What's next...Christmas?!?

With Thanksgiving over, Christmas is right around the corner! My neighbors have already hung their Christmas lights, radio stations are already playing Christmas music and retail stores have already stocked all of their shelves with Christmas decorations. This got me thinking about what the Christmas season has really turned into? It seems as though the retail industry has turned Christmas into purchasing the best gifts and the newest products. I am almost disgusted when I see people standing outside department stores on Black Friday waiting to plow each other over when the doors open, meanwhile they could be spending their time at home with their families whom they probably only get to see on the holidays.

My Facebook updates are full of what everyone got on Cyber Monday! As per my previous post, to me the holidays are not about receiving, I look forward more to spending time with my family! For the past couple of years instead of giving gifts we have gone on a cruise together. I think that is what everyone should do! Because at the end of the day, the Coach purse or Marc Jacobs sunglasses will go out of style but your family will not!

Thanksgiving Eve!

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and I could not be happier to go home to great food and awesome family! As I get older, I look forward to spending time with my family so much more than I did when I was younger. Now I understand why my parents like it so much! I truly enjoy reminiscing about childhood memories and learning new things about my family. I should also learn how to cook more things so I am looking forward to actually partaking in the cooking this year! It's so weird though how our values change as we grow older. I thought my parents were so corny when they would say things like that but I now realize how true it is. I used to look forward to Christmas time as a kid to get so many presents, but what kid doesn't? And now, I look forward to Christmas more just to see my family that comes in from out of town and to spend time with my parents whom I don't get to see that often anymore.

Whatever your plans may be for Thanksgiving, it's spending time with family or just taking some time off to relax, I hope everyone has a very safe and happy holiday! :) 

One Week 'Til Thanksgiving!

Christmas music already plays through our radios, department stores are already stocked with Christmas decorations and the lights are already strung across people's landscaping, yet we have not even had our Thanksgiving! Is it just me or does this holiday season seem to be rushed? I, of course was late getting my Halloween candy, and ran to Target to get some for our little trick-or-treaters. I was so shocked to see all of the Christmas decorations that were on sale already! Maybe I have been oblivious in previous years but this year it seems to me that everyone was all of a sudden in a rush for Christmas to come, yet Thanksgiving is still a week away! I am interested in the general consensus, does everyone else feel this way also? Don't feel guilty because I can't say though that I have been completely innocent in this process, we already have our tree decorated at the MoveThatBlock office! 

The Month of Thanks!

As I was scrolling through my newsfeed this morning while I was still trying to shake off my sleepiness, I noticed a bunch of my friends status updates that were saying things they were thankful for. I soon realized we are already a week into November, which is supposed to be the month of giving thanks. I was trying to rack my brain about what I was thankful for over the last seven days. There were very few things that came to mind at 7am this morning as my alarm was going off after only getting four hours of sleep. Getting into an ice cold shower wasn't much help either. But as I was sitting in my office this morning reading some news articles in a newspaper from my hometown, it hit me how thankful I should be! There was an article about a young boy who had dove into a lake and had hit his neck making him paralyzed from the neck down! He would never be able to use his legs again. Here I am complaining about a cold shower! I wonder how many activities on a daily basis that we all take for granted until one day we are not able to do them anymore? I can't imagine how different my daily routine would be without the use of my legs! So today I am thankful for having the ability to run! What is it that you are thankful for today?!?