wrestling thank-full-ness

It's always the weirdest feeling... our household busy prepping for the holiday and exactly ZERO other people in our neighborhood who have a clue that tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day.

Regardless of the holiday-ignorance our neighborhood claims, we'll be celebrating with friends and a feast and thank-full hearts. 

A few "day before prep" photos....

Our pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese icing and imported-straight-from-America candy corn decor :)  [otherwise known as "kids' dessert"]

Julianna working on yet another pumpkin - at the rate we consume these things I should seriously consider pumpkin farming.  

And one of the best parts of the day - oh how sorely my heart needed this post-dinner crazed tickle wrestle match.

Yesterday was a brutal motherhood day, the kind that makes you want to curl into a ball and hide in the bathtub. 

All this crazy hubbub left me laughing so hard my sides hurt. 

So tonight, in the midst of a long hard season that leaves me struggling to hope in God's goodness, I'm especially thankful for wrestling matches.  And dreaming of next year when there will be two more kiddos to add to the pile of twisting, wriggling arms and legs. 


My last baking of the day (pumpkin pie) coming out of the oven within minutes.  Tomorrow morning I cook the ham (and scalloped corn and yeast rolls) and we'll be celebrating all day long :) 

Thankful.