A new favorite website leads me to thanksgiving
I found The Pioneer Woman Cooks blog somehow through 6 degrees of seperation. This is wonderful! Anyone (I think even the Dad) could figure out a few recipes and make them be oh so tasty!
Tomorrow I’m having an Uppercase Living party at my house. And if I can magically pull off cleaning the house top to bottom AND make some homemade yummy treats, then I believe I will be the winner of all things mommy. I look forward to the challenge.
Today is Sunday. I didn’t go to church. The Little Sister and I stayed home and Dad and Big Sister went off. I miss them. I wish we were able to go. I woke with a horrible headache and Little Sister is still asleep. It’s short of a miracle.
We went to my InLaws yesterday. Big Sister had such a great time. We stayed too late, though. Causing the girls to have a really rough night. Myself included.
PawPaw (my FIL) had a black eye. At first I thought Granny (my MIL) finally put her foot down to show who was really incharge of that house. But I know better. Turns out PawPaw chased down an oppossum and it just so happens the oppossum won. The critter had been going into the chicken house (yes, chicken house) and was eatin’ those eggs. PawPaw had enough of that and set a live trap. Only later to shoot at him… but that’s how it goes. I can’t help but to get all southern’ talkin’ as I talk about the weekend with my inlaws. They live in a tiny community, are going to the same small Methodist church PawPaw grew up in and have a garden bigger than most backyards. I love them dearly, though sometimes I know we don’t see eye to eye. They love our girls more than I could have ever hoped for. And they love the Dad and I so much.
I look forward to the girls getting to go to the country for weekends with PawPaw and Granny. I pray they will have the kind of stories and memories that I so lovingly cherish from my childhood.
My Grandaddy recently passed away. A month ago on the 17th. He is missed with such passion, I still cannot say his name with out tears. Nothing is fonder in my childhood than riding the tractor with him in the fields, helping collect big rocks that made mowing hard, going to the coffee shop to sit with his friends. And most memorable was going to South Carolina with my grandparents. Hearing stories of their childhoods and families. My Gram is currently in a nursing home with stage four dementia. Life is hard and full of heartache. And that’s when knowing that I will see these two sweet souls in full health again one day, makes my heart ache a little less.
God is so good to give us these memories. To give us such a small glimpse of what it is like to be in Heaven near His presence. I can only imagine what it will be like. To see our loved ones who are no longer with us, to hear the voice of God himself! The thought shakes me to my core. God is so good.
Right now, service will be starting and the whole congregation will be filling the sanctuary with songs of praise and thanksgiving! I will go snuggle my little one in my arms, fill her belly and thank God for His amazing love and mercy that He continues to shower down on my family and self.
