Helpful Hints and Recipes: A BELATED HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Friday, November 23, 2007

A BELATED HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Yep, they are almost all here and my life is hectic and I love it!! I was so sorry because 3 of my older grandchildren and their families couldn't make it and I really missed them. We had a great day yesterday and Chris joined in with all the craziness and merriment. She brought me a beautiful angel statue that has "Thankful For All Good Things" written on the front. She says it symbolizes that she will always be there if I need her. It was a good day. A house full of family including my mother who has alzheimers and my brother, Ricky, and his new wife, Annie. My brother, Andy, who lives in Phoenix sent us all a very nice picture text message greeting for everyone. Food, food, food everywhere!!! That was the case yesterday. Even with the amount of people we had here yesterday we still have a lot of food left!! I always says it's better to have too much than not enough. Bill fried 2 turkeys yesterday and I roasted 1. I know that we will be having turkey soup sometime in the next few weeks.

I don't do the Black Friday thing because I don't like the crowds. I did go to WalMart with my sister, Roxy, and her daughter and grandkids late morning because I had to pick up a prescription for Bill. It wasn't packed because a bigger WalMart opened about a month ago so the crowd evidently went there. Nothing much going on today. Tomorrow we go to the Chitlin' Strut.

My tip for today is to enjoy your family and friends and life every day that you can every minute that you can. We never know what the next hour brings. Believe me I am enjoying every moment I can.

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Chris and I became friends over 20 years ago when we were neighbors in the Philippines. We were living there with our families because of our husbands' jobs with Westinghouse. In fact, we were next door neighbors on the compound that we lived in. After returning Stateside, we were lucky enough to have Westinghouse assign our husbands to the same work site. Our husbands are good friends, also. We enjoy each other and feel fortunate to be blessed with such good, loving friends in our lives.

We cannot take credit for the helpful hints, tips or recipes that we put in. These are an accumulation of ones that we have collected over the years and still collect. We won't mind if someone needs a hint or recipe that we haven't posted yet and they want us to try to find it for them. In fact, we would like the challenge!

Chris and I have always loved to collect cookbooks, recipes and hints. You would not believe the number of books and newspaper and magazine clippings that we have. Plus, Dennis, Chris's husband, loves to cook and has some to add to the mix. I know there are those of you out there that have the same sort of collection. I was getting ready to get rid of some unneeded things I have around here and get ready for my huge annual Thanksgiving event. I thought I would share this with "the world" and Chris feels the same way. (Her and I are so much alike, it's scarey sometimes. To our husbands, that is!) Plus both of us are Taurus! Chris might even have some decorating tips for you because she is great at that. That is something that just doesn't come to me and I turn to her.

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