Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving has always meant a lot to Brad (that infamous holiday scrunched between two commercially driven holidays that bully Thanksgiving on both sides), but this year is it's extra special to me for a couple of reasons. 

First, since Thanksgiving last year I have a lot to be thankful for.  At this time last year I was underemployed (my HR consulting business) and had been in that status for about six months.  My family and me were drowning in anxiety and worry about what the future held.  Tension was high and I was leading the charge.  I appreciate more than ever this year that our status has changed.  I'm working for a great company in a great place and the family is adjusting to our new life in Denver.  Sure, the transition hasn't been a bed of roses but my perspective is so different based on a year of do-it-yourself employment.  And I'm better for it, and so is my family.  We are stronger, more thankful, and less entitlement driven than we were before ... thankful.

Second, we are hosting the family here in Denver for Thanksgiving.  What a blessing!  The attendee list is mostly family from my side but we'll also be joined by a few members of Holly's family living in the Denver/Colorado Springs area that I don't think we've ever spent Thanksgiving with.  They were so instrumental in supporting our transition to Denver and I'm so thankful for that.  I'm also extraordinarily thankful for my family that is coming to join us.  Brad and his whole family, Mom and Dad.  I relied on them a lot over the past year and they delivered - just as you would hope and expect from family.  I'm also thankful for Marc and Jen, although regrettably they are not able to join us. We'll be thinking of them and wishing they were with us.

Thanksgiving is all about blessings, giving thanks for what we have and not wanting for what we do not.  Mentally I'm in that place more this year than I probably have ever been.  And that will make this Thanksgiving extra special. 

I'm so looking forward to it!