Yes, I know I'm late posting this and I know it isn't Halloween anymore and it's about time I changed the theme on this journal so here's nothing for ya LOL. Sorry but so much going on with my family I haven't had my heart in it.
Anyway, Thanksgiving was, well, not too terrible I guess. I was really missing my older daughter who is away in rehab. This is day 10 out of 60. I'm really proud of her for doing this, especially at this time of year. We thought this was going to be a 28 day program that could go to 60 if needed, and then found out later that it was a 60 day +. We thought she'd be home for Christmas but she won't, so that is hard, but we have to think in terms of the long run knowing if she completes this and is successful she will have many more holidays together with us. I told her we will have Christmas waiting for her whatever date she comes home, and I will cook her lasagna and a green bean casserole and whatever else she wants.
We spent Thanksgiving at my brother and sister-in-law's house. It's an awkward meal for me, being a vegetarian. I was hoping my sis-in-law would make her great version of the green bean casserole, but instead I got very bland broccoli and cauliflower. So I had that and a half a sweet potato, plain. There wasn't any sour cream or brown sugar or salt or anything. I was glad they had cheese and crackers and apples and veggies and dip before dinner... lol. I was grateful at least that the turkey had been already sliced and I didn't have to suffer looking at a carcass throughout the meal... I dunno if I could have stomached that for long. Dessert was pretty good, lots of pie - two kinds of apple, two pumpkin and a pecan. No whipped cream, darn it. Oh well.
I was a lay reader at church yesterday, which I really enjoyed. The kids are starting to rehearse for their Christmas Pageant and I'm really excited because this year my little girl will get to be an angel!! Every couple of years they change which play they do and they have done this one before, where all the little ones are angels. I thought she would have been one last year, but they did a different play and I was so disappointed. So I'm really happy they switched back this year. I remember when I used to teach that preschool Sunday School class to my older daughter who is 16 now, and she was an angel... boy does time fly. I will have to videotape this pageant so that my older daughter can view it when she gets home. I don't want her to miss anything. My son is also rehearsing with the Junior Choir, they are going to be performing at the Christmas Eve service. They sang at the Thanksgiving Eve service and it was a real treat. We also went to an Interfaith service that included about 15 churches, that was the Sunday before Thanksgiving. We go to that every year and always enjoy the music and the messages.
I haven't done a lick of shopping yet. I don't do the 'Black Friday' thing because I can't handle crowds without a panic attack. It also bugs me when I see folks decorating for Christmas before Thanksgiving. Lots of people take down their Halloween decorations and just throw up the Christmas lights at the same time, forgetting to be thankful in between, forgetting they have a REASON to be thankful. It really makes me sad and disheartened. It's bad enough that the stores are doing it, they have a reason to be so commercial, it's their bottom line, not that morally they should be that obnoxious with their early displays, but enough people buy from them so they can keep doing it.
I hope in all your hustle and bustle, your harried running to find the perfect gifts for the cherished people in your life, that you will remember the real reason for the season, and take a moment to say a prayer of thanks.
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