The Mock Dock

This started out as a really crappy day.  My sweet, precious grandpa on my mom’s side passed away early this morning.  While I’ve only seen him a handful of times in my whole life (he’d always lived in Poland), he was still my mom’s dad, and I loved him.  And there’s nothing worse than seeing your mom suffer over the loss of a parent.  Especially a mom as cute and sweet and precious and full of love as my mom.  She and Bunny will be traveling to the funeral, and Mr. Mock will be taking Mini down to see his folks in ATL.  My dad and I will be staying in Indy, along with Junior Mock.  It’s going to be a very unusual and sort of lonely Thanksgiving.

So it was a happy diversion from the sadness of the day, to not only get my Robbie Williams CD in the mail at work today, but also to come home to the most delicious pair of shoes EVER.  I promised pictures, and I don’ t like to break promises, so here you go!

THE BOX.

The DUST BAGS.

THE FABULOUSNESS.

The modeling of the fabulousness.

And you guys, listen to the sweetness that is Mr. Mock.  Because I have to spend Thanksgiving without him and Mini, he announced today that he is going to prepare us an early turkey day dinner to have tomorrow night before they head out of town.  Is that the most adorable thing you’ve ever heard? 

Somehow, I just KNOW my grandpa is looking down on Mr. Mock and smiling at the fact that his granddaughter married so well.  ‘Tis the season to be thankful indeed!

Consider this your friendly reminder to lay off the candied yams.

You know what? This is my favorite favorite holiday.  Especially because everyone in my family knows better than to expect me to cook anything, which means that this holiday involves me getting fed by an awesome cook (whether it’s my own mom or mom-in-law), and sitting around with people I love just feeling thankful.  Seriously -what is better than that?

Hope you all are enjoying this day and remembering how much we all have to be thankful for.