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In all my 3 1/2 years as a Sheehan, I am going to officially experience a Sheehan Thanksgiving. Why? You ask. Well, Chris and I have made it a point every holiday season, since our nuptials, to spend Christmas with his family. Why? Chris' dad lives and works in Alaska and only comes home for Christmas and the summer months and this has been the main deciding factor behind spending Christmas with the Sheehans.

Like any new member of a large family, transitioning into the new Christmas traditions of the Sheehan's was a bit of a shock to me. Not for any reason in particular, I think I was just being an emotional girl and wanting my own mommy. Poor Chris had to console me every night when we went to bed. Looking back, I was being a sissy and probably a little insecure. :) After 3 years of Christmases, I feel like I have it down pat. It all happens with time.

Now to transition into Sheehan Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is my FAVORITE holiday. I think it all came about because my birthday falls on Thanksgiving every once in a while. So as a little girl, I really thought that it was a holiday to give thanks for me (I know, how conceited)! We would eat wonderful food and my mom would make me one of her famous Cherry pies (I am not lying, those pies have gotten $800 at church pie auctions!). I'm not sure if the Sheehans have gotten the memo that Thanksgiving day is REALLY "Give thanks for Emilie" day, so this could be an interesting holiday. However, one thing I know for sure, I will eat VERY WELL. Kathleen (my mom-in-law) is a top notch cook (Just so you know, BIG shoes to fill if you marry a Sheehan man. Megan has done a stellar job in filling those shoes, but I, on the other hand, made (or should I say, made Chris make?) 4 pre-prepared frozen dinners this week...). I am looking forward to seeing what Kathleen has planned for Thanksgiving. She is so good at putting a menu together. Hmm, now I am getting hungry.

Have you ever made a long trip with books on tape? If not, I highly recommend it. But not those mind exercising self help books, I mean the real good ones like The Chronicles of Narnia or A Series of Unfortunate Events...kids books. Chris and I made our last trip do Denver with Aslan, Lucy, Susan, Edmund, and Peter, and it made our trip MUCH FASTER! Oh yeah! Prince Caspian was there too!

Holiday travel. Hmm.

Matchy Matchy square pants

Charlie has had to start wearing a sweater at night. It is actually pretty funny because he looks like he is wearing a mid-drift sweater due to his LONG body. Makes for a few good laughs!

Charlie and I accidentally put on the same outfit one morning. Chris decided that a picture was in order. Charlie was completely bored with the whole situation.

Blessed

Well, I have has a pretty eventful couple of weeks. No, nothing fun, but a lot of doctor visits. YUCK! But the good news is that I have a few more answers concerning my issues. I have no idea why it took so long for my doctors to figure this out, or to listen to my pleas to get an ultrasound done, but they finally did an ultrasound and found that I have poly cystic ovarian syndrome. Which accounts for my cycle issues and all of my energy issues. I am now taking a medicine that was formulated for diabetics but they accidentally discovered that it eliminates ovarian cysts. So, now we wait and see if it really works. It's supposed to make me hungry more often, but if that is the only side effect, I am OKAY with that!

I have another appointment with a fertility specialist on December 7th. Hopefully I will have more answers after that appointment and hopefully the next ultrasound I get is because I have a baby in my belly. If that doesn't happen, I will be okay with that too, but it would be nice. So, I know that there are way more pressing things to be praying about for other people, that actually are related to life and death, but if you think about it, would you pray for my health and healing? Even if I never do have kids of my own, I really don't think that I would be a very good adopted mother if I am this tired all the time.

I was right about that "baby boom". There are so many woman who are pregnant right now and I keep hearing about more. Jealousy is a ugly and terrible thing and I hate it, but sometimes I am just plain jealous. I hate being jealous, I absolutely hate it. But true to form, God is teaching me so much through all of this and He has giving me more peace than I have experience about this situation ever. And when I really think about it, it's not that big of a deal. I am blessed with so many things that so many people are not blessed with, so I have no reason to be jealous because others can get pregnant and I can't. I have no reason to be unhappy. I am blessed, so blessed.

On a less heavy note. I would like to announce that I won the game of Settlers TWO times in a row after a long and sad streak of always coming in last for the past two years! I really am proud of myself because I was playing with very good players (Tommy, Tiffany, and Chris). Hold your applause, I don't want to get too prideful. :)

Also, it is my birth month! I love my birth month!! Happy November! I sure am blessed!