thankful

I remarked to someone at work today that I've never in my whole life had an adult-style birthday party. This is due in large part to the fact that I spend almost every birthday in Corpus Christi, surrounded by turkey-drunk relatives.

In keeping with this tradition (or lack of tradition), I spent a very low-key birthday with my family on Saturday, visiting with grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. I spent a lot of the day looking through one grandmother's old jewelry and mementos, and most of the evening reminiscing with my little cousins. There's really nothing like spending my 27th birthday surrounded by my beautiful teenaged cousins to make me feel my age.

I'm reminded, though, that I've celebrated every single one of my twenty-seven birthdays with my family, either on the day of my birthday when it falls during the Thanksgiving weekend, or on the week prior. And while I'm sometimes pretty quiet about my upcoming birthday, I've never had it go unnoticed. As sheltered as it makes me feel, in this season of thanksgiving, that's something I'm thankful for.

In other news, I signed up for Jette's Holidailies project again this year. Unlike NaNoWriMo, I've actually started, rather than dropping out before I wrote my first word. I'm hoping to be more successful with the project than I was last year; it's good practice to make myself write more than a sentence or two daily. We'll see how it goes.