1st and 2nd Thanksgiving

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
I have a very extended family.....very.
This Thanksgiving was spent with my father and his fiance and her kids and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. My brother also came. It was amazing to see how everyone has grown and changed. I haven't  seen everyone in years. All the kids diapers I used to change and now they are having babies of their own (and yes, I got in there and changed them too!) I just love babies!

So my niece Amanda found a tape from 1991 and 1992. It was a couple of the grandchildren's birthdays. Their 1st and 2nd birthdays. So I was eager to watch...not to mention my kids being able to see mommy as a kid herself (10 to 12 yrs old at this point).  Funny thing though, every time you saw me, I had a baby in my arms. Or I was playing with the kiddos. (At one point there wasn't any babies to hold so I held the dog...a pug mix).  It was very surreal to see those videos and go back. I was joking with the now 19 yr old Taylor (AKA: Bug), that all I wanted to be was a mommy when I grew up and that's why I just loved holding the babies. But that's not all; I insisted on changing diapers and feeding them too. I was really gung-ho about taking care of the kiddos back then.

All the while we are watching the videos of Amanda's first birthday, I was cradling her newborn baby girl. How strange time is and what a funny feeling to have come full circle. That was our 1st Thanksgiving of this year.

So now I have just come home from our 2nd Thanksgiving, of this year, with my father-in-law and his girlfriend and my brother-in-law and his wife, and I realize that nothing has changed in the short 7yrs I have been in this family. We talk about the first time we all met, what we really thought of each other and how everyone had doubts about Jeff's and mine whirlwind romance into marriage.  Its quite the insight to see what everyone first thought about when we first got together, but look at us now! No one really thought it would last, but here we are 9 years later (8 years married) and we aren't going anywhere.

So thankful for both of my families and so thankful for such a brave, wonderful, smart and hardworking husband. I wouldn't change anything for the world. So this year, I am once again reminded that my life is awesome, my kids rock (they aren't perfect, but they totally rock!) and I love my husband with all my heart!
God is so good!!