steveb leatherworks: the blather

Yeah Tday – my favorite holiday of the year. An honest American holiday, with no commercial pretense: family and food – that’s it and in my mind, that’s plenty enough – I just don’t need complications right now- gimme a heapin’ helpin of simplicity willya?  Another year under our expanding waistlines, watching the kids grow is exciting and a bit sad in a joyous way, and of course this is the one time of the year we get to mix-it-up with certain family members we don’t see often. We had a small crowd by my family’s standards – 16 people (i think, might’ve have been more) and three dogs. Lots of kids – which make it a real holiday. One big-ass turkey and a boatload of sides, just made it for the crowd of “inhalers”  – not much in the way of leftovers.

So during Thanksgiving, we make the concerted effort to put our collective worries away for the day and focus on enjoying each others company and celebrating our family, because in the end – what else do we have that’s really worth a damn? Who else will simply accept us for who we are, non-judgmentally? Who else know us as well? Who is there, and has been there, while we write the stories of our life?

It’s all good.  I dig Thanksgiving.

See you later, I’m gonna go and watch some TV and sit my lardass down.