Holidays are here

I remember when I was young everyone use to say, the older you get the faster time flys.. Well, I'll say. I was just trying to make plans with friends to go mountain biking and its....Thanksgiving. I will miss spending Thanksgiving with my family, but I will get to see them over the weekend when I head home on Friday.

One of my favorite parts about Thanksgiving is walking in from the cold, into a warm home with the smell of turkey in the oven and the family laughing and talking over each other. When my family gets together NO ONE can get a word in, we all have so much to say, lots of belly laughs and I love it!

I also have my highschool reunion this weekend. I always enjoy going because I don't see many of classmates from CT now that I live in Vermont. I've lost touch with alot of people I use to be close to and I always have hopes of reconnecting. What usually happens is those who I expect to be there aren't and I end up talking to people I didn't know very well. It's funny when people feel the need to talk to you when they don't know you and you act like you know them and you know in their head they're like....um, who is this person. Last reunion we had to wear our year book picture pinned on our shirt. good times. I didn't think I changed much. I forgot how long my hair was, and how shy I was!

Isn't it funny how we see things as we saw them 5 or 10 or 20 years ago, and they look the same. The house we grew up in. The highschool we went to. Our favorite dirt road to walk or drive on. The mountain we love to climb. The stores we love to shop at, but we look different then we did 5, 10 or 20 years ago. Our surroundings look the same, but we've changed with age.

I was frantically looking/shopping for something to wear to this reunion, like I don't have enough in my closet to chose from, and who am I trying to impress? Half the S*&@ I tried on looked like I was trying to hard, the rest looked stupid. Why can't I just wear jeans and a t-shirt. Thats what I live in on a daily basis.

Happy Thanksgiving whether it's with family, friends or with a good book, its day about being grateful and my hope and wish is that for you

smiles
Mary