Happy Thanksgiving!

These days holiday's always seem to make me reflect on life...past, present, and future. I'm very thankful for my amazing parents, my husband, other influential family, friends (esp close gf's here on the West Coast), and most importantly my health. Being 3000 mi away from my immediate family usually means that I don't get to spend it with them which I seem to always struggle with. Thanksgiving at my parents house brings back so many happy memories from growing up and now that I'm a Mrs., I realize that holidays probably will never be the same. Not in a bad way necessarily, but just different. The merging of two families (mine with the in laws) means being away from the traditions and memories you experienced as a family growing up and learning to adapt to new ones. I've being saying for the last 2 years since the engagement that the transition from "me to we" is one of the hardest phases of life for women, and one of the least talked about topics. The range of emotions I've gone through the last two days prove to me that I'm still going through that transition...6 months later. While I definitely feel more like a wife, I realize that I am still very much parents daughter. I wonder if that will ever end? That's it for now, off to celebrate the in laws traditions. Here's to attempting to make them my own! Missing all my east coast friends and family, gobble gobble. xoxo...