Thanksgiving by the numbers.

(This is me not complaining.)

For Thanksgiving break, my true love shared with me

one Coleman air mattress,

two broken cars

three children on antibiotics

four kids snoozing in sleeping bags

five hundred miles (to drive twice)

six thousand family history snippets

I was going to continue with the little spoof, but my brain's not quite up to it. Read on if you'd like more details....

thirty-three people in one house

two people with influenza (Andy and me)

two broken down cars (ours, in the shop while we traveled in a very kind family member's car)

six teams geo-caching

50 (or so) deer wandering the neighborhood

Nature and Science museum (kids)

The Muppets movie (kids -- while Andy and I were lost in our fevered, flu stupor)

A traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner

much wrangling to get a photo of the whole fam-damily

17 Miracles (the movie)

14000 foot mountains

a trillion beautiful stars on the way home

My Super Powers, well at least three of them

Oh how I love a list with bullet points!

• I am a great speller. Seriously. 3 of my 4 kids are in school. So far, none of them have inherited this talent from me. They're awesome in other ways though.
• Regeneration -- mostly things like warts, moles and toe nails. They grow back--even when doctors tell me that they will not grow back. I hope that if I ever lose a very important body part that it will also grow back. Actually, I hope I never need to wish that.
• I forget lyrics to songs and also who sings them. But, as soon as the music plays, I magically remember and I sing along. It's as if I have early-onset dementia that is cured as soon as the play button is pushed. A miracle, I tell you!
• I am really, really good at cleaning. But I hate to do it.

Whoops--I said three. That last one there is a bonus. Counting probably isn't one of my super powers.