I've already had 2 Thanksgivings, and have 2 to go!
Last weekend my Mom, oldest brother, his wife, and about half of his family came to our house for an early Stuart family Thanksgiving. They came Saturday in time for a big dinner with all the fixin's. We ate, watched football, played dominoes, and then everyone spent the night! We had people sleeping everywhere. It was so much fun. They all went to church with us the next day, filling up a pew, and I was so proud of them. One of my choir friends said my nephew Jason looks like me. :)
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Tuesday night at BCM our church provided a turkey dinner for our college students, and then we had a share time, when students were invited to tell how God has been working in their lives as well as words of good-bye to the 2 graduating in December. I get teary-eyed every time, especially when the students leaving us are ones we've known since they were freshmen. Hard to believe we've been here that long!
Tomorrow night is our church Thanksgiving meal, another time I always enjoy. This year our missionary speaker is J.P. Manley, whom we worked with in Slovenia. He and the four girls who went with me came over tonight for brisket and catching up, and tomorrow night he'll speak and Mikayla and Rebecca will sing with the children's choir. And I'll take dill green beans and potato salad and be thankful.
Then of course this week is the official Thanksgiving Day. We are spending it in Texas with Mike's family, and all they asked of us was Mike's chicken and dumplings, so it'll be like a day off for me! I will miss 2 of my nieces who have grown up and moved away, but it will be good to see everyone else. What are your plans?
2 comments:
I've never done a Thanksgiving meal. Don't even know where to begin. With the Turkey, I guess. Get one of those turkey bags to save my scrawny neck!!! I have no clue how to make the gravy from the meat. I don't know how any of that works! I never make anything for Thanksgiving. Occasionally, I buy a Cyrus O'Leary pie and bring it :) We had a Thanksgiving dinner at Josh's moms house on Saturday and are not going to see my family. We might be going to our church for dinner on Thanksgiving Day, but I don't know. I'm not sure it would hurt my feelings too much to not do a Thanksgiving meal on Thanksgiving Day this year! Maybe I'll attempt to cook a small turkey and do some Stove Top stuffing or something for just our little family on that day! I certainly can't do much more than that by myself, especially with my lack of cooking skills!
Shellie, we started cooking our own when we lived 2,000 miles from family! Mike smokes the turkey and I buy gravy in a bottle, so the only hard thing I have to do is the dressing.
And I miss Cyrus O'Leary Marionberry pies!!
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