This Thanksgiving was full of emotion.  It started off with the feeling overwhelmed.  We had family coming in from out of town.  It was nice to see them. It is hard for me to hear some or the things said. I have two things that seem to always get me.  When one of my kids is singled out. The second is when people talk about all the fun they have shopping with there other kids.  Even when it is there Bio kids.  I have never been in a place I can go out shopping for anything and hang with my mom. Joshua and I have not had the funds to do that or not lived close enough to do that.  As long as I have remembered I shopped by myself. Now it is my husband taking one for the team.  I even went looking for a wedding dress the first time alone.  I wish that My mom was not over an hour away.  That or traveling with MapsRV. This weekend was hard to hear about all the shopping my mother in law does with my husbands sister.