Big Family Dinners

Most holidays everyone gets crazy about creating large family dinners. Sometimes one person does all the cooking, sometimes other members bring a piece, sometimes the pieces are brought and prepared together, and sometimes the members eat out.
I enjoyed the big family dinners for the holidays but the stress of making sure the dinner was good and there was enough to feed everyone was not fun. For the last few years, Thanksgiving has been the one holiday I have been blessed to not have to cook. Our family has started a new tradition for Thanksgiving which gives my mother-n-law, sister-n-law, and myself the ability to enjoy the time with family without the stress of preparing the food.
With every holiday the key ingredient is family and the point is to enjoy that ingredient. So, no matter what your traditions are don't forget the point of the get-togethers, the main ingredient, "FAMILY" is the reason.

Happy Holidays to you all!

Feeling thankful

I can't believe how fast this year has gone by, it is only a week until Thanksgiving and four weeks until Christmas. I haven't even started my shopping for gifts. I can't say I am not a procrastinator at times but when it comes to shopping I am a big procrastinator for sure. This year has been a true whirlwind. There have been good things and sad things but all in all, it has been a good year. I stepped outside my comfort zone and ran into the sky and joined the ranks of other women who became paramotor pilots. I have met some really amazing people whom I am honored to call friends and family. I spent more time with my family than I have in many years. I spent a lot of time traveling to FL, a couple of those trips were for sad circumstances but I got to spend time with family members I had not seen in a very long time. Looking back it seems like I crammed so much into one year but it felt good. It actually reminded me how much I don't like staying still. The downside to it is that life doesn't always allow for that amount of activity or even a fraction of the activity I got this year. I have a lot to be thankful for and not just for the events of this year.