Reflections

This probably has to be a first for me two blog posts in a single day.  I was taking the bins out to the road for pickup tomorrow morning.  I love this time of year.  There is a slight chill to the air and the smell of wood stoves fills the crisp-night air.  I just love it.  Living in CA means it doesn't get too terribly cold and I don't have to worry about the snow unlike my sisters.  They are still in Idaho finishing up school.

I love my family.  We are a close bunch and I think that is really important.  We have our share of conflicts but we stand by each other through thick and thin.  I was playing catan online with my sisters and during the post game chat they were talking about watching a movie together and one of them possibly staying the night with the other.  It was then I missed being there at school with them.  This is the first year I have been at school without any of my immediate family within a 15 minute walk from where I am.  I miss it.  I was thinking that if I was still there they would be with my wife and me watching a movie and staying the night at our place even though they probably shouldn't because we'd have homework to finish.  It then occurred to me that actually we wouldn't be doing that because if my wife and I were still in school we would have driven down to Utah Friday to be with my aunt and uncle and their family for thanksgiving.  It would have been the first time we did that.  We would have had a lot of fun.

It is amazing how much can change in so little time.  I'm not a parent but I suppose parents already know this with children that grow so quickly.  This is the time of year we get to reflect on what we are thankful for, what matters most to us, as well as the turkey dinner.  Here in the states we are lucky to have one more holiday for that sort of thing, not many other countries have a thanksgiving.  So remember to tell those people who are important in your life how much they mean to you.  I know I will be.