Category Archives: Thanksgiving

So Far From Want

family, holidays, Thanksgiving

Who can resist the stuffing and the bird, piled high on the plate, with too many sides to count?  The whipped cream, the pie–can I have cherry and apple?–with a little ala mode for good measure?

In an article he wrote way back in 2007, Mitch Albom quoted Edward Winslow, who described the joy of the first Thanksgiving, in part, by explaining that they were “so far from want.”

So far from want.

Isn’t that us?

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.  I hope your plates, and your hearts, are full and very far from want.


photo credit: rfduck

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The Turkeys Who Got Away

Thanksgiving
They were bold, these guys.  On the morning before Thanksgiving, two big flocks came strolling through our backyard.
They pranced.

They played.
They strutted their stuff.

They came back on Thanksgiving morning, as if to say, “Ha, we’re still here.”
But I haven’t seen them since.
Hope you had a good turkey day!
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What? Thanksgiving is THIS Week?

life, Thanksgiving, vacation

Here’s what I’ve been doing:

  • frantically putting pages into the family scrapbook from last February, so I don’t hit the “year behind” mark in a couple of months
  • shopping for other families for Christmas
  • taking my kids to swim lessons
  • taking my kids to piano lessons
  • sending my kids outside to play in the snow because they are much to crazy to be inside
Here’s what I haven’t been doing:
  • planning the Thanksgiving meal I’ll be making beginning tomorrow
  • washing the sheets for my visitors’ beds (yep, arriving tomorrow)
  • cleaning the house
  • cleaning the car
  • shopping for my own family for Christmas
  • blogging
I’m having nervous withdrawal twitches from being mostly offline for a couple of days.  When your kids have an entire week off for Thanksgiving, it can throw you for a loop, let me tell ya.
Still, I know my mom will want clean sheets.  Better get busy.  Hope she’ll be thankful.
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