Thankful December 13, 2006
For the first time in many years, I did not attend the Thanksgiving meal at my parents' house. I was sad and guilty about it. My decision was based on a number of things but primarily it was due to the number of people and the type of people visiting my parents' home that day. I regularly cook a majority of the food for the Thanksgiving meal and I still brought over those dishes to my parents' home that morning. I felt badly about just sticking them with the work and the loss of the family favorites that I make every year. I enjoy cooking for the people that I love. I have great pleasure hearing about how they have enjoyed the foods that I worked so hard to make special and delicious for them.
For me, missing Thanksgiving at my parents' home began a season of being cognisent about my good life and the things for which I am thankful.
Peter and I are mostly best friends but we also love each other romantically and inspire each other creatively in business. I recently visited an art museum without Peter (a rarity) and I really wished that he was there for his acute, funny and insightful comments. He always amazes me with his unbelievable jewelry skills, knowledge and design. I absolutely cannot believe the garbage that is promoted by most jewelry shops when I see what he makes. There are very few jewelers around the world that have the creative mind or technical skills that Peter possesses. People who purchase his pieces should have them signed in my opinion because at some point his time will come, and only a fool would ignore the value of his original and hand made pieces. I am thankful every day that somehow Peter and I found each other. I cannot imagine spending my life with anyone else.
Pierson is a joy and my love. I never knew why my father did the things he did for me until I had Pierson. I would lay down my life for him without question. He is a wonderful, brilliant, funny, athletic and creative boy. He brings light to my life everyday.
The funny thing about me and extended family is that I really appreciate them more due to the horrible experiences with other extended family members. (I guess that makes me a bad person in a way.) But our extended family is either beyond wonderful with some or beyond everyday evil with the others. My Nan and Pap, my stepsister and her husband, the Texas clan, Peter's fraternal family, and others who we have mutually adopted as family, give me and Peter life (sometimes literally with brownies and food) and they give me the light at the end of the tunnel. Peter's father sends us a very extravagant gift every year and I am so grateful but I also wish that we lived closer so that we could enjoy the thing we want from him the most....his company and the company of Noah and Annette and the rest of the Maui and Oahu clan!
So, I am thankful because I am very fortunate and loved and I wish the same for everyone!
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