Because 21 of my favourite people in the whole world came over last night for turkey, fixin's and generous veggie alternatives, and totally packed my little house with warmth and love, and then stuck around to also pack my house full of clean dishes.
Because I have the best wife, who takes care of my kids at unreasonable times of morning on a Sunday, despite having just been through turkey hell, so that I can go roll around and generally have a delightful time.
Because I continue to have the best wife (she really is the best, you see) who also arranges the nap and outing schedule so that when I come home from rolling around and I crash, having stayed up way too late last night dealing with turkey drippings, I can take a nice long nap at the same time as $grrrl while everyone else leaves the house and lets us sleep.
Because I have the kind of friends like Colin and Jen who will bring Jerusalem takeout home so that when I get up from my nap I can just roll downstairs and dig in.
Because except first I go to get a beer out of the basement fridge, and drop the bottle because I have no hand-eye coordination when I first wake up from a nap, and instead of hitting the concrete floor and breaking into a gazillion highly annoying and inconveninet pieces of glass, the bottle bounces off the fridge door and lands, unharmed, on the rubber mats in the corner.
Because I have the most excellent sister in the world, who will come over and entertain my children so I can eat Jerusalem takeout in peace.
Because I also have the other kind of friends like Shannon and Di who will come over and bring me Pepperidge Farm Muskoka dark chocolate chip soft-baked cookies for eating while we watch the House ep we taped earlier this week.
Because I also have the other kind of friends like Andrew and Keltie who will come over and, after sharing tolerantly watching us stuff our faces with Jerusalem takeout, will snuggle on my sofa and make up goofy songs about "The Justified Ancients of Newfoundland."
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