Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!

Meandering thoughts here:

Thanksgiving for me arrives on the Sunday following the Macy's parade---when all the visitors leave. Namely, my college age children, their friends who are also college age children along with their other friends who happen to be US Marines home on leave who bring along yet other friends who were unable (or unwilling) to make it to their own homes.

These 17-22 year olds are like locusts. They swarm in the night before Thanksgiving, consume, consume, consume all of the household resources (food, electricity, computer bandwidth, furniture, floor space, wall space, closet space, bathrooms, TOILET PAPER, coffee, milk, MY beer, the driveway, the telephone, the QUIET (hmm, consuming the quiet--there's something there)), disrupt everything by their sheer volume and presence, and leave behind a ragged domicile when they all head back to points beyond---usually on the Sunday following the Macy's parade.

I'm thankful when they all leave.

But more than anything, I'm thankful they all made it home healthy, happy and alive. I wonder how long it will be before I miss these years? I remember when I was a human locust too!