{"id":1370,"date":"2008-11-28T22:48:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T02:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2008-11-28T22:48:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T02:48:38","slug":"thanksgiving-without-much-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=1370","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving without much thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving for me doesn&#8217;t really mean much. It was always my least favorite holiday and not really looked forward to (being a very picky eater is a big detriment on big family holidays, just to let you know), so I never had any images of Devin on his first Thanksgiving or what we would be doing or where we would be. So for that I was thankful, that made it an easy enough day. The hardest part, for me, was that I kept thinking back to last thanksgiving: that was the day that SIL announced she was pregnant, the first day that she and I were publically pregnant together. I remember exactly what shirt I was wearing that day.<\/p>\n<p>For me, it is not BabyH herself that makes things difficult. I love her to pieces, I love being the special aunt and getting big smiles from her. I love how she fits in my arms and how she stands on my lap. But what I <i>don&#8217;t<\/i> like is watching other people fawn over her. Obviously it&#8217;s going to happen, especially at holidays where there is a gathering of family. I generally just wander off when it starts getting to me. I am happy that for the meal yesterday there were only 6 of us adults. There wasn&#8217;t much fawning.<\/p>\n<p>All in all I say the holiday passed as good as could be expected. I really enjoyed having a day off work &#8211; what a novelty!! A whole day off <i>in the middle of the week<\/i>. Too awesome. (What was not awesome was my dog not writing in her calendar that it was a holiday. 6:00am pee runs in the freezing cold when I could be sleeping in is just so WRONG.)<\/p>\n<p>I do not expect Christmas to pass by so easily. I am already very torn over it all&#8230; a part of me is so thrilled to see Christmas lights out on peoples&#8217; houses, but at the same time I find myself quickly changing the channels when Christmas music comes on. Maybe because it&#8217;s not yet December. I want to be happy and joyful, but I don&#8217;t know if I can do that this year. So I guess I&#8217;m just trying to postpone finding out how bad it will be. I&#8217;ll happily live in ignorance for now, and deal with the big hurdle later.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got my christmas present (a working version, that is): my blackberry arrived! I spent a good chunk of yesterday playing with it. I love it to death. I am very happy with my choice to get the Curve over the Pearl&#8230; I adore the full keyboard and will never go back. This was definitely worth upgrading for. I spent some time this evening making mobile web versions of some little web pages of mine so I can check things quickly and easily from my blackberry without wading through crap. It&#8217;s certainly a very different way of viewing web sites!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving for me doesn&#8217;t really mean much. It was always my least favorite holiday and not really looked forward to (being a very picky eater is a big detriment on big family holidays, just to let you know), so I never had any images of Devin on his first Thanksgiving or what we would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,69],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ivf-3","tag-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}