Make some dough...

Yesterday I decided to "nudge" my sluggish Holiday spirit into gear by forced labor...making batches of cookie dough for our Thanksgiving celebration in Alabama and by listening to an all-Holiday-all-crooner radio station. Gus and I rocked out to the sound of the whirring Kitchen Aid and Bing Crosby all afternoon. Gus discovered how delicious cookie dough is and I reflected backward and forward on the Holidays and what they mean, have meant, and will mean to me...I'm grateful for all of it - this life, it's purpose and the meaning I take from it.