Thanksgiving 2012

[southernyankeebelle]

5. My deceased father-in-law used to say Good morning, and I would laugh and repeat it.

Then he would say "any day you wake up in the morning and put your feet on the ground is a good day". He of course was right. Every morning I think about that saying and say Thank you lord for another day of living. It's what you do with it. Sometimes just trying to cope with family health issues or the kids trival things. But at the end of the day you find you made it through. I know there are alot of lonely people during the holidays. I try and keep some of the old family traditions when I was a little girl. Plus now I start a new tradition with our granddaugther. Because her half brother goes to his daddy's every other weekend I will this week pull out our little christmas tree and decorate it with her grandpa. She just loves doing that. Today her and I made our stuffing balls. I got our biggest bowl and cut up 2 loaves of bread. Put all the mixes in it and I look at my 6 yr old granddaughter and told her to start mixing. She loves doing that job. As we were mixing I looked at her telling her we are making memories. She looked at me with the 6 yr old look and she how. I told her when she got older and would make this stuffing she will remember her and I making this dish and she will in turn will share that with her grandchild some day. She just smiled. I sure remember doing things with my Nonna when I was very young.