Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving marks the anniversary of my blog. 4 years. It's hard to believe that 4 years I started blogging. It's also interesting to see what has transpired the last 4 years. I moved states, jobs, lost a dog, gained a baby....and those are just the biggies. Thanksgiving also marks the family holiday that CityCrab and I host. Between us we've got a sizeable family. Now, I know you're thinking dining room table with the card table annex at the end. No, I am talking multiple tables in multiple rooms. Usually we host about 30. This year, however, we hosted a measly 18 people. That's nothing for us. It was amazingly stress-free. Of course, we have amazing help (domestic and otherwise) who we could not do it without and it all came together quite nicely. CityCrab's turkey was outstanding. Moist, flavorful - it did not disappoint. And, best of all we got the chance to spend it with friends and family.

Pop-Up Book Club

So, this title is probably a little misleading now that I look at it. It makes it seem as though I am in a bookclub that reads pop-up books. Now, wouldn't that be fun....for my toddler and all his friends. But I am actually not in a book club at all. The Pop-up is a recent phenomenon that has hit the retail scene. Stores open up small outlets of their larger stores for limited times. It is mostly happening in larger cities. I believe Target may have started this...does anyone remember the Target boat in the Hudson River in early 2000? I believe this concept could catch on with book clubs. This occurred to me last night. We met 3 other couples for dinner. These are some of our oldest & dearest friends. CityCrab has known the husbands practically since he was born. And the significant others all get along. We all lead very busy lives and we don't get a chance to see each other often and catch up. Well, for whatever reason we all started talking about what we're reading. And, voila, the pop-club book club was born. We all read the same books and we started to discuss them. Then the talk wandered to The Kindle and whether to Kindle or not. Then we started sharing titles of great reads. It's the perfect kind of book club. No pressure to finish a book you don't like, no pressure to host people in your houme or arrange daycare to attend. You just pop-up your title, throw it out there and discuss.