Thanksgiving I Need a Kick start

Thanks Jill, sounds like you have a fun filled day enjoy your holidays......

Hey Melinda, I'm right there with ya on the not feeling the holidays this year.  I will be heading to New York to visit my family and try my best not to think of hubby in Iraq and how much I miss him.  I cooked him a big Thanksgiving before he left so October 5 was really my Turkey Day this year.  Hope things get better for ya...my prayers are with you. Christine 

Christine thanks for your kind words and prayers going out to you and your husband and all the other guys and girls over in Iraq and Happy Holidays to all.....

Things going on with us and those around us sure can bring us down. We are trying to make the best of it and go on with our traditional Thanksgiving at my Grannys house. She had a mild stroke a couple weeks ago and sought no medical help until last week from a regular dr. She refused seeing a specialist. We are going to make the best of it and all pitch in for all the cooking. I picked veggies cooked and raw for me to fix. We all love them and I can eat them so well. I am just thankful for the good days I have and keep prayin thru the ones that arent so good. Alot try to bring me down here lately but I just let them be where they are at in life. Everyone has their own problems and deals with them in their own time and own way. Praying along the way is the best I can offer right now. They dont need me to bring them down and I would never want to cause anyone else any extra problems or stress.  I hope you and the others here on the board get thru this. I am going to just be as thankful as I can for the positives right now. The negatives are there but dont need my attention today. One day at a time is all i have. The days with less pain make me so grateful and help me thru the days that arent as good.  Hugs, Shannon

Thanks Shannon and we all do have issues and dea in our own way some get carried away sometimes and im one at times that get over welmed and pile up and burst and I need to be on that show snapped sometimes lol I feel like a pot ready to explode. But I try very hard to be positive an keep the  negatives out but it pulls hard somedays and gets to me. Anyway Happy Holidays thanks for your post.

I love that show. Hate seeing what happens to some of the families but can personally see how it can get there sometimes. I tend to let things pile up til I blow. Try to say nothing til i can process it all in hopes of not saying something I will regret later. Doesnt always work but all i can do it try. I might end up on Snapped if i dont. I watch them on a I hate men day lol. Have to check to see when its on again. Being around my family that I love dearly takes alot of lip biting but they are the only ones I have so I do the best I can. Sure I can make them feel the same way at times. Good too just to get everyone together, especially with the elderly ones that arent in the best of health. Happy Holidays to you too. Shannon 

melinda I too am a bit down.  My son's father (my ex) is very ill so I elected not to be with my son and new daughter-in-law so they would feel free to be with his dad if they choose. Sooooo, I'm joining a former work colleague and his familiy in VA Beach for the day.  I get to bring the apple pies.  I thought it would be tough for me to sneak a piece without someone noticing it was gone so I thought I'd be safe having them in the house overnight!  LOL! Then I get 3 whole days to myself - no driving anywhere and no "hotel" guests to clean up for!  I'm going to try to get started with some inside painting and maybe get the 1st floor powder room and foyer done. I had the upstaris done last year before I moved in, but I have no schedule to meet so thought I'd do the 1st floor myself.  We'll see if I keep my ambition once I start all the trim work - UGH! Enjoy the world! Cleo

So far today I have scrubbed the entire house clean top to bottom including dusting, baked five batches of homemade cornbread, a pumpkin pie from scratch is currently  baking in the oven with its fabulous aromas pleasing my nose  (could it be a food 'gasm?), prepared the cranberry relish for Thursday, getting ready to pick up boys from bus stop then I have to prepare the hamburgers for dinner. 

Hello Melilnda,  I hope all of us on here can pull you up and out of the ho-drums..... Thanksgiving this year will be at my house. I am cooking for 12 with possibly 4 more stopping by. My mom and dad are coming in from WV and I cant wait to see them. I will be cooking a 20 pound turkey with all of the fixins. Home made everything. I cant get away with instant or canned anything as long as my mom is in the house. I will be starting my cooking Wed night after work. I will bake my pies, cook my cranberries, saute my onions and celery for my stuffing and I will probably get my bird ready to put into the oven on Thursday morning. My boys wanted us to have out tree up by Thanksgiving day, but with working, and cooking.... I just dont see how I can. If you are in the neighborhood, stop by the house for a cup of coffee and a piece of pie.... I would love to see you Take care sweety!!!!! cath