November 25 is one month before Christmas, is sometimes Thanksgiving day and is always Thanksgiving week, at least, and is a memorable day for us - the anniversary of The Flood and Jerod's birthday!
Way back in 2011, we had a week to remember. We had recently returned from vacation, and I returned with cases of both malaria and dengue fever. Just in case one mosquito-borne illness wasn't enough, I picked up two. I've never been so exhausted in my life! I missed an entire week of work because I was lying on my couch either asleep or acutely miserable most of that time.
Our amazing friend Holly was living next door to us at the time, and I remember one day she came over for dinner. I had mustered the energy to attempt to cook, but halfway through I told her, "I think I need to sit down." I guess I looked like I was going to fall over right then and there, because she ran and got me a chair and made the rest of the meal herself while I sat there. I don't think I managed to eat anything.
Thursday of that week was Thanksgiving, and I left the house for the first time that evening, and ate my first food of the week at Thanksgiving dinner. And then on November 25, we awoke to rain on Friday morning, and then THIS is what happened: http://www.amsandeen.blogspot.com/2011_11_01_archive.html
To keep things exciting, that very night we had visitors from America arrive for a visit, too! Just in case being doubly sick, a flooded house, and a big holiday weren't enough, how about two guests coming? Of course the runway in town was flooded, too, so they had to fly into a city several hours away and we didn't know how or when they'd actually be arriving in town, and they had no way to contact us...
On November 25, 2014, we had another "visitor" arrive - Jerod! He wasn't due until mid-December, but he wanted to arrive early, and I certainly wasn't opposed to the idea. Because he was born on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, we skipped last year's celebration. It seemed a bit much to try to put on a big dinner on our first day home from the hospital. We were certainly very thankful for our healthy little boy, though. We were also very thankful for a house that wasn't flooded, and not being sick with malaria or dengue fever!
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