Memory Keeper

For many months I haven't blogged because of 1) laziness 2) busy-ness and 3) Facebook. Laziness is my cross to bear, busy-ness comes from being a full-time working mom, and Facebook is a time suck. I had, for a while there, convinced myself that Facebook was somehow fulfilling my desire to connect to my on-line friends. And it does, sort of. I like the regular updates in blurb fashion that you can get there. I was lulled into thinking keeping updated was good enough. Then I was talking to a friend about how one day Mimi referred to a giant mound of laundry as a "great big pile of heap". I had written a quick blurb about it on Facebook days before but that conversation made me realize that I had been doing a lousy job of documenting those wonderful little moments in my daughters' lives. Facebook is no keeper of memories.

So here I am.

Meanwhile, time has flown by. My girls are way bigger. Major life events have occurred. A thousand plays have been performed in the living room, hair styles have changed, and much cuteness has gone undocumented. Good golly, what will sustain me through the teenage years if I can't relive the cuteness???

Not that I have anything major to report today--not much more than to say I think it's time to come back to the blogging world.

In the name of memory keeping, it might be nice to note that today is Thanksgiving. I'm cooking the turkey, stuffing, wild rice (a Grandpa Wesley Native American tradition), and slapping together a relish tray. Yesterday I made a Guinness Gingerbread Cake and have plans to smother it with whip cream and eat most of it myself after dinner. We'll be loading up our food and walking the 40 feet or so over to our neighbors for a celebration of friendship--one that we are extremely thankful for.

Otherwise it has been a fairly quiet morning. Bacon and cinnamon rolls for breakfast while we watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a lovely performance by our daughters entitled "Joy To the World Confetti Surprise!" (No surprise as to who vacuumed after), a pie-run (3 miles to earn myself unlimited slices later on...that's how it works and don't try to tell me otherwise because I am not receiving any information on that subject at this time), and being thankful for all sorts of things, especially my beloved family.