We had our Thanksgiving celebration at our house on Sunday, so it keeps catching me out of the blue that “real” Thanksgiving hasn’t even happened yet. Ordinarily we have ours on the Saturday after, but this year things worked out better with our schedules the weekend before. While we were getting dinner ready and on the table, Debbie reminded me that it was our ten-year anniversary of celebrating the holiday together, and that the first time we’d done it had also been at my house. Though back then there were only two kids in attendance and these days we’ve got eight between us!

I am thankful every day for very many things, but on Sunday I was especially thankful for Debbie, who not only provided half of a delicious feast, but stayed after and almost single-handedly cleaned my kitchen! I am positive that is the only time in my life that my kitchen has been cleaner after guests left than it was when they arrived!

Sunday night and Monday I devoted almost entirely to school work, and I actually managed to get everything on my list completed. Admittedly, none of it super high quality work, but it’s submitted, and that’s at least half the battle.

Right now I’m in Uppsala, having arrived a couple of hours ago and with a couple of hours left before my meeting/seminar starts. My classes on Thursday and Friday don’t start until one o’clock in the afternoon, and I’m very much looking forward to not having early mornings those days. I probably should get up early anyway and get some work done, but I’m laughing even as I type that, knowing it will never happen. I love very few things as much as I love sleep.