Happy Thanksgiving

Have a blessing-counting, thanks-giving, food-eating, family-loving, football-watching kind of day people.

Hail to the Dressing

Happy Thanksgiving Eve people.

In honor of the eve of the day that I will eat my mother's dressing, I am rerunning last year's tribute to the dressing. Which I love. In case you haven't noticed.


Originally posted November 25, 2008

I Can Taste It Now

It's probably going to be in my best interest to start a mini-fast to try to save up some calories so I can eat more on Thursday. Won't it be yummy? Kashi bars and Lean Cuisines for me from here on out. Not so yummy.

I love the turkey and the green bean casserole and the cranberries and all the other Thanksgiving foods. But my heart belongs to the dressing. And not just anybody's dressing. My mother's dressing. Yes, I'm a dressing snob.

Thanksgiving is at my house this year. Everybody is bringing something. My mom is bringing the turkey and the dressing. I've made a turkey and dressing before. The turkey, I can manage. The dressing, another story. It was okaaaaaaay. But just not like my mom's. Even though I followed her "non-recipe" exactly.

And it's a very simple "non-recipe". It's a cornbread dressing. It actually only has 5 ingredients. I think.... Well, maybe more if you count the herbs and spices. And it DOESN'T have some ingredients. Dressing rules: No eggs, no celery, no oysters, no cream of anything soup, not much sage.

It's just very simple. And it's just very good. And yes, it is good enough to have an entire blog post dedicated to it.

Man, I heart that stuff. And it just wouldn't be the same Thanksgiving if I didn't have my mom's dressing. I would - and often do - skip dessert just to have more dressing.

I'm getting excited right now thinking about it.

Mom, quit reading this blog and go make the dressing!!

That is, by far, my favorite food at Thanksgiving.

What about you? What Thanksgiving dish makes your mouth water?

Must visit eye doctor

Me, driving to church Sunday morning: "Look Cooper! It's a deer! See it?!"

Cooper: "Mom, that's a bush."

Me: "A bush? Are you sure?"

Cooper: "Yes, it's a bush."

Me: "Hmmmmm, well I guess you won't let me go hunting with you next time then will you?"

Cooper: "Well yeah, you can go. But you just won't be allowed to shoot at anything."

23 on the 23rd

Random thoughts for you on this lovely Monday. I have numbered this list, but am not in any way trying to imitate or be confused with the award winning Keyboard Confessions from Sounds like Tomatoes. I hope Kearsie doesn't sue me and take me to blog court.

1. The Ole Miss / LSU game on Saturday was a wild one.

2. Les Miles is an idiot.

3. I bought 7 Christmas gifts this weekend.

4. If you'll recall, I have to have all gifts for the Captain's side of the family purchased and wrapped by this Friday.

5. Most of the gifts I bought this weekend were for MY side of the family.

6. We will exchange our gifts on Christmas.

7. That does not compute.

8. I want to see The Blind Side.

9. I have no desire to see New Moon.

10. If Chevre cheese were a person, I would marry it.

11. I can't wait to eat my mom's dressing on Thursday.

12. I usually eat more dressing for dessert instead of pie.

13. Although Connie makes this great buttermilk pie.

14. So I will probably have dressing and pie for dessert.

15. I raked four huge piles of leaves on Saturday.

16. The bratty kid across the street came over and kicked them all over the yard before I could bag them.

17. I told him he could come back on Sunday and re-rake them for me.

18. I am the meanie mom in the neighborhood.

19. But hey - I'm practically the only mom who is out there involved with the kids.

20. So I can fuss at them if I want to.

21. Somebody has to teach them something.

22. Three days until I have Mom's dressing...

23. Lotta' talk about food on this post today...


Happy Monday people!

Pause

"Praise the LORD.

Give thanks to the LORD,

for he is good;

his love endures forever."

~ Psalm 106:1

Twitter Review

It sounds all disjointed when I read the tweets like this.....

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Anxiety abounds

Too tired to tweet.

Do me a favor....Thank a first responder today. Their jobs are not always easy or pleasant. Just sayin'.

Doing all the post-party wrap up stuff. Like trying to get rid of 300 dessert forks that I found under my desk....

I do not know what a Zhu Zhu hamster is. I am not with it.

Dear Family Feud Contestant: Seriously. Everything your brother-in-law says is not really a "Good answer! Good answer!"

You sunk my battleship!

Up, but not really at 'em.

Dear Weatherman: High today only 50? What happened to that 75 we had just two days ago???

“We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.” ~ Calvin & Hobbes

THETIGERGAMEISMAKINGMENERVOUS!!!!!!!!!

"One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others." ~ Lewis Carroll

Ummmm, yep, my two point Tiger loss still hurts this morning.

Visit to dentist this morning to get my crown put in. I may or may not have accidentally bit his assistant.

Currently experiencing the longest. week. ever.

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." ~ Wayne Gretzky

Cooking a delicious, gourmet, well-balanced meal for my family that is cleverly disguised as a frozen pizza.

Christmas is five weeks from today. Cue the panic.

There's nothing good about goodbye.

I'm not even gonna' ask

See anything odd in this picture?

Well, besides me (kind of) and the camera flash in the mirror....

Look again....

(Sorry about the flash again. I know you will find this hard to believe, but I do all my own photography for this blog so some of it is a tad bit unprofessional....)

See it?


If you think it is a pair of little boy's underwear and a sock....

...on the light fixture in my bathroom....



....then you are exactly right.


Good gravy.