How Do You Celebrate Thanksgiving?



Levi two Months

 Every morning when I come to my computer this is what I see...how cute is this?  This is currently my youngest grandchild.  And what a little cutie.  Am I thankful for him, you had better believe it.  As well as for the lovely young women who is mother and wife to our youngest son.  They are a wonderful family with their priorities mostly in the right places...I have to say mostly because I don't want to swell any heads.


What are you doing for Thanksgiving?

We are celebrating by having dinner with my husband's in laws, from his previous marriage, my husband's ex-wife, and other family members from that side of the family.  I have a sister who lives, by car, only about two hours away, and busy with her husband's side of the family mostly, and I have a dad who lives in Florida, with his dear lady friend.  And I have an aunt in north central PA, along with three cousins.  So while everyone is busy with their own families, so are we busy with ours. 

There are so many blended families anymore and that is how we came up with a different way of celebrating our holidays.

We have our children and grandchildren come on the Saturday following the original day of celebration.  However, since this is really the first time we have Samuel and Mary with their new little guy, they will not be able to make it.  Mary is from Rhode Island, and that is pretty far away, so they will be spending some time up there with Mary's family, which, since we are closer and can see them more often, we, Tim and I don't begrudge them this precious time.  So we will have to wait till our Christmas and New Year celebration for literally all the children and grandchildren to be together.  And to take a new family photo, you will have to wait for January to see this, so sorry, but that is the best that the Smith's can do!

I am working today but, when I get home I will be making a Crunchy Munchy Apple Cake, to take along with us tomorrow.  Oh this is a wonderful cake with hunks of apple, and raisins, and walnuts, thru out and I have discovered how to make a wonderful brown sugar glaze to just pour over the top that is just awesome,  AND, I make it with gluten free flours so I can eat it to!  Yup I have celiac disease, no biggy, believe me I still eat really well!

I have never been one to cook out of a box, so that has really been a help to me in walking this path that I am on now for about eight year.  It was a little difficult at first, but I have prevailed!  Enough said about this if any of you out there have any questions for me about this just get in touch with me.

Back to Thanksgiving...wow I really can get side-tracked!  This year, well actually all of my grandchildren can thank Trenton for this one; we are going to have a very child friendly Thanksgiving meal.  Tim was telling our one son Scott and our grandson Trenton that we are having ham instead of turkey.  And Trenton said to his Pappy that, "Mac and cheese would be really good to have," and of course Pappy told Mam Maw.....so we are going to have a kid friendly Thanksgiving dinner.  Which I can only tell you that Mac and Cheese will be part of it and the rest I will tell you about at a later date.  I don't want to ruin the surprise.

I will be here tomorrow, Thanksgiving day with a special little story for the children, your children if you have them and for my grandchildren.  It is something that I have been working on for a little bit of time and I do believe you all will enjoy it.  So while I will be here tomorrow, Thursday I may not be back after that until Monday the 26th, I will have to see how it all plays out.  So for now God Bless you all and go and be a blessing to some one else today.