Happy Thanksgiving.

When I think of Thanksgiving I don't normally think of turkey. Thanksgiving is one of those American holidays like Columbus Day, we celebrate it because it's a tradition but we don't really remember that it went something like this:

Pilgrims arrive to the 'New Land', Indians (yeah, I'm not being politically correct today because I feel like death) offer them corn:

Pilgrims: No way, we've got guns, we've got ships, we can get our own food!
Indians: Yeah well okay, we were just trying to be nice.

3 months later:
Pilgrims: Hey, remember that corn you offered us? Can we have some of that?

And then we'll just force you to live on the smallest plots of crappiest land and pretend like we're nice for letting you have some.

I'm just picturing the pilgrims arriving to land in their little knickers and fluffy shirts and realizing how damn cold it is here. I mean, this is no Spring Break vacation, this is we're freezing extraneous parts off of our body.

Anyways, I wouldn't expect anything less from an American holiday: overconsumption and football. Oh how our holidays embody who we are!

Nah, Thanksgiving isn't that bad, I mean, you get to give thanks for a lot of things... we have a special day devoted to it. In general, I try to always be thankful because I think of myself as a very blessed person. But I'm not going to list the things I'm thankful for because there are too many.

However, in the immediate past I am very thankful that we had a baby girl! "Ella" (as in "Cinderella") is now safely at The Barn after we had a safe trailer traveling experience (my first time driving the horse trailer for more than 5 minutes). She's adorable, tiny, and leaving me feeling overwhelmed. I'm still trying to figure out how to divide my attention between the La and the Little Red One. I think, no matter what, I will always hold the LRO in a very special place since he was my first baby. Oh well, La is for the kids anyways.

It's Thanksgiving, I feel like crud, and I'm going out to the barn.

It's good to be alive.