Our Day of Thanks

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Ours was filled with terrific food, great company and a good movie. What more could you ask?

Chillin' out watching a movie

"What is on that tree?"

Happy Thanksgiving to You All!

The Pumpkin

By J. G. Whittier

Ah! On Thanksgiving Day, when from East and from West,
From North and from South come the pilgrim and guest,
When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board
The old broken links of affection restored,
When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,
And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before,
What moistens the lip, and what brightens the eye?
What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?

O, fruit loved of boyhood! the old days recalling;
When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling!
When wild, ugly faces were carved in its skin,
Glaring out through the dark with a candle within!
When we laughed round the corn heap, with hearts all in tune,
Our chair a broad pumpkin, our lantern the moon,
Telling tales of the fairy who traveled like steam
In a pumpkin-shell coach, with two rats for her team!

Then, thanks for thy present! - none sweeter or better
E'er smoked from an oven or circled a platter!
Fairer hands never wrought at a pastry more fine,
Brighter eyes never watched o'er its baking than thine!
And the prayer, which my mouth is too full to express,
Swells my heart that thy shadow may never be less,
That the days of thy lot may be lengthened below,
And the fame of thy worth like a pumpkin-vine grow,
And thy life be as sweet, and its last sunset sky
Gold-tinted and fair as thine own pumpkin-pie!

Ready, Set........Go

This is what I have been telling myself for the past three hours. But yet I still manage to stay seated at my computer. Just one more. I have weeks worth of blog reading to catch up on.

It is amazing the emotional roller coaster one can ride while in front of a piece of electronic equipment. I have laughed at emails and cried over blogs..... Tim's wedding. To add to the drama I have a cold and am doped up on cold medicine. I have not drank coffee in three weeks, right now I am working on my third cup. My rationale? I can use the calories, I'm sick. That was also my thinking last night in the drive-thru to Panda Express. I know, I know. Don't break my bubble. It will break on its' own soon enough.

In other news. Mallorie is officially three! For the most part we had a week long celebration. I did not bake a cake, but did bake cupcakes for her party at school. We celebrated with a store bought cheesecake at home. Mallorie did get a Barbie cupcake with candles to blow out. She licked off the frosting and went for the cheesecake.


My brain is mush and Mallorie is throwing a record breaking fit. Okay.....Go!

The Picture Says It All

Riding in big brother's truck. Man! Are we a big shot?