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I know, I know...my last post was on December 1. And today is what, the 19th? Yikes. Let me claim vacation, and also fatigue as the reasons for not being more diligent about posting. And to make it up to you, I'll...well, I'll let you buy me a coffee, how about that for a deal?

Before I move on, I should probably just note that this is my 500th blog post on this particular blog. I don't even know how many posts I had on my old one, but it was a lot. Woo!


While on vacation, we got our Christmas pictures taken (rather, my parents followed us with a camera while we argued over what a "good" Christmas picture should be...and somehow ended up in aprons?):

We also got together with a large chunk of Nolan's family in Oregon, and somehow managed to get a decent picture of everyone out of it!


Upon returning, my meals switched back to this to make up for the holiday goodies I'd been putting away. Definitely not like eating cardboard, and I was SO full afterward! Yum!

Speaking of which, Nolan and I went to a new Indian place for date night last night, and since the buffet was only $1 pricier than most dishes, we opted for the buffet. I realized what a poor decision this was as I lay on the floor last night, moaning about my stuffed belly.

Also, when we returned we found a card in our mailbox...from our mailman! How sweet is this?! He even changed our street from "Santa Clara" to "Santa Claus", haha:

Happy Holidays!

Thankful Thursday

What do they say? Oh right:

'Tis the season!

I found some cheery candles for my awesome candelabra:
Some festive throw-pillows:
I used the same festive candle for the bathroom, because every room has to be in the holiday mood:
And just something to set the mood from the hallway:

1. I'm thankful for my vacation coming up in just a few short days! A whole week! Phew, we need it!

2. I'm thankful that we've had lots of good food as of late; leftovers from Thanksgiving. There's been no scrounging for tasty snacks this week!

3. I'm thankful we have friends who will watch Milo for us next week so we don't have to worry about him. It's such a relief to have a good "babysitter".

4. I'm thankful the holidays are here because no other time of year elicits such "goodness" from people. I like seeing people be a little more patient, a little more kind, a little more loving.

5. I'm thankful for honest, good conversations. I've had a lot of those in the past few weeks, and it's really been priceless.

What are you thankful for?

Orphan Thanksgiving

Just because it's still on my mind, I thought I'd recap our Orphan Thanksgiving for you...because it was a blast! Definitely not something to be sad about :)

Just in case you doubted the size of my turkey, use the beer bottles for scale...or my gigantic red kitchenaid mixer. Or the sink. It was ginormous. And amazingly tasty! And wouldn't have been the same without Nolan's turkey carving skillz, as you can see from his first prime slice.
And our orphan thanksgiving was a hit! So much fun to host all these lovely people (there were 17 total, so Nolan (taking the picture) and a late arrival aren't in this photo). I'm the chunk of hair in the lower left corner. We're still trying to finish the delicious leftovers in our fridge. Blah.

To burn it all off, I hiked up Windy Hill on Saturday morning with some girlfriends, and immediately put it on my list of things I like. It was a GOOD hike, and we weren't even going that fast! Plus you're on a ridge in the Santa Cruz mountains overlooking the valley - what's not to like about that?

Anyone up for a good hike?

Thanks Giving

I decided to bridge the gap between my thanksgivings by writing this post today instead of yesterday. Nolan and almost all of his colleagues were working yesterday, so we're throwing a potluck-style thanksgiving feast tonight. I was told yesterday that everyone's been calling it the "Orphan Thanksgiving" since we're all not able to celebrate with our families this year. Secretly I like little nicknames like this, like how I discovered people call our entryway the "Caldwell Shoe Mountain" because we force people to take off their shoes in our narrow little hall and you have to dig through the mountain of shoes when you leave to find your pair. Anyway: Orphan Thanksgiving...I'm going with it. And who knows, maybe it will be an annual thing for these three years at least. So I fortunately made everything in advance, and today only have to worry about my 21 pound turkey and stuffing. Which will sit in the oven for 5 hours as I relax!

Yesterday morning in between baking things, I was watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade per tradition. But I'm pretty sure someone else saw more footage of it than I did. I was telling my in-laws on the phone that Milo had been watching the parade all morning, and my mother-in-law said, "You personify that cat!". Which I think is probably very true in most cases. But...well, I took these pictures every 30 minutes. You tell me:

I feel compelled to tell you that his eyes were wide open in each of these pictures (he wasn't napping), and he wasn't paying ANY attention to me when I'd offer him a treat. If you know Milo, you know he must have been pretty fixated to not want food.

This morning, I'm sitting wrapped in a blanket after my workout and coffee, waiting until my hair appointment at 10, and then I'm going to come back and stick the turkey in the oven, and relax for the rest of the day. Tell me that doesn't just sound blissful! Granted, I'm pretty lucky to have today off and be able to just enjoy my favourite time of the season, and celebrate with friends tonight over good food. I'm lucky in a lot of things. Let me elaborate:

1. I'm so thankful for Nolan. Residency is tough, and I miss him a lot, but we're making it work in our own way. I am so grateful for the time we do get together, and the memories we're making. He is the best part of me, and I am immensely blessed to call him my husband.

2. I'm thankful for my family. Both sides, all of it. No matter what happens, we're all still family, and we love each other. I'm so lucky that our families not only love us and support us, but they get along with each other. So we just have a giant big family, as it feels at times!

3. I'm thankful for my job. Don't I say this every week? Well, it's true. My job is great.

4. I'm thankful for our home. It's a relaxing, cozy little piece of us. It's a place where we feel safe and at ease. I could stay in here all day. Sometimes I do! And the surrounding area? Beautiful!

5. I'm thankful for our friends. All of them, in all areas. Some are far away and some I see several times a week. But they are all wonderful and mean a lot to me. I'm so thankful for such a great support system.

6. I'm thankful for so many things God has blessed us with, and sometimes I feel a little overwhelmed with how much I've been given. Most of all, I am daily grateful for His presence in my life, and His hand on my shoulder. Sometimes I don't stick as close to His side as I should or as I want to, but He is always there, waiting. I hope I never take that for granted.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

stuff of nightmares

I've been waffling for awhile now about how big of a turkey I need for our thanksgiving feast. Since we have a tentative headcount only, it's a little hard to plan. Nolan started telling me we might need 2, and I just pointed at our oven, because the obvious response is, "Oh. So just one then." Our oven is a ridiculous tiny old thing that won't even cook a full-size pizza, much less fit my large cookie sheets, much less allow for 2 turkeys (not that I could cook them simultaneously anyway!). So instead, we have a big 21-pounder that's just going to have to fit, because we will NOT have thanksgiving without turkey for all!

Also: today we got our thermostat fixed. Hallelujah.

Who else is excited about a short week? Because I'm SUPER excited about it. Holiday weeks are generally lots of food, festivities, and out-of-office messages...which means that work comes to a grinding halt for the most part. It's a good thing for people like me, who are still trying to catch up on normal work items after a big deadline has passed. I love these kinds of weeks. I also have a lot to look forward to, like sleeping in (kind of) for 4 days in a row, getting my hair done, hosting a fabulous Thanksgiving dinner, and then having only 1 more week of work before our week-long vacation! After that I think I have just 1 more full week of work before Christmas is here (for me) and I have endless days off of fun and festivus. Who else is excited that this time of year is here at last!?!

Quote of the day:
Last week, I was showing Nolan I was happy he was home by kissing his neck, when he peeled me off and told me "no". To my horror, the reason was because he had been splattered with someone's blood all over his neck and chest and hadn't showered yet. This is the stuff of my germaphobic nightmares, folks.

"Me: Dare I ask if you are clean or if there's something on you I should be aware of? Blood? Fecal material?
Nolan: Yeah, the question isn't what is on me as much as who is on me...
Me: *gag*"

Thankful Thursday

Another late-night Thursday post! I guess I'll keep this one brief.

1. I'm thankful for warm food. Our thermostat hasn't been fixed yet, so our house gets pretty chilly. Luckily, I've been cooking more, which means the oven is on, which means the living room heats up a bit. And warm food always makes me feel warm inside :)
2. I'm thankful for the time with my in-laws last weekend! It was such fun to catch up and see the Ducks STOMP on Stanford.
3. I'm thankful that our bible study is going to continue meeting up on Tuesdays informally until the Spring study begins. It's so refreshing to have time with these girls, and build good friendships.
4. I'm thankful for my job and work situation. I have such supportive coworkers, and I like what I do! Such a rare thing nowadays!
5. I'm thankful Thanksgiving is almost here, because it means a couple extra days off, and God knows I need it. After this phase of my killer project? Whew. A couple days' rest sounds like heaven.
6. I'm thankful for peace of mind. Conflicts and issues may arise, but prayer, thoughtfulness, and patience really help when it comes to taking a deep breath and trying to look at things objectively. This is something God has been teaching me lately.

What are you thankful for?

Cornbread without the bread part

Latest obsession? Polenta. I started experimenting with it awhile ago, making little rounds in the oven and covering them with oil and herbs and sundried tomatoes. Then I moved on to fancy mascarpone-covered rounds with berries, honey and shaved chocolate. Lately, it's been plain old cooked polenta. Which isn't so plain, as it turns out:All I do is boil some polenta with milk, honey, butter, a shake of salt, and cream it all together. Once it's piping hot and thick, I toss on some blueberries and sliced almonds, and drizzle more honey over it all. Pure deliciousness!

On that note, if you're like me and you stocked up on Trader Joe's cornbread mix, let me also tell you that it isn't worth it. Betty Crocker (or homemade!) is much better and doesn't taste vaguely lemony. Though the real corn chunks in it are definitely charming.

Thankful Thursday

Well, it's almost midnight, and because of the sudden urge to finish this book (I'm not giving in), I've been glued to this couch reading for hours. My right buttock is officially numb. If you're curious, I've been reading "The Passage" by Justin Cronin. It was recommended to me by an author that I met a few weeks ago, and I've been sucked in ever since! It is absolutely fantastic. Apparently it's the first of a 3-part series, but the second two haven't yet been published. If you liked "Pillars of the Earth", it's written in a very similar style, although about an entirely different theme and time period. That's all I'll say! I don't know what it is, but I've been reading nothing but really EXCELLENT books for months now. No duds whatsoever!

Since Thursday is almost over, I'd better get to it, right?

1. I'm thankful for the gift of time. Time with Nolan, time to read this book, time to relax, and time to prepare for the weekend. Often I don't have enough time, so getting little bits of it today have been super nice.

2. I'm thankful for my commute. Even though it's long, I officially can say that it could be a ton worse. I tried a different route this week: biking in the freezing cold to Caltrain Redwood City, waiting 30-45 (!) minutes for Caltrain to arrive, transferring at Millbrae to BART, and then doing the same thing to get home. I discovered (to my delight and relief), that it saves $0 money, costs more time, and it much more hassle. So I don't feel guilty at all now about the luxury of driving to Millbrae. Plus it buys me more time at home with Nolan. Win.

3. I'm thankful for these little pets. Even though one of them isn't mine. It just kind of makes me smile when I hear them galloping around the house, chasing each other with this kind of reckless joy. Like, it reminds me that life is simple.

4. I'm thankful for patience. I've learned to have patience with certain situations, whether at work or home, and I've become keenly aware of the consequences of not "waiting" for things. It makes me appreciate when I catch myself just taking a deep breath and being willing to be patient. Life is so much more peaceful when I allow myself to be like this. Sorry if this is vague.

5. I'm thankful for good deals! I just spent $6 for $50 of gift certificates to our favourite Thai restaurant. Tell me that isn't something to be thankful for, with the usual upcoming holiday expenses!

What are you thankful for?

Train to nowhere

Favourite thing of the week? Starbucks' cheery new red cups, complete with cheeky nutcracker!

Maybe I'm a week or two late on this, but it's a good thing that it's my first Starbucks in awhile...right?

Recently, I was browsing Milo's facebook page (what can I say, he's a social media rockstar), and found this old post on there that cracked me up. Especially since I know EXACTLY what Nolan was talking about:

Speaking of which, have I mentioned that Milo has a friend over this week? We've been cat-sitting a pretty, if not obese, kitty named Harley. See:

She's made herself totally at home, which has been an adjustment for an only child like Milo. There was a lot of hissing and walking in WIDE circles around one-another for a couple days, but now they've become BFFs, and spend most of their days hurtling around the house chasing each other, napping together, sharing food (and litter boxes - gross!) even though they each have their own, and doing this cute thing where they touch noses and just stare at each other before flying around the room again. They're usually going so fast, that this is the best picture I've gotten of them together so far:
I can already tell Milo will be depressed when she goes home.

And as promised awhile ago, there happened to actually be a picture posted of our real Halloween costumes:

We're LEGOs. So it was an easy idea. Needless to say, these boxes stayed on about 2 minutes before we discovered we couldn't really move in them. So we spent the rest of the night simply as "red" and "yellow" since our outfits underneath were purely those colours. Thanks, Nolan, for bringing me bright yellow tights from China.

As it turns out, there were a lot of really random pictures from our party, but not a lot of the decor, except this crappy one from my phone (I had the flash off...oops), in which you can see some random decorations we had. Oh well.

Thankful Thursday

Last night I woke up at 3 to put Milo out as usual, and the tip of his paw touched the wardrobe, which naturally he thought was an intruder instead of the same old wardrobe that's always there. So he flipped out and dug his claws deep, deep into my ribcage, where I had to actually pull them out one-by-one before crawling back into bed with bloody streaks across my abdomen. Freaking Milo. When I woke up, I also couldn't move my neck, because I apparently slept directly on it while trying to avoid sleeping on my painful scratches. This combined with my still very sore legs from gym class on Tuesday has produced the delightful Igor effect, in which I limp around the office with straight legs and not able to turn my head or touch my sides. Attractive.

All complaining aside, though:

1. I'm thankful it's almost the weekend, not only for the days off, but because Nolan has both days off and I finally get to see him! The only physical communication I've had from him this week was more of a request than a love letter:

And although I vastly appreciate text, email, random notes, etc. to let us communicate more when we can't see each other, I'd rather be able to talk face to face! Also hug. And kiss. I really just miss him. Which leads me to say that this weekend is also fantastic because it's the end of this rotation where he works nights. Yippee! That's something to be thankful for.
2. I'm thankful for November being here, and all that entails! I've already gotten to the bottom of my canister of hot cocoa, and I'm roasting another batch of hazelnuts tonight. I've brought out the legwarmers again (hello, old friends!), and I'm wearing gloves in the morning so I don't freeze on my commute. I love all these things! And Starbucks' red cups! And baking and chocolate and OMG SO MANY GOOD THINGS DURING THE HOLIDAYS. I also love that I can officially say it's THE HOLIDAYS.
3. I'm thankful for my packed schedule. Even though it's been a little stressful, I've been more and more aware of my extrovert needs, and have managed to stay really busy, which helps when I'm missing my husband. Plus, who wouldn't want an excuse to hang out with so many fabulous women? It's really fun getting to know each other better as time goes by. So thankful for them.
4. I'm thankful for music. Nothing inspires or encourages me as much as good music. Here's my most recent fave:

5. I'm thankful for good books. Reading another killer novel, thanks to a recommendation from an author I met recently. I'll post the title once I get a little farther into it. A good book goes a long way towards making my commute fun!

What are you thankful for?

It's alive!

This is how my commute looks when I am waiting for the next BART train. I'm loving having a camera that can make my boring pictures a little more artsy looking. Even though they're not.


I got this picture in an email from my dad, and at first I was like, "....the?" but then I read the tiny caption underneath:
""Please check your stock before you buy dear". The only thing mom has a greater supply of is Coke."

Because, you know, the world could end and we could possibly run out of Triscuits.

And in case you were wondering how long cheap LED tealights can last while lit, so far the answer is 48 hours. I took this picture last night, and they were still burning bright this morning. I've had them going since Monday. Aaand those are our pumpkins, too. In case you were wondering. The star one is Milo's, the angry one is Nolan's, and the uncarved, weird green one behind them is mine.

Quote of the day:

"I'm just waiting here to have my colonoscopy...yuk..after all the study, what could possess a Doctor to be a butt Doctor. I would not choose to specialize in any of the orifices. Just random thoughts." - Pops

Oktoberfestivus

I guess I'd better back up a ways, since it's been a little while since my last post, and I've been shamefully busy since then. We've done a lot of things, like tailgating and cheering on stanford at a football game:


We were really just 2 more Stanford fans in a sea of crimson at the homecoming game...

AND we had excellent seats, even though we got separated from our friends.

Some of whom were seated in the Washington section. I got the below picture with a text that said "I am sitting literally this close to the Washington band". Hahaha!

And then I went to a pumpkin carving birthday party, in which we made some FANTASTIC pumpkins and sipped cider while we carved.

And I explored our neighbourhood some more, and discovered that almost every house gets radically into Halloween. Here's one example, and this is minus the giant inflatable spider and cat that were lurking on the sides and moving around.

Then I went to the first Halloween party solo....which inspired my black widow costume ;)

And right here, you can insert a whole bunch of pictures that I haven't uploaded yet from last night's party at our house, which was awesome and also TONS OF WORK. I'll post those later, after I sort through the hundreds of jello shots in my fridge and tear down streamers and lights and return tables. For now, this is what I look like RIGHT this second, because this is about as festive as I'm allowed to get at my job:

To make up for it, I brought some leftovers from our party the night before, and am SO happy to say that they're almost all gone. Phew. Like I needed more sugar.

More pictures to come eventually, and I'm long overdue for a thankful post!

Thankful Thursday

I have this nasty looking front lawn. Mostly because Muffin digs holes in it, buries his acorns, and then digs them up later. It's all dry and pot-holed. So I thought I'd buy a little grass seed to fill in the gaps, and make it a little softer and prettier. Turns out my mom's advice of planting the seed around the time of the first rain was correct. The stuff took off and now my lawn has nature's version of a wonky 5 o'clock shadow.

Yes, that's a tiny pumpkin stake in my lawn. Nolan said he'd pay me a dollar each to take them out and throw them away, but they only cost me $1 each, so I'd rather eat the 3 dollars and have pumpkin stakes.

Time for some thankfulness, eh?

1. I'm thankful for a relaxed schedule this week. I've had very few plans, and it's been wonderful to catch up on things like CostCo runs and cleaning.

2. I'm thankful for technology. It allows me to communicate with my husband when neither of us are home to talk in person, and it allows me to spend an hour catching up with my little brother in Israel.

3. I'm thankful for the little things. Like the delicious roasted hazelnuts on my salad and a nice warm bed to curl up in when I'm sick and my weird green grass that's thriving and reminding me that even the driest seeds can sprout when they're watered enough,

4. I'm thankful for fun memories. Nolan and I were looking at some photobooth pictures we took a few months ago (I need to eventually scan them in and post them on here), and the sheer joy and fun you can see in those pictures. I laugh every single time I see them.

5. I'm thankful for my wonderful family, and how it never ceases to amaze me. I had a conversation this week with a relative that just delighted me, because it was so surprising.

On that note, enjoy your weekends! Take your vitamin C so you don't end up like me :(

A veritable storm of media

After all of our discussions around apple products lately, apparently Nolan felt it necessary to send me this card while I was at work yesterday:

Touching.

On Saturday I had a couple short hours with Nolan once he woke up, and then after he left, I met up with the Ladds to pick out our pumpkins at a local patch. They had green ones:

And orange ones...and now between the ones I bought here and the 2 I picked up (with fake corn) at Lucky's, I have 5 pumpkins laying around. Why? No idea. It may have been the pumpkin spice lattes we had afterwards that just put me in a prolonged state of autumnal awareness.

On Sunday, we drove into the city to see our dear friends Brandon and Tiffany exchange vows. It was beautiful and perfect.

I even took a short video of it, featuring our fabulous friend Mat Park singing and playing during the processional:

Ladies, he's single.

Also there was almost our entire former small group, including Tom and Susan and their baby. Which meant dinner was a little bit of eating and a lot of pass-the-baby. He just looks super bored with Nolan pinching his little rolls. He's like, "sigh. okay, who's next. can we go home yet? sigh."

Insert same thought here. More sighing. But how cute does Ms. B look with a baby!

It's true what they say, about the only times in life when you really get to see all of your friends is at weddings and funerals. So glad this one was the former.

Later that night, at the Emergency Medicine dinner (this picture was right after the picture from Monday's post). Note the change of clothes necessary.

Our favourite Missouri couple!

Obligatory picture of Milo. Okay actually, I put it in here because it was the first real picture I took on my new phone, and it just happened to be while he was searching out the remnants of his old food bag (sadly for him, it was empty).

Hopefully tomorrow I'll wake up and:

a.) not be sick anymore

b.) there will be coffee brewed

c.) be rich and famous. or just rich. or just find out it's snowed in San Francisco and I have the day off.

Snapshot

This photo from yesterday sums up a lot of our life right now:

I feel like we spend a lot of our time waiting for what's next around the bend. Waiting for the next step in our ever-changing lives. We spend a lot of time wearing clothes that aren't normal, because our jobs require us to and because we're rarely found lounging around at home. And I spend a lot of my time savouring every moment with Nolan, waiting for him to wake up and recover from his ridiculously demanding job.

But this picture also captures something else: that moment of calm that we have, where we can rest between engagements and just close our eyes for a second or 10 minutes before we have to get up and put on our game-faces. And do you see that faint glint in my eyes? It's happiness. And hope. Because even though we're still adjusting to this phase of life, we're happy. We have everything we could ask for. We have each other. And we have hope that sometime soon we'll get more time to spend together doing whatever we want to do. Most likely sleeping in and sipping coffee slowly, or riding our bikes to frozen yogurt and coming up with clever ways to win at Carcassonne. Travelling. Kayaking. The list goes on and on.

Until we get there,there are other things to be excited about. Like awesome fall food, good times with friends, the 15 minutes I get to spend with Nolan on Wednesday mornings (the only time we get between his 1 day "off" on the weekend), and the amazing fall weather we're having! It's made our home surprisingly warm for October. Milo's generally found on the floor, trying to cool off. He's used to huddling with me in the freezing San Francisco cold.

Not to mention the holidays, which are creeping steadily closer. I've already got half of our Christmas presents taken care of, and this morning I succumbed to my Christmas playlist, which I can actually load onto my phone now that I have more storage space! Sadly, while I was unashamedly listening to the Muppet Christmas Carol soundtrack, my coworkers were too, since I later discovered that my headphones weren't plugged in. Fail.

Thankful Thursday

Tomorrow I get my new phone (if they're in stock still by the time I get there), and so this is hopefully the last day of crappy iPhone pictures before I switch to decent iPhone pictures. w00t. It's definitely time: this morning my phone reset itself to January 2011...which means I lost all phone numbers, texts, pictures, emails, etc. that I had stored on there since January of this year. Bummer.

I love that Nolan and I have serious discussions about Milo while calling him "turduckin". Technically speaking, a turduckin is a chicken stuffed in a duck stuffed in a turkey and then cooked. Nolan's been pretty specific that in this case, it refers to a chicken stuffed in a duck wrapped up in a giant TURD. To be fair, Milo lives up to the name.

I've got my fall decorations out now, and am just waiting for the weekend to fully enjoy them, bake something delicious, and sit in a bubble bath with fall-ish candles burning and my windows wide open. I love my life. One of my favourite new pieces is actually a Halloween chandelier that my mom got for me (which I'm going to re-use for Christmas and maybe every other season because I like it!), but the pumpkin candles were so pretty in it I couldn't resist dubbing it a plain old Fall decoration and showing it off:

Today I had lunch at Samovar with Jacob, who treated himself to the English Tea Service because of the nice day and the veritable garden we were sitting in. It was very colonial:

I almost left a tip in change, but Jacob talked me out of it. Like that one time I did it at a white-tablecloth place with Nolan and he was HORRIFIED and ran out of the restaurant before I finished pulling out all of my quarters. Apparently it's very insulting to tip in coins, but how was I supposed to know that? Money is money, right? It made more sense when Nolan painted the picture of the waiter picking up the checkbook and a bazillion coins flying out everywhere, and having to go around on his hands and knees picking up coins from under other customers' feet while explaining it was his tip. Sigh. Consider me chastened.

In other news: on with the post.

1. I'm thankful for my boss, who supports and encourages me. I always know there is someone "in my corner" at work. No really. She and I have cubicles together in a tiny, cold corner of our floor.
2. I'm thankful for the bible study I'm doing. It's making me be a LOT more diligent about quiet time. As in, 100% because I was FAILING at it before.
3. I'm so thankful for every single moment I have with Nolan. Sometimes I wake up a little when he comes to bed, and whatever feelings of anxiety or stress I had when I went to bed a few hours earlier by myself just melt away. I fall back asleep contented knowing he's there. I so can't wait to have more than 15 minutes with him (that's how much I got this week so far). On that note, I'm also thankful that we prepared ourselves for residency being terrible. Because as bad as it is not having any time together, it's not as bad as we thought. Maybe we're just learning how to handle it.
4. I'm thankful for the great weather! It's been gorgeous, and my grass seed has started growing!
5.I'm thankful for rest. Even when I'm worn out and mentally fatigued, a little rest goes a looooong way. And it usually means sitting on the couch watching Arrested Development reruns and eating my bowl of frozen blueberries.
6. I'm thankful Arrested Development is coming back for another season and a MOVIE!!!! Best.news.ever. (click to enlarge)