What I'm Thankful For This Year
As we head into the holiday season, I'm just thinking back and feeling utterly amazed and grateful that we live in a time when four people who needed a family could find each other, despite being thousands of miles apart. About this time last year, I was in Hawaii with Xander eating pineapple until my mouth went numb and getting ripped up by lava rock in the ocean*:
Which was great and all, but this year we're sitting around listening to giggles and squeals and enjoying scenes like this:
*I am extremely thankful for my husband, who when he realized I was getting pounded into the rock by the waves and that my skin was being ripped from my body, wrapped his arm around my stomach, kicked off from the rock, and swam with me on his chest for several yards until I was safe. And then, when faced with the choice between going to urgent care or drinking a Bucket of Fire at the Fish Hopper, he supported my decision to go for the obscenely large cocktail instead of stitches. Xander is a total superhero.
Incidentally, that cut took months to heal. I probably should have gone for the stitches, but the Bucket of Fire provided happier memories.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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Thanks for the comments. Of course we should meet if you come out to Portland! Also, your 'pregnancy' photos with the ball is one of my favorite adoption posts EVER. Truly. Autumn is the one who showed it to me, and we both cracked up.
This is actually kind of creepy to me, because a week ago Thursday I cut my left thumb badly--the only thing that stopped me from cutting it clear to the bone was the knife glanced off my thumbnail. My husband tried to drag me off to the hospital, but I refused to go. The next afternoon, I took the bandage off and nearly passed out, it looked so bad. So off to the ER we went, for some butterfly stitches and a tetanus shot.
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