Hosting Thanksgiving dinner seems like such a grownup thing to do. I’m not there, and I might never be. It surprises me every time I talk to a friend who is planning the big marathon cooking event. Seems like too much work for me.

Growing up, my mom worked at a hospital, which meant she was either off Thanksgiving or Christmas. Not both. So one or the other, we put off the meal by a few days until she was off. It wasn’t a major holiday for us, as we lived several hours away from our family.

To this day, Thanksgiving is my least favorite holiday. Don’t tell my mother-in-law. She lives for making a feast for 100 of her closest relatives. The food’s amazing, but I don’t think I have it in me to carry on the tradition.

When we haven’t visited family, we’ve gone the non-traditional route. Like last year, when we spent the holiday in San Francisco. I gladly traded in turkey and dressing for sushi and cream puffs. We are, you could say, not your traditional family. In more ways than one.

As I get older, I cling to traditions that I once eschewed (look that one up). But I’ve tried to imagine cooking a turkey for grown up Max, and I just can’t see it. But I’ll certainly take him out for sushi to celebrate!

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I’ve been running Egg for five years now. It’s been a rollercoaster ride. Most of that time, I’ve done all the work: writing, looking for new clients, marketing and admin. Slowly I’ve been able to bring on a few freelance writers to help me.

A few months ago, we got a new client. Work for them has steadily increased, to the point that I’m working toward having 4 writers do the work. Four! That’s the most I’ve ever had.

And I took a very big step recently. I’ve handed over the complete administration to one of my writers. It’s a huge step in trust, to know that she can handle the client and won’t make my company look bad. It’s a huge step for a control freak to remove myself from the equation completely.

I feel amazing.

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted, and I feel like this is a good step toward more growth. Once I see that I’m not needed in every project we take on, we can do a lot more.

It frees me up to work on the projects I love doing, and it gives my writers more responsibility (and money).

Life is good.

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If you blog, you can probably relate. Sometimes I feel like I need to come here and write something, and so sometimes it feels forced. I have no agenda with this blog; it’s more my personal journal, with some things edited out.

But when I was at BlogWorld last week, I started thinking about all my blogs (yes, all bajillion of them) and what I wanted to get out of them.

I’m going to be more forgiving when I don’t have time (or anything) to write. I’m going to focus on stories more. My opinions. Yes, Maxisms, of course. I’m going to stop worrying about keeping all 5 of my readers entertained. I’m taking it back to why I started this blog: it’s for me.

So if you enjoy my posts, thank you. I’m not trying for SEO or traffic or monetization. It’s just a sounding board for me to get away from the marketing and entrepreneur side of my life, and to talk about myself.

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