{"id":135,"date":"2007-11-24T02:27:15","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T07:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=135"},"modified":"2008-03-16T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T19:46:07","slug":"the-view-of-thanksgiving-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"The view of Thanksgiving from here"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s 12:30 in the morning, and my whole family is asleep.\u00c2\u00a0 Lily has had a very exciting couple of days because her cousins, aunts and uncles have been here for the Thanksgiving holiday.\u00c2\u00a0 Since she is overtired from two days of excitement,\u00c2\u00a0we had a lot of “instant meltdown” this evening.<\/p>\n

And our house, which was already messy before Thanksgiving started, has surpassed into “what the hell?” after hosting family for two days.\u00c2\u00a0 And I am supposed to be catching up on our finances right now.\u00c2\u00a0 People who already overspend, like Matt and myself, tend to\u00c2\u00a0really<\/em> overspend during the holiday season.\u00c2\u00a0 The holidays are a dangerous time for rampant consumers, like an alcoholic being invited to an open-bar wedding — you can get through it, but you have to be\u00c2\u00a0mindful of your weakness\u00c2\u00a0at every moment until the party is over… if you drop your guard for too long, you fall back into impulse and habit and wake up the next morning with regret.<\/p>\n

Thanksgiving piccies:<\/p>\n


\nMatt preparing the Thanksgiving feast.
\nMatt, the expatriate Englishman who never celebrated Thanksgiving
\nbefore coming here in 2000, has cooked our Thanksgiving feast
\nfor the last four or five Thanksgivings. He said it’s not difficult
\nat all because Thanksgiving dinner is the same as Christmas
\ndinner in England. In fact, that is how Glenn described
\nThanksgiving: “a dress rehearsal for Christmas.” This year,
\nMatt’s meal was amazing<\/em>. Really amazing<\/em>.
\nThanksgiving 2007
\n22 November 2007<\/p>\n


\nTickle-mania!
\nThanksgiving 2007
\n22 November 2007<\/p>\n


\nMore tickle-mania.
\nThanksgiving 2007
\n22 November 2007<\/p>\n


\nLogan, Carla, and Lily, as always, holding Clara
\nThanksgiving 2007
\n22 November 2007<\/p>\n


\nCarla and Lily feeding Clara
\nThanksgiving 2007
\n22 November 2007<\/p>\n


\nSteve and Lily feeding Clara
\n(The three of them are watching
\nthe Cowboys game in this picture.)
\nThanksgiving 2007
\n22 November 2007<\/p>\n


\nCarla with her kids
\n(This picture also shows the very cute
\nkitty-cat ensemble Clara was wearing.)
\nThanksgiving 2007
\n22 November 2007<\/p>\n


\nMatt falling asleep on the floor after cooking and eating all day.
\n(Isn’t that what Thanksgiving is all about — cooking and eating?)
\nThanksgiving 2007
\n22 November 2007<\/p>\n


\nThe older cousins
\nThanksgiving 2007
\n22 November 2007<\/p>\n


\nLily fell fast asleep on Cody
\nafter a full day of playing with her cousins.
\nThanksgiving 2007
\n22 November 2007<\/p>\n

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving full of food and family.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope everyone else had a wonderful Thanksgiving too. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s 12:30 in the morning, and my whole family is asleep.\u00c2\u00a0 Lily has had a very exciting couple of days because her cousins, aunts and uncles have been here for the Thanksgiving holiday.\u00c2\u00a0 Since she is overtired from two days of excitement,\u00c2\u00a0we had a lot of “instant meltdown” this evening. And our house, which was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recovering-consumer","category-surburbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}