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Happy Thanksgiving! All that I am Thankful for…

Written on November 26, 2009 by Michele in Michele

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Happy Thanksgiving to all my family and friends. I am thankful for so much today.

I have a wonderful husband, Jason who supports everything I do

I have 4 beautiful and healthy children

I have an extended family that we can count on at any time and supports all that we do

I have a wonderful community of friends IRL

I have food on my table, a roof over my head, clothes on our bodies and all the gadgets we could ever want or need

I am particularly thankful this year for my friends who are with me almost all the time (or at least it feels that way because they are just a Skype chat away). There wasn’t a way for me to add all 8 of us in one jibjab movie, so I did 2 movies and mashed them together.

Happy Thanksgiving to Jen, Cheryl, Fiona, Kelly, Karrie, Jen B & Carissa!

Danielle Smith of Extraordinary Mommy, has another fabulous video that she put together. Go over to her and check it out.

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EA Sports Active More Workouts Update

Written on November 25, 2009 by Michele in EA Sports, Vlogging

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I haven’t done a formal update since I started the 6 week challenge on November 20th. In case you didn’t know, I am part of the EA Sports Active More Workouts 6 Week Challenge. There are 12 Challengers and we started on November 20th and will finish on December 31st.

You can check out my 411 at the EA Sports Active website and the article I wrote for cafemom about how EA Sports Active helped my family learn to be healthier.

I am much better at showing you how excited I am about this, so here was the first vlog I did on Day 1:

I wasn’t going to do a second video right away, but I was so excited, so I did this one:

Yes, I really did that!!! So, unlike me. Day 3 was a killer. It was a lot of arms and an abs workout where you raise both of your legs up in the air. I am still sore today and today was my day of rest. I know that this challenge is really working because I wake up sore every morning so I’m working muscles that I haven’t worked in a long time. It’s a really good hurt.

For Thanksgiving I am all prepared to do my workouts all week and I plan to do an extra workout on Thursday before dinner. I do plan to eat my dinner and have dessert and I’m not going to worry about the calories or fat. I will do an extra workout and probably run twice this weekend.

Tags: 6 week challenge, EA Sports Active, More Workouts, Thanksgiving, Vlogging

Thanksgiving Traditions of a Geeky Family & Anniversary

Written on November 22, 2009 by Michele in Family, Geek Stuff

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Every year Thanksgiving seems to get earlier and earlier in the year, doesn’t it? It seems like it was just Fourth of July. But anyways, enough with that. The only tradition we can count on is that Thanksgiving is different for us every year and will involve lots of gadgets for our geeky family. Since both sides of our family live about 3-4 hours from us, we are either having company or we are traveling.

If we travel, we always try to leave on Wednesday morning, right after work day rush hour and before Noon rush to get out of town. Very precise timing involved which means checking traffic often on my iPhone. Some years we make it and it takes us 3 hours to get to our destination and sometimes we have #iphonefail and it takes us 8 hours (seriously) to go 3 hours.

Thursday mornings are devoted to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade viewed on an HD TV only. We turn it on and sit around and chat skype, eat appetizer type of foods, surf the web while the kids play video games and drive us nuts. Oh and there is usually some cooking going on that involves those large objects in the kitchen that people who cook use. Jason will head to McDonald’s for breakfast if there is one open, otherwise, it’s cereal.

We shoot for eating around 4:00 pm. We do get off our gadgets long enough to eat and enjoy the company. We typically have turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, corn, green bean casserole, rolls and apple pie for dessert. (no gadgets involved, boring, huh?)

Do you call it stuffing or dressing? We say stuffing.

After dinner we usually get comfy, watch a movie and doze off early.

Friday morning Jason will head out to Best Buy for the hot gadget we need want. Black Friday is a geek’s dream event. It’s like a gadget white sale event. I will check prices online while he stands in line. We end up with a few items for the kids for Xmas (and something for us too).

We got married on November 26 (after meeting on AOL, told you we were a geeky family,) which was the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 1994. We try to get away for a dinner without kids, but not without gadgets, over the holiday weekend. This year will be married for 15 years and our Anniversary falls right on Thanksgiving. I think we will try to go out for dinner on Saturday night and then do some shopping.

Our plans vary, but we are always together with family and thankful for all we have. I enjoy hanging out at my parent’s house or my in-laws and spending time with family. I hope that our times together as a family will be what my kids remember.

Now, head on over to my good friend Hanging With Mrs. Cooper’s blog and tell us about your Thanksgiving traditions. She’s giving away a gorgeous Path2 Peace basket and you could win a basket with your Thanksgiving tradition story. I’m sure that basket would be a fantastic place for me to hide all my gadgets and cords.