I doubt any of you are actually reading blogs on this awesome holiday, but if you are, Happy Turkey Day!
Yesterday (we’re a day ahead in New Zealand) I made my office go around the table and say what they’re thankful for while eating homemade pumpkin pie and drinking cranberry cider.
Thanks to my mother, a Thanksgiving can’t go by without making a list of the things I’m grateful for this year:
- The opportunity to live in a country most of my friends and family have never even dreamed of visiting.
- My incredible job.
- My beautiful, wonderful friends. Both old and new.
- My brothers. We don’t speak as often as I’d like, but they are the most clever, funny, intelligent boys on the planet.
- My parents, who both drive me up a wall and make me want to desperately jump on a plane just to see them.
- Hot yoga. Without which I would probably be insane.
- Good music.
- The New Zealand sunshine.
- Knowing enough Americans to actually celebrate Thanksgiving 8,820 miles from home.
- Flat whites. ‘Nough said.
- Living so close to epic scenery and hundreds of isolated beaches.
- Group deal sites. No joke, they make up my entire social life and prompt me to do things like windsurfing and wine tasting.
- This blog, which continues to introduce me to my favorite people, prompt amazing conversations and grows daily into something I’m proud of.
- Libby’s canned pumpkin. I can’t open it without being hit with that smell. You know the one. The one that immediately transports me back to my family’s kitchen on Thanksgiving morning.
Hope you all have a wonderful day!
