um...Happy Thanksgiving to ya'll in The U.S. of A.
Its winter in Ontario...one foot in 10 hours and risin..if nothing else...we were getting sick of the colour green??
um---if you all have any leftovers...just ship them by UPS...and they will be gratefully received...Im almost out of peanut butter....and cant get out the damned door!!! (smile)
People keep calling me for taxies...I know that there are 2 in the driveway...but we just cant find them....
Have a good one!!
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Doll, I hope you have a great sober Thanksgiving !
I've got pies in the oven, the turkey is in the roaster,the tea is steeping...giblets are cooking, I hate giblet gravy, but I will make a little as my son-in-law loves it...remember he got my PC back up.I prepared the banana pudding last night for my son and grand-daughter, my candied yams for my daughter. Let's see, the dressing, the potatoes, I might bake a cake...hmmmm.
My daughter is going to bring the rolls, and something called ice cream bread, anyone heard of that? I can't wait to experience it, suppose to be yummy, it's not a dessert though.My granddaughter made a five cup salad, which she hates, but I love, so I made her the banana pudding...they are bringing the corn casserole and another vegetable casserole. I think we will have enough food...oh, yes my son-in-law is to bring canned cranberry sauce, because I do fresh, he has to have the ridges...
You must understand that as I fix and prepare, my 77 year old Mother is instructing me from her recliner in the living room. I don't seem to be able to do anything right or her way.I am going to lure her into the kitchen , to help me chop onions and celery in a bit. I won't chop those to her satisfaction, but perhaps I can learn.
Now as for my son, he is bringing himself. Thank you God, I get to see him, and stuff his poor skinny 6 foot frame with food.He will arrive at 1:30 pm and leave by 6:00 pm to get to his job at the club he works at.He just doesn't eat as he should, I bought lots of those little bowls , so he can take leftover with him.
Okay, we will not have the Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving, but we will be together. The dining room table probably will not get set with the fine china, it is covered with Mom's nebulizer and all her various medications and such... we will eat where-ever, Mom in her recliner. We will all be a little sad because Dad, is in jail, my daughter will not allow anyone to tell our grand-daughter where Gampy is...what must go through her little mind? Someone mentioned dsyfunction...just a little going on in my world.
At 7:30 pm this evening I will drag my butt out of what ever I'm laying or sitting on, get in my car, go unlock the door at the church, put the coffee on, and sit down at the table and breathe. Thank God for AA, there might be a couple of other recovering Alcoholics show up, or not... but that's ok. I'm so grateful to this program that has taught me to live life on lifes terms, to thank my God for the small things, not just the big ones. How to stay sober in the midst of the storms that rage, how to reach out and love the unlovable, how to laugh, cry, and to get off of the pity pot and move forward.
I thank God for each of you, you have added a whole new meaming to recovery. If Bill W. could just see us now.Have a great sober day !
Baked pies and sweet rolls yesterday...all came out well, except I dropped a peach pie on the floor as I was taking it out of the oven. Guess sweet potato and sour cream and raisin pies will have to be enough. The turkey is going in and the rest is just a waiting game. It's just the 4 of us this year, can't get the time off to go visiit my family and my hussbands family is going elsewhere this year.
Tonight I will be headed to the church to sit at a meeting...this is the hardest part of the year for the kids at the treatment center...they want to be with thier families during the holidays...so I will be there to share ESH with them as they try to recover.
