This morning as I lay in bed, I listened to J, who was changing Nora’s diaper in her room and singing a jaunty song he’d made up on the spot about “explosive poop in your pants,” and I smiled and thought about how many things I am thankful for this year.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, near and far.

I don’t ask that much of you.

Ok, sometimes I ask things of you. Whatever. Point is, nothing is as important as this. I mean, fine, stuff is important. Like your family and your job and everything.

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“Look at the sky! God, it’s beautiful out.”

“I love it here.”

“Look at the seagulls! So bright white against the setting sun!”

“Pooping. Pooping all over our pier.”

A new president. A real change. Instead of going on and on in some hyped-up, emotional manner about how happy I am following the results of last night’s election - unnecessary when so many others are doing so much more eloquently than I ever could - I’d thought I’d post some pictures of Nora, who was in a great mood this morning. We all were.

And one brief note: I’ll be taking a small vacation from the blog for about a week and a half. We’re headed down to spend time with my family and friends and I figured I’d shelf the computer for a while, especially now that there’s no need to check the latest political polls every other second.