OT: Happy Thanksgiving

There's always something to be thankful for even in the midst of pain. I've been feeling really crumby for the last three days, on a zpack treatment to get rid of this nast bug. Still cooking though, and have made a lot of deviled eggs, some Death by Chocolate, got my turkey baking, green beans ready to go in, stuffing ready to go in, taters cooking, and gravy yet to contend with (want that juice outta my turkey). I awoke this morning with the most godawful back pain, hurts to turn, or walk, and have no idea why. I don't remember doing anything to stress it . My daughter jumps outta bed (the 4yr old) when I was having difficulty even getting up, runs to the other end of the house and brings me back a rx bottle and says "here Mommy, take this it will make your back all better"..................... She brought me my allegra. I'm thankful for the compassion I've managed to instill in my little one at such a young age, and that she wants to make ME feel better. A hug and a kiss to boot. Who could ask for more?

Headed to my Granny's around noon. We're expecting I think thirteen was the last count. But there's usually more that show up. Granny's done a big pot of collards, two chocolate cakes, three sweet potato pies, and she's frying a turkey. She also get to make the bisquits. No meal is complete without 'em. If anybody leaves hungry, it's their own fault. I'm thankful that we all have the freedom and liberty to gather in one place in peace and share with one another. Some don't have that. I can drive from here to there and not worry about getting bombed, or shot. So let us remember today our families far away, and say an extra prayer for them as well. I'm grateful that every now and then I get an email from my brother and know that he's still ok. I hope that all of yours and yours are too. I love you guys. Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my RCS friends! Hmmm...I'm thankful for a lot of things today, even though I'm feeling yucky & admitting that I may have to go to the doctor on Monday.

I'm thankful for two wonderful, loving, healthy kiddos, who are full of energy. I'm thankful for a smart 6 yr old DD who is able to read my message as I type. I'm thankful for a wonderful hubby who is doing dishes for me. I'm thankful that I don't have to do a ton of cooking today! (Thank you MIL!) I'm thankful that DH & I have our finances under control. We may not live on the ritzy side of town, but we're able to pay all our bills on time and still have some money left over. I'm thankful that I do have freedom to voice my opinions without fear of the government and the freedom to worship how I choose.

I'm thankful for a lot of things, but I'm very very very VERY thankful for my friends. And I'm extremely thankful for finding this little piece of the 'net univserse and having the chance to meet others who share the joy of scrapbooking with me.

Happy Thanksgiving to you too and everyone else on the group :) I'm grateful for my family and friends and good health. I'm sure there are plenty more to be grateful for as well.. Especially my DH and little girl :)

I ,too, am thankful for this nice family of friends. I was so glad to be with my DD and her husband to be and share her first ever cooked Thanksgiving meal.Thankful that I heard from all of my far away kids and felt their love through the wires. Thankful that my DH is still with me and is in good health ,that I have a warm home and food and that we live in a democracy.....So many things to thankful for.

Hugs, Sabrina in Kentucky

a good friend is a life long treasure

I did take the time to remember why I'm thankful yesterday.

Aside from my family's health great friends I have the good fortune to have a job where I can help other people. Like the homeless man who claim to have taken approx. 20 each of 4 different types of drugs when we all knew he didn't, we knew he just wanted a bed and a warm meal.

I'm thankful I could help put out the fire at someone's house because the men having ingested far too much alcholol decided to see if they could cook a turkey in the oven on the "CLEAN" setting. Let me tell you this is not a good idea, it will cause your kitchen at least to burn up.

Or the nice police officer who shut down a hwy for 4 hours because he was in such a hurry to go see what one of his co-workers was doing (writing a ticket for a busted tail light) he decided to drive between (we guesstamate)

100-120 mph taking out a light pole, totaling his patrol car and this being the final straw no doubt loosing his job. I am thankful for my co-workers who will find stuff for us to amuse ourselves while we're waiting for the power crews and the tow trucks to clear the road so we can go back to the station. I discovered at 12:30am that you CAN place an XL rubber glove over your head, down to your ears and blow it up with your nose! Careful when you do it that you don't wet your pants from laughing!

LMAO! Oh Kenda, I love that visual...the blowing up the glove with your nose!! All I ever did was make glove baloons for the kids and paint faces on them with thumb being the nose and the fingers,spiky hair!

Hugs, Sabrina in Kentucky

a good friend is a life long treasure

Glad you liked the visual....It's amazing what you will do to amuse yourself when you've been up 20 hrs straight and you are board out of your mind! LOL Keep in mind we did this in the fire truck! (shhhhhhhh, ssssshhhhh, don't tell the Chief!) We did keep an eye out to make sure we didn't do it when people were around. Just dont' think they'd have understood!

I guess you were working with a good crew that night. Glad to hear it. I was thinking about you!

Oh Kenda you're so funny. I love that you still love to have fun!

BTW we had an oven go from bake to clean while a roast was in the oven. I don't know what my mom was doing. She was roasting it while at work. When my brother got home from school (he was about 14). The house was enveloped in smoke. He crawled in tripped the circuit breakers and when I got home we opened all the windows and doors to air the place out. I can't for the life of me figure out how he knew to do that. I wouldn't have gone in. But it save the house and nothing caught on fire. The kitchen stove area was majorly scorched, but my dad being a construction guy fixed it all up. We teased my mom for a while, because she didn't like the wall paper that came with the kitchen when they bought the house. That she could have gotten rid of the wall paper a little easier. Everything I mean everything in the house from about 4 feet up was covered with a light coating of grease.

Yes, I had a good crew. Same guys that I've been working with since my regular crew went on vacation. I will get to work with both these guys until the regulars get back. It's nice the Battalion Chief is letting them stay instead of moving different ones in.

Good thing your bother knew what to do! At least he saved the house and your Mom got new wall paper! Sounds like she knew what she was doing by "cleaning" the roast! LOL too funny....Amazing how oily smoke is huh?

ROFL Oh Kenda, I would have paid to see that glove being blown up! Glad you work with people as nutty as you. I would hate for you to feel abnormal. LOL

But at least you could talk straight!! Friday night I was talking to DH's

18 yr old cousin and asked him if he had seen the Toyota commercial where the pretty girl is all teary-eyed about pick-up truck beds. (Hope you've seen it, it's kinda funny and nothing else I say will make sense if you haven't.) Anyways, I tried to do her line at the end of the commercial where she says "For less than 3 soy mocha lattes a day...." It didn't come out that way! Instead I said "For less than 3 soy loca mattes a day..." I don't know what a "loca matte" is, but it sounds interesting!