Daily Ooo's: Thursday, November 26: Thankful for YOU Edition!

[faerywings]

Hello my wonderful O-Fam! Yes, it is Thanksgiving here in the States, and I am thankful for all of you, all over the world.

I always have had such mixed feelings about Thanksgiving. I think it goes back to when I was a kid and feeling very much the ugly and untalented ducking of sorts. My cousins were these beautiful, musical, athletic people and while I loved them all, it was hard for me to find my "place," so to speak. My aunts and uncles were always going on about this kid's successes or football game or recital. I was/am so shy and my parents are very unassuming, never felt the need to brag about us, that I always ended up feeling so inadequate.
Here I am 30 years later and I still get this anxiety over this holiday. Crazy, right? Gary is not going to be able to come with us which makes me sad. His parents are going to go on about if he just "tried harder" to get out of the house... :blah: This has been going on for 10 years now. I wish they would understand that he would give *anything* to be able to be with his family, rather than sitting alone.

(thank all of the gods that I don't have PMS or this little bit of soliloquy would be much more emotional than it already is haha!!!!)

So there it is. I wish I could be home with Gary and my kids in my pj's eating pasta. But Cait and I are off to my IL's, Scott and Leah and her mom will meet us there later, and my parents will be there too. My issue right now is how tired I have been and I wish I didn't have to drive home "late." When I crash, I crash hard and that is usually by 6pm. My mom told me that I could stay over at her house, she lives much closer to IL's than I do. I guess we'll have to see.

Anyway there is my crazy Holiday Ramblings. Aren't you all so glad to be stand in's as my therapist!?ound:

QOTD Yes, very corny and trite, but what are you thankful for today?
I am thankful for my family, and my extendeds, my BFF. I am *extremely* thankful that my kids' lives are in a much more positive direction than they were even this time last year. I am thankful that my cancer was taken care of and that I made it through that ordeal with so much love and support from everyone -- all of you too!!! I am thankful for the roof over my head, that I can put food on my table (even if I grumble about how expensive it is heh!), and that I have a wonderful creative outlet here at the O.

Hugs love and kisses to you!

 

[faerywings]

Laurie- safe travels today! That is way to funny about your son and the mashed potatoes and stuffing! Definitely good scrap material!

Namaste- welcome to the Ooo's! So nice to have you join us

Nancy- did you stay all snow? We ended up with quite a bit. The news said that my area had 9" and when I went to bed it was still snowing. It is so heavy too the poor tree branches all hanging down. We had a wire that was hanging down so low, so Gary called the electric co to let them know.
Oh no, so sorry about the Devils!

Trudy- I think that they called the snow day on Tuesday night because all of the forecasts were calling for some amounts of snow. Plus being an early dismissal day and the day before Thanksgiving, I think they knew it was going to have be closed. Last year, there was one day that they didn't call it and the HS kids made it in, but the buses going "up the mountain" got stuck.

Chris's fear makes me laugh!! (sorry buddy)

LOL It's OK, it makes me laugh too!!

Phyllis- hope that your soup (yummy!!) and pies came out awesome!

AND i wish i could tuck in to some of your home made wine!

Same!!!!!!!!
I made the soup that I am bringing yesterday. I have it in my crock pot so all I have to do is plug it in to warm it up when I get there.

Laurie- yes, that is my town in the news. it looks the kid's bear photo made it into the news and online. Just looking at it makes me want to smack them all and ask why??? You all know that I love the bears here, and I love being able to take photos of them but I do it from inside my house! Even if I were in my backyard and saw one, I would back up slowly rather than go towards it.
The kids were warned that there was an aggressive bear, you can see that the bear is coming towards them, why did they stick around?
Sorry, the whole situation just makes me sad. Such a loss for the family and a setback for people who would rather find ways of living with bears than killing them all. There was a comment in my local paper that said that bears need to stay out of "our" yards. What??? scuse me, but I think that they were here first. We are in *their* yards.

Ohhhh boy, looks like my hippie dippy tree hugger-ness in out in full force this morning bwuahahahha!!!

Jean- 100% behind you on your perfect day!
Thank you for the good thoughts for Cait's BF.

Ok my dear friends. I will let you all enjoy the rest of you day without my rants.
::grouphug

 

[CindaA]

So much to be thankful for today and everyday! Family, a warm home, good food - I could go on and on! I volunteered our family to help feed the homeless with our church this morning. I didn't realize that we could have cooked the turkey yesterday and just taken it sliced this morning for them to re-heat. We were up at 2:30 am to put it in the oven! We got to help in the kitchen and loading a truck for just over an hour this morning because our 11 year old was complaining his stomach hurt - hopefully it was just his light breakfast before prepping food for others. Headed to my grandma's in a bit - I'm sure the van ride with test his stomach.

Thanks for the creative outlet here at the O and friends all over the world to share it with. Have a blessed day!

 

[taxed4ever]

Morning O-Zies and "Happy Turkey Day"

to all of my American friends! We have already celebrated our Thanksgiving here in Canada, but I am truly Thankful for all of you here and don't know how I could get through my day without all of you in it!!

Chris - Sorry that your Gary will not be joining you for Thanksgiving. We had a long talk with the In-Laws yesterday about Christmas as she found out that her youngest daughter and her man do not want to join anyone for Christmas this year they just want to spend a nice quiet Christmas together and not have to travel or entertain at all. MIL all upset and just doesn't know why anyone would want to be alone at Christmas!! So DH just told her straight that sometimes its nice to just be together and not have to entertain or to pack up everything and travel in bad weather , well she still doesn't get it. Believe me I would rather not have anyone this year either as we are not doing gifts, but we will have the In-Laws for Christmas afternoon and supper and they will stay the night, as we don't want them to be alone. Seems she can't stand not to be with others and I get that. They have lost many of their friends and their brothers and sisters don't offer to have them, the other daughter is going to spend Christmas with her son and new grand baby . The daughter that wants to be alone is their favourite and she makes no bones about letting us all know that she is the favourite, so she is very hurt by this. Oh well I guess she will get over it and will have to settle for us instead LOL. So now you have listened to my ramblings too, :sorry:

Cinda - Hope your son's tummy is feeling better and that is too bad that you had to get up in the middle of the night to make a turkey!! But what a lovely thing to do on Thanksgiving Day and such a wonderful thing for your children to be a part of too! A great lesson to them to be Thankful for the good life that they enjoy!! Happy Thanksgiving to you!

:wave: to all those who come in here today, may your day be filled with wonderful things to be Thankful for!! Try not to overdo on the Turkey dinners!

QOTD - I am thankful for the fact that my children are now all healthy and happy, for my beautiful grandchildren, my loving husband and the gorgeous scenery of the place where I live! I am also thankful for all of you who are a part of my daily life! May you all enjoy Health and Happiness on this day of your Thanksgiving!! :wave:

 

[petey111]

Really quick pop in to say Hi and I love you guys. Miss you guys during this crazy busy semester. I still have a statistics final and a 20ish page paper to finish and my book fair. So I will be back in about a week and a half. Trudy, I totally love that you put that picture up. Makes me laugh.

I'll be off to my family's in a little bit. Should be fun as we haven't spent Thanksgiving with them in a while. Have an excellent day everyone!

 

[scrap-genie]

Afternoon, all! Hope it is a good day, Thanksgiving or not. We have a little snow on the ground and just above freezing temps. Pretty day though cloudy. DH will spend day watching football.

QOTD: I have so much to be thankful for. My DH is tops but so many friends including here at the O. Warm home, being able to pursue my art, genealogy and scrapping. Both my siblings are getting by (both in early 80s). Birds are always a wonderful way to relate to the world. Just so much!

Sara, happy to see you. Good luck getting through the next days to the semester's end.

Trudy, thanks for the Thanksgiving wishes and that incredible photo! Sorry about the MIL. Guess that's something else I can be thankful for, my MIL and I liked each other and got along fine. She was pretty amazing in her own way. Glad you can enjoy the beautiful place where you live.

Cinda, so fine doing the volunteer Thanksgiving. Hope you son is better now.

Chris, sorry about Gary having to stay home and your ILs not understanding. Family, ain't it great! Love your approach to the bears and wish more people had a brain. Hope you don't get too tired and can enjoy the day.

Laurie, Nancy, Phylis, and all: hope you have safe and happy days!

 

[CindaA]

Thanks for all of the well wishes for our son's tummy. He's been fine the rest of the day! We enjoyed time with my family. It's always especially good to see my grandma (88) and my cousins' little ones (4 & 1). Looked through all of the black Friday ads just for fun. I might venture out to Home Depot and JoAnn's after my guys head out for deer camp for a couple of things, but none of that crazy early door buster stuff!