turkey day...

For most people, one Thanksgiving dinner where you devour all the turkey, potatoes, stuffing and pie as your belly and pants can possibly hold is plenty. Think of the thousands of calories in that one, go-for-it meal and the countless hours on the treadmill to reverse the damage. Aaaahhh...gluttonous bliss. 

Our makeshift dining table - 2
picnic tables, 1 king size sheet,
1 tablecloth, 10 mismatched
chairs & wine glasses. Perfect.

For the past 10 years, Scott and I have had the pleasure of gorging not just once, but twice. In the same day. We always go to his parents' house for early dinner around 2 and then head over to my parents' for late dinner around 6. So technically, it's not even twice in 24 hours...it's twice in like 4 hours. I'm still not recovered!

The cool thing is that, unlike a lot of people, we actually like spending time with our families, especially at the holidays! If we could have 2 full separate days to celebrate with each of them instead of splitting the day, we'd be set.  

adoption day - it's official!

In the courtroom...Tagg was not happy
about being awake so early! But who was, really?

It’s Wednesday, November 24^th, the day before Thanksgiving. I guess everyone pretty much knows that but this year, we have more than usual to be thankful for. We finalized Sloane’s adoption this morning! It’s weird. Even though she’s been with us since she came home from the hospital in May, and the birth parents signed relinquishment 2 weeks later…we always still worry, just a little bit, that something’s going to go wrong till the judge signs the papers and makes it official. Like official-official.

so, what's with the name?

Over the years, I've worked with this amazing and hysterical guy name John Yoon who tosses off these one-liners that make you laugh till you want to pee. We call them Yoonisms, and we used to write them on the white board in the office thinking we’d make a calendar or a book out of them someday. One of my favorites was “you are the throwaway pancake.”

Well, my real favorite was “You’re not too sweaty for a fat guy” but that doesn’t really make a good blog title and it really didn’t have much to do with me except that sometimes I probably give compliments like that.