Blessings

From our house to yours ~ Happy Belated Thanksgiving.

We have much to be thankful for, here. For still having each other and no accidents this year. For our son's therapies and special ed going so very well. For our daughter's precociousness and goofiness. That we still have all of our parents and siblings.

That we ate entirely too much food on Thursday.

That we could share a special day, complete with celebratory feast, with others who had no where else to go, and a few guys who had to work all day. (We took them food).

That I have a bed to fall into after two full days of non-stop cooking.

That it's been exactly one year since I could walk without a cane.

Because we were sharing with others who had different traditions than our families did growing up, I made a lot of extras:

homemade whole-berry cranberry sauce
green congealed salad (lime jello, cream cheese, and canned pears. Yum)
green bean casserole
broccoli casserole
sweet potato souffle
mashed red potatoes
vat 'o' dressing, with homemade cornbread and biscuits therein
2 batches of homemade hot rolls
ham
turkey
gravy (no giblets this year)
pumpkin pie
coconut pie (great-great-aunt's recipe)

homemade cinnamon rolls that taste like cinnabon rolls (no kidding, the recipe title is "clone of a cinnabon". They take three hours to make, but are soooo worth it).

shrimp dip
spinach artichoke dip ~ both served with triscuits, wheat thins, and tortilla chips

a gallon of sweet tea

...and, there's not much leftover, after sending our guests home with some and taking food to the guys who were working.