🍁🍁 Happy Thanksgiving

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It feels different this year. Different because I’m not starting the day weighed down by exhaustion. Not carrying batches of emotional pie dough on my shoulders. I remember the years of going through a sack of white sugar, a box or two of brown, a bottle of sticky corn syrup, sticks of butter. The coated counters to clean, the rolling pin to scrub, the flour flying all over. 

I remember the years of thinking I was making Emily Luchetti’s best pie for the family but then finishing it all by myself the next day.

I am I, and you are you. I hope and pray for a peaceful, meaningful day of gratitude.

Oh, I know there will be challenges. The teenager will try some rudeness. She will also want to show up at her grandparents’ family dinner in some kind of inappropriate outfit that will raise eyebrows. The adult daughter, who would have also done the latter in years past, will be tired from socializing late. The stress will mount as we drop off the kitten to our friend, pack up the elderly dog, join all the drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike for a 2.5-hour car trip. 

I am determined to fit in a quick lavender bath and TO DO MY MAKEUP and even APPLY MOISTURIZER before our estimated departure time of 11:30 a.m. To pull on black tights, slip on black suede pumps, tie a wrap dress--if I can find a clean black tank to wear under it because the neckline is too low. To put on earrings and my charm bracelet. If I can find the right earring backs.

I’ve been thinking about how lucky I am. At this moment. Not alone at the end of my life. Here surrounded by people I love. Able to care for myself and others. 

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