Thanksgiving Thanks

I am thankful for many things this Thanksgiving time, but most particularly, the fact that Annabelle is in preschool. I have a precious few hours to be me. Sans kids. Seriously, I am so grateful for the stage of life Matt and I are in. Paige is old enough to babysit for a while, yet not old enough for puberty (yet!!), everyone gets along (usually!!), they like doing things with us still, and life is good...

And, an extra special reason why I was thankful on Thanksgiving (after the fact, admittedly): that was the one day last week that no one was sick. The rest of the days we had various forms (and degrees) of feverish, puking, coughing and sleeping children (one of whom is over 30). :)

XC Fever!!

This is going to be me in a few weeks! (Or as soon as we get enough snow.) I talked my mom into getting me cross country skis for Christmas. (Yay Mom!) I ordered them, they came, and I got the bindings mounted! I actually tried them out on our 15 foot long patch of snow in our yard tonight. (I'm a huge dork, I know...) I might not be able to wait for Christmas! :)

In January there's a Winter Triathlon up in Midway. It's running (on snow), biking (on snow), and xc skiing. I am so stoked! Never really ran or biked on a packed trail before, so I need to try that out before I actually sign up.

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