove in the rain, plus I wore the above jacket which I ended up taking off and tying around my waist — totally annoying, I do not recommend this approach! But oh well. I ran a 7:34/mi average which seemed a bit meh, and hoping the marathon predictors are not accurate for this one!

(I do think I am “better” at longer distances. But who knows!)

AND NOW we are all just hanging out, turkey is in the oven (with zero thanks to me), and the kids are loving hanging out with their cousin who happens to be a VERY cute and good-natured almost-5 year old.

Sarah (Harry Times) wrote: “Here’s to the happy golden days and knowing when we’re living them.”

Hard agree. Definitely living them now. Thankful for anyone reading this right now, family time, cozy sweaters, holiday playlists, pumpkin pie (and rum cake! new tradition?), and so much more. Happy Thanksgiving!!