A White Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, praying you have a blessed day.
The kids are headed out to play in the snow after watching their first Christmas movie of the season–VeggieTales – The Toy That Saved Christmas
Hubby put a rule in place the first year of our marriage–no Christmas ANYTHING til the day after Thanksgiving–partly because the stores full of Christmas stuff at Halloween drove him nuts and partly to keep me home the day after Thanksgiving. 🙂 Later it became a wonderful salvation as the kids longed to play ALL our Christmas movies at once and get heartily sick of them well before Christmas. This way they only get one a week until Christmas and can look forward to them.
Now the rule has relaxed and I start decorating after Thanksgiving dinner/lunch on Thanksgiving day. I have no urge to go out on Friday and brave the insanity, in fact I am done Christmas shopping. Now I force myself to decorate where I used to beg to be able to put the tree up sooner than a week before Christmas, which was Shamus’ original plan. Life is not as sweet and simple as it was back then.
I get all mopey at the holidays, longing to just skip them all together and decorating gets me over the hump. Our dinner is prepared–I get it all ready the day before so I don’t have to rush about, even though we don’t get together with anyone due to allergy issues (hubby and I have an anaphylactic reaction to all poultry, hubby is severely allergic to animal dander, and Rach has a potentially deadly allergy to all things citrus, apple, cinnamon, and tomato–makes holidays interesting it does.) Anyway, with lovely family issues holidays are crazy anyway, so we stay home and enjoy being together, or will once I get over myself and remember all that we have to be thankful for.
And so, have a blessed holiday. Off to take my sweet potatoes out of the oven, put on my happy face, and make Thanksgiving a blessing for my family.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow, praise Him all creatures here below, praise Him above ye heavenly host, praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
We’re watching Christmas movies today, too! But only one per week? I’d never make it. We have tons of Christmas movies. 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving, Heather! I hope you had a lovely meal and a lovely time with your family.
We put up… let’s see. We put up some snowmen and our light-up Christmas village last weekend, since we don’t have Thanksgiving as a marker, but the real decorating is waiting for the beginning of Advent this weekend. (and one Christmas movie a week? We have about 40. There’s a ways for us to go before we even make it through the pile!)
I’m so glad your hubby and kids have you to cook a delicious meal for them that won’t make them sick. What a job God has given you! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!
Praying that your Thanksgiving was wonderful!!! I always decorate the weekend after Thanksgiving. This year I am going through all the decorations and downsizing as my sister-in-law’s church are looking for donations 😉
P.S. A white Thanksgiving…oh my…we have the air conditioning on…although it has been getting rather chilly at night 😉
That’s so pretty, I love snow! We got your Christmas card today, it’s so cute. I am so excited to have a piece of your art.
Please stop by Shore’s End when you have time, for an important announcement! : )
We decorated today instead of shopping in the craziness. But we’re not having Thanksgiving dinner officially til Sunday. Now I’ll call it our Holiday Dinner. Lol.
Lovely photos – I plan to sign up at Essie’s blog after the family leaves…
I hope you had a blessed Thanksgiving day and an nice day today as well. We have no snow here, and Monday it is suppose to be 10?C (I think that is about 55?F and rainy. Now who lives in the cold white north;-)?
I decorate for winter (I usually wait until it snows to take down the fall stuff) and leave it up until March when I can bring out the spring/summer stuff. We don’t celebrate Christmas but we have family dinners because we all have time off, and we get together with the neighbours and we go to our company shindigs and enjoy visiting with people. It makes for a very relaxing and enjoyable time of year for us through December we rest, with all the stuff ended for the holidays. It’s all good.
At least you married someone with allergies too and you can work together as a family with your restrictions. I feel blessed when I read of your allergies, because we don’t have them and don’t often think just how lucky and blessed we are.
I got your Christmas card yesterday!! How fun! It was beautiful, of course, and has the distinction of being my first card of the season. Thank you.
happy belated thanksgiving to your home. xo sending you my love…
“make Thanksgiving a blessing for my family”
That attitude has helped me so much over the years. I used to feel sorry for myself about all the cooking and cleaning and I dreaded the whole ordeal, now I look forward to it and get excited about how much they look forward to it and enjoy the feast.