Thank You!

What a wonderful Thanksgiving! It started on Tuesday when Mary came home! Then Wednesday I took off work and just totally relaxed. Mary and I shopped a little then later (11:30) we picked up Sarah at the airport! We stopped at IHOP on the way home and we stayed up WAAAAYYY too late.

This morning I woke up too early! But I was so joyful, I wanted to wake up so I wouldn't waste it sleeping. Chris and I went to Mass at 9 and then came home and made sweet potatoes (he makes the best) and lots of pies. At 3ish we all went to our good friends the Wells for Thanksgiving dinner - 30 people all together at their house. It was so nice to see them. We brought home pie - YIKES! We started watching Psycho (what a wonderful holiday film) but I forgot how boring it is in the beginning. Everyone has wandered away!

Our good friends the Whitehursts just called from Stanford where they're visiting their daughter. We usually spend Thanksgiving with them so they wanted us to know they were thinking of us. Thank you God for wonderful friends!

Thankful is definitely what I'm feeling today. God has blessed us abundantly. I am so grateful for our family, for our shared faith, for our extended families and how supportive and loving they are, for all the ways God has shown us his love this last year.

Sarah, Glenda, and Fares Oh My!

I saw Sarah today! I'm in NYC for a conference and she bussed (that's kissed isn't it?) bused into town from Phillie. We rode on the subway, shopped, went to dinner with my co-workers and then went to see the broadway play Wicked (about the Wicked Witch of the West and Glenda the Good Witch). Such fun.

Then we came back to Williams' corporate apartment (it has "Helmsley" in its name and we could all see why) and slept together in a Murphy twin bed and talked til we fell asleep.

Life is beautiful.