thanksgiving

I wasn't sure how this thanksgiving was going to be. It was the first year in 5 thanksgivings that I wouldn't be with to dear families which became our family. Inviting us into their home the first year we lived in Germany, and adopting us and including us in their traditions.

These traditions also became ours and as the holidays approached I started to feel hollow and sad. But then I realized that it was okay. It's okay to feel this way, I've felt this way before, and probably will again. New cultures and new traditions take time to adjust to, they aren't bad, just new, and I won't lose the old traditions, they are still part of me.