I am thankful for trips home. For as close as I live [four hours away is the closest I’ve lived in four years] I don’t get home very often. It’s good when I do.
I took a sanity day last Wednesday and headed for southern Wisconsin. For this trip home, I slumbered at my grandparent’s house in Edgerton along with my mom and my sister. [My mom’s new house is slated to be done right around Christmas time.] Cousin Molly practically lived there too [even though her real bed is just one house down the street].
This trip home consisted of thanksgiving deliciousness, movie nights and shopping with sister Emma and cousin Molly, Target runs with Mom, a girl’s night out with high school friends, and family visits. Oh, and I helped Grandpa Sid cut his pills in half. He asked when Emma and I stopped by for a visit. And he handed me a pliers to do the job. All in all, a pretty great and exhausting time.
It’s also a year to be thankful for technology. My annual Thanksgiving Day Bake-Off cousin, Connor, is currently studying abroad in Ghana. No plate of mashed potatoes with his name on it. No bake-off this year. [Rescheduled for Christmas.] But we got to skype with him! How crazy is it that you can see and talk to someone across the world in real time? Technology is great. [Know who else loves technology? Kip. From Napoleon Dynamite.]
This trip home was good. And one thing that makes coming back to Austin not quite as hard is checking the mail after I’ve been gone for a few days. I love mail. I subscribe to a lot of magazines just so I have something in my mailbox. I’m just waiting for the Christmas card season to start! I got a surprise this time around – two, actually. One – a card from my friend Amanda with a gnome magnet inside! Two – an anonymous letter with a magazine clipping inside about how women shouldn’t be pastors. Yay! I love mail … most of the time. Welcome back, Pastor Lindsay.
there's no place like gnome. 
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