Monday, December 15, 2008

Surviving and Thriving at Thanksgiving


My wife is a champ. We had 25 people over at our house for Thanksgiving, and 13 people who stayed the weekend. My daughter Brooklyn was nice enough to congratulate me after finishing the annual Habitrot 5K that many of the family run every Thanksgiving morning. We then went to Krispy Kreme to offset anything positive gained by running the 5K. My 90 year-old grandmother/jazz pianist entertained us by playing 'It Had To Be You' at an impromptu concert at our house that weekend with our neighbors. It turns out that was the only song known by both a 90 year-old-Virginian and some 30 something New Yorkers who met up with some Hoosiers in Tennessee.