This year the Burbank/SanDiego-Semsen family did something really different for Thanksgiving: we stayed home.

Many apologies to the many family and friends we could be hanging out with today, but with the amount of driving we do on a regular basis, and the extended travel we've done lately, combined with the fact that we'll be driving back to and fro San Diego many a time this Christmas season for shows and Christmas Eve services and the like...we decided that this family needed a day of rest and peace in our little Burbank home. 

And it has been AWESOME. 

The kids have been puttering around, playing with each other ever so sweetly.  Christy made her first Thanksgiving turkey (along with all the side dishes, many of them Gluten-Free-Casein-Free)...and I've probably had more quality time with my boys so far in this one day than I had in the past WEEK.  It's been great.


There are times in life when the best thing in the world is to spend a day with your friends and family, and there are certain times when you just need to take a day off with your loved ones.   And if any one of the 9 people that read this know me well, you know that I'm an extrovert and LOVE to be with people--and every other Thanksgiving and Christmas, don't worry, we'll hang.  Just not this year. 


PS--I got a little choked up today during our Thanksgiving meal prayer.   We REALLY DO have SO MUCH to be thankful for...and I hope I don't too soon forget that.


HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

James 1:17 (NASB)
Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

Quite possibly my favorite blog post from anyone, anywhere, TO DATE.


MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!

SO BUSTED!

Two things I'm nerding out on this week:

That new show V


Tuesday nights on ABC...it's killing Flash Forward (which I've stopped watching due to BORINGNESS)



And the best new Wii game out there



If you want to test the ability for your family to be kind and loving towards each other in the midst of heated situations, then you should play this game. 
All 4 players are on the screen at once, and can knock each other around (and off into pits and chasms), can carry each other, or just plain accidentally kill the other person.
It's MADNESS.
But also a lot of fun. 


I bet if I put Twilight New Moon tags on this post I'll get a lot of hits, what do you think?