I am a crier by nature. Lots of things make me cry. Sad times, happy times, when I'm nervous or when my husband tickles me too much. And for some reason, every year, around this time, EVERYTHING makes me want to cry!
And each year, as lives change or people pass on, I get a little more WEEPY. I always think of my grandmother. We would go to her house for Thanksgiving dinner. We would walk in, the turkey already cooked, usually drying out on the stove top, naked of it's crispy skin because everyone that walked by before we got there would pick a piece off. Even though the turkey was hard to eat without a bite of jellied cranberry sauce to accompany it down the hatch, I still miss going there. I hope she gets to eat the most succulent bird she's ever tasted while she's in heaven!
But I get to have dinner this year with my husband's grandparents. They are 89 and 91 and still getting around. I can't believe gram wants to cook at all! I think at that age, I'll have someone deliver my turkey and prepare it for me :o)
After that we'll head over to my sister's house to have dessert with her family and my parents. It will be so nice to have JUST the family there. No younger cousins running around, wasting perfectly good apple pie and Cool Whip (I also remember that from my grandmother's house, it seriously tweaked me to no end).
I guess this year, being a newlywed, I am thankful for my husband and the love he gives me every day. I am thankful for my family and friends and for all memories, old and new, happy and sad, that I will cherish forever. *Yep, getting a little teary now, lol*
I swear, I'll try not to blubber all over myself when I see Santa coming down the street at the end of the Macy's parade on TV.
omg, i've been terrible today. i am playing x mas music...trying to pep up my mood...and all i want to do is CRY! what's wrong with us?!
ReplyDelete...oh, and if they play kenny g one more time, i may have to rip off my ears!
I hope you have a lovely holiday all things considered, I get a little weepy too during the holidays! As our family has grown older, we've lost touch and no longer share some of those family traditions. I can understand what you mean!
ReplyDeleteI hope you had a great Thanksgiving!! I'm weepy all the time anymore, I'm just hoping it's these hormones they have my own, I sure can't handle being like this!! Haha.
ReplyDeleteAny sort of thing I remember fondly from childhood makes me a little weepy too! My husband says I have it backwards and I'm supposed to be happy :)
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