Happy Thanksgiving, 2020!
Category: wish
Be grateful and share what you have
The Santa Fe Fall Fiber Fiesta put on by the Española Valley Fiber Arts Center was a BIG SUCCESS. I can’t be happier or more grateful for the chance to sell my rugs there and to hang with other talented fiber chicks for a weekend. Okay, and to buy a few things from them. Hey, Christmas is right around the corner now. You can even hear Santa’s sleigh bells just under the gobbles of the turkey.
Which brings me to my holiday wish for you:
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends. Let’s remember to be grateful for the food and other things we have right now and to share them with those less fortunate. We’re all in this thing we call life together.
When you get what you wished for…
We made it. After logging about 2200 miles, the kid and I finally arrived in Albuquerque a few days ago. We killed a couple of nights in a cheap motel, did some touristy things, and got into the rental house late Saturday evening. Now we wait.
Tom’s still in Massachusetts, though not for long. The house closed today; the truck left with our belongings. Tom and the dog will head to my parents’ in Connecticut tonight, then begin their own long journey out here tomorrow. I bid them good weather and no traffic jams. Really, I can’t wait to see them.
As much as we’ve wished for these days to arrive (especially during last year’s endless winter), it’s been a tough couple of weeks: saying goodbye to family and friends; leaving everything we know, including the house; living out of suitcases; days in the car (particularly those few hundred miles slogging through the flat-lands of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas on a two-lane road); throwing out my back once we arrived…
But I knew these would be trying times, no matter how much we wanted them. Until we find a house to make into our new home, until we make friends and integrate onto communities out here, we’ll be on edge. Change is good — we want to challenge ourselves to grow — but it’s stressful too. Do you realize that the cable TV in this house doesn’t include HGTV, the Food Network, or the Travel Channel? What will I do without House Hunters and the Property Brothers?!!? I suppose I’ll thank goodness for the things that don’t change: hooking; reading and writing; family; and even social media that keeps me in touch with all of you.
Stay tuned for more of the adventure…
