On Thanksgiving, we go to my mom and dad's, have some stress of some sort about the food, eat way too much and then play a football game. Every other year, my cousin and his family come up so the game takes on all new meaning. I usually have a couple of pretty good photos from the day. Not this year.
I won't bore you (or gross you out) with the details, but I got sick about 1:30 am Thanksgiving morning. It's been a long time since I've been that sick. You can imagine all the downsides. Well, maybe one not so obvious one. I didn't get to visit with my cousin's family....I literally didn't get out of bed on Thursday. I really enjoy them and his wife is a sweetheart. (I really like her.) She went to Wal-Mart with me for one of the multiple trips I made because I forgot something. And, well, you know small-town Wal-Marts, you see people you know. You may not have seen them for 20 years so you have to catch up. She was so patient.
The upsides? Well, for the first time ever, I didn't overeat on Thanksgiving. As a matter of fact, I didn't eat even one bite. I think the best upside, though, was seeing how all my boys were so concerned and trying to take care of me. Of course, my mother did too, but that's what mother's do - we can't help it. Love her for it, but it wasn't the same as Christopher coming in to pat on me and put his face on my cheek. Or, James hearing me at 1:30 and coming to check on me and get me a wash cloth. My sweet husband who checked on me every little bit and sat in the room with me in case I needed anything.
It wasn't what I had expected, but I had so much to be thankful on Thanksgiving day.
Did you continue your trip, or come on home?
ReplyDeleteWe were already in Troy so I stayed in bed there. Yesterday I was feeling much better - not a lot of food - so we continued to Moultrie last night. I'm loving that I know I didn't gain 5 pounds from dinner :)
ReplyDeleteOooooh, that sounded rough. Cool to see the blessings and all that there was to be thankful for in the midst of it all.
ReplyDeleteTraci