Unhappy Thanksgiving: Week in Review

When you have older kids home for the holiday, Thanksgiving week means bigger grocery and electric bills, lots of laundry, and people coming in and out at all hours of the day and night.

This is the norm when your kids are 19 and 22. I expected it. I planned for it. I was ready for it.

What I wasn’t ready for was the flu.

Or being bedridden for nearly a week.

Or having heart complications and spending the day in the ER.

Or S’s accident and his trip to the ER for stitches.

Or O’s car needing new breaks. (Unrelated, but of course, add something else in.)

None of this was on my vision board for the week.

Luckily, S only needed five stitches above his right eye, and there’s no damage to his vision. The other silver lining? I finally lost those last five pounds (the only positive to having the flu).

I think it’s safe to say this Thanksgiving week wasn’t pretty or planned, but it was memorable — even if for all the wrong reasons.

Fingers crossed Christmas break is without illness or injury.

—LJDT