The World According to Angela

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  I hope your holiday weekend is great, spent with loved ones and eating lots of yummy food.  I hope for the fellow Black Friday crowd, your day is filled with deals galore.  If you travel, I hope you have a safe trip there and back again.

We are expecting a house full of company, and that is just how I like it.  Aaron's mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, brother, sister-in-law and neice are coming to visit us for Thanksgiving and leaving Saturday.  It should be a great time.  My friend Jeni and her husband are coming over for dinner, so we'll have 10 adults and 5 kids.  I love it!  Me and entertaining get along well.  I'm quite excited about our menu as well; all homemade stuff down to the cranberry sauce...yummy.  Thanks, Rachael Ray, for kicking my ability to cook up a notch.

In honor of Thanksgiving, take a moment to reflect on the things for which you are thankful.  It probably goes without saying that I am most thankful for my family.  All of my family, not just the ones who share my house.  I'm also thankful for my friends.  Many of my friends are like family to me, and I treasure them just as much.

I think back on past Thanksgivings.  Last year we had a great time in Tennessee visiting my family (and likewise, my mom, my sister Ashley and I had an absolute blast shopping!).  I felt so incredibly lucky to have a perfect family of 2 boys and 2 girls...and to have a baby again!!  6 years ago, I just did the IVF transfer of three not-so-great quality embryos, and was told to take it easy until the pregnancy test on December 2.  We went to my uncle's house for dinner and an old family friend told me to 'rest and take care of those babies.'  Hmm, she must have known something, as she was right.  7 years ago was very hard, as I wanted nothing more than to have a child, and couldn't forget that I should have been 3 months pregnant at that point.

But back to today.  It's time to finish cleaning and getting ready for our company.  I'm very thankful that I have this awesome kitchen with plenty of room to cook, and will have a full house tomorrow!  I'm thankful that this is my life!

Happy Turkey Day!