Good morning! It's a cold Saturday here in Roanoke and I'm sitting in the kitchen with my coffee while my mom cooks up some sausage and pancakes for everyone. Rob, my brother, my dad, and my cousin Brendan are all still asleep and I just love the feeling of being awake in the quiet morning of a full house! The fire is going and Rocky is lounging. This is the life!

I'm sharing several phone photos with you this morning--here's the last bit of November as told by Instagram:

1. Finally got to try Ginger Woodchuck--it was so good and it even matched my outfit!

2. Tailgating at Hampden-Sydney. More Woodchuck!

3. Took an autumnal walk around a pond with Rob.

4. Together in New York.

5. Van Cortlandt Park.

6. Finished The Paris Wife 

(and I'm still not sure if I feel worse for Hadley or Hemingway).

7. Sean roasted some venison for us. My first deer meat experience.

8. Casual Friday on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

9. Shooting with film for the first time! I'm anxious to get it developed.

10. Thanksgiving dinner.

11. Black Friday WOD at RVCF. Tim is such a great coach.

12. Paleo banana bread just how I like it--with a ton of grassfed butter on top.

What have you been up to lately? Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Life Lately According to Instagram is a semi-weekly feature in which I showcase a few of my favorite Instagram shots. You can follow along with me in real-time if you'd like--just search for username @megan_flynn.

Happy Thanksgiving! I love this holiday so much; I think it might even be my favorite.

My best friend Patrick comes home with his fiance, Chad, and Rob comes home, and my cousin Brendan comes to visit, and Sean is always already home for break (oh, college!). We eat all weekend long and we make delicious cocktails and in the morning we run the Thanksgiving 5K downtown before heading back home to do more eating and cocktail drinking.

Anyway, I wrote a piece about Thanksgiving for The Equals Record and I hope you might read it right here.

What are some of your Thanksgiving traditions?

On this Monday morning of Thanksgiving week, in which I am extra sleepy from getting home too late from New York last night and falling, exhausted, into bed without so much as editing a photo, I thought I would make a list of things which make me feel grateful.

+ a weekend away, short as it may have felt

+ time, lately, that I've found to sit down and read

+ a three day work week starting today

+ a fire going in the fireplace every morning as I drink my tea

+ Sean coming home (for the week!) tomorrow

+ plans for a movie date on Wednesday with my dear friend Claire
+ chapstick on my poor lips

+ a little blog re-design on Freckled Italian scheduled for this week 

+ a Thanksgiving at home with my family

For what are you thankful?