Gobble Gobble... Gullible!

Spending the Holidays away from home and your family is always hard.  And to be honest I didn't have high hopes for this Thanksgiving at all.  I was pretty bummed about the fact that Nick and I were both working so we couldn't really even attempt to celebrate.

On Wednesday night before Thanksgiving Nick and I went grocery shopping after work - STARVING.  Not a good idea.  We pretty much bought everything in the entire store, times two.  Our cab driver on the way home even asked us if we "had a big family"... Umm.... no we're just hungry - LAY OFF!

So anyways Thursday night I was on my way home and Nick calls me and says he is on the bus just ahead of me, and asked me what I was making for dinner tonight.  Umm husband you'll be home before me!  Maybe perhaps you could cook with the plethora of food we bought the previous night????  So he tells me he will make his "special" pasta, which I don't really think is special at all I mean it's essentially a glorified version of spaghetti and I thought considering we spent like two week's worth of my minimum wage salary on exotic ingredients at the supermarket the night before he could come up with something a little tastier.  So I sat on the bus in a foul mood wondering what it was about marriage that suddenly makes your better half turn deaf, dumb, and blind....  (did I mention earlier in the week he thought someone stole our vacuum?  I told him it was in the guest room, but it took him like 2 hours to find it!  It is a big vacuum.  soooo blind!)

Anyways I get home after a long bus ride of stewing and brewing these nasty thoughts... and I walk in the door to find this....

And since we're being honest, I'll admit that I burst into tears.  

Which really confused him, but they were happy tears.  

And then he appeared with this...

A vegetarian nut roast... and I think I cried again. 

 But then I stopped crying and we sat down to this delicious meal...

I am generally pretty easy to surprise, but I couldn't believe this.  

He took the afternoon off work to come home and cook me a Thanksgiving feast.

It was definitely delicious, but it's also the thought that counts right? 

I don't usually go for that kind of bullshit, but this meant everything to me.

I am SO thankful to have found him...  

In an AOL chat room in September 2001.

It's a Christian chat room, Mom! ;)

I swear he's not a pedo, Dad!

See, we all turned out alright!

Hope you all had very good Thanksgivings too!

ps.  Check that nut roast recipe out, it was soooo effing good!