Category Archives: Thanksgiving

Give Thanks

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Psalms 118:19  Open for me the gates of the righteous: I will enter and give thanks to the Lord.

 

Monday 18th-  I am thankful that we are in a season of life where I can stop and get breakfast on my way to work.

Tuesday 19th- I am thankful for sweet sisters in Christ who pray for me

Wednesday 20th- I am thankful for new jeans

Thursday 21st- I am thankful for FaceTime that allows us to not only hear but see family that is far away.

Friday 22- I am thankful for soup

Saturday 23rd- I am thankful for my washer

Sunday 24th- I am thankful for friends who convince me to walk and shop!

Five Things

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  1. This has been a better week for me. I have been able to enjoy work and am actually staying somewhat caught up.  I hope to continue this routine as the first of this school year has been rough and I am glad to not dread coming to work.
  2. We are headed to Florida for Thanksgiving. We have travel alot more years than we have stayed at home on Thanksgiving. My only disappointment is the temperature in Florida are suppose to be in the 70s , I was hoping for 80s.
  3. Thanksgiving is late this year, the last week of November so I have decided to go ahead and decorate!   I hope by the end of the weekend to have all the decorations that I am going to use both inside and outside in place.
  4. Zach has already started practice for Baseball in the Spring,  He is continuing to swim.  This means that staying at home all evenings was short lived but much enjoyed. I am glad that he finishes baseball around 4:45 instead of 5:45.
  5. I think we have settled our plans for Christmas/ New Years so now I definitely need to get my plans together for the beach next year!

Thankful

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Ezra 3:11 With praise and thanksgiving they sang to the Lord: “He is good; his love toward Israel endures forever.” And all the people gave a great shout of praise to the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.

Monday 11/11- Today I am thankful for a day off of work.
Tuesday 11/12- I am thankful for my husband who is willing to pitch in and doing about anything I ask.
Wednesday 11/13- I am thankful for cellphones/iphone that allows me to make calls while I drive.
Thursday- I am thankful for the ability to pick up dinner when the day has gone sideways.
Friday- I am thankful for the ability to watch Kendall and Zach swim.
Saturday- I am thankful to be able to shop and finish up my Christmas shopping way in advance
Sunday- I am thankful for my Savior and Lord.

I am Thankful

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Colossians 4:2 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.

4th-I am thankful for my job; I work for an organization that continues to use the name of Jesus daily. I am so blessed to work with this group of people.

5th- I am thankful for a sunroof in my car. On the days when things are gloomy the extra light always makes me smile.

6th- I am thankful for my mom. She continues to attend events for my kids and even joins us for dinner.

7th- I am thankful for having a well stocked pantry.

8th-I am thankful for being able to go to the grocery store and not need to keep track of every penny I am spending or only buying certain items because I don’t have enough money.

9th- I am grateful for the internet to entertain and educate me

10th. I am grateful for a ‘rest” day!

Thankfulness

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In this year in particular, I need to “Count my blessings” aka be Thankful. November is an awesome month to focus on this. My goal for this is to add a post every Sunday that includes an entire week of gratitude.

1- I was able to go and vote on November 1st.  I am thankful for the privilege to have a choice and voice in government.

2- I am thankful for my husband who is willing to go along with some crazy ideas and who loves Disney as much as I do!

3. Today I am thankful for all 5 of my children. Each one is unique and special and I am blessed to be their mother through thick and thin!

 

Thanksgiving

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This year was the most relax and uneventful holiday in a long time. However, it was not without illness as Lily caught a stomach bug! Hopefully she does not share with the rest of us.

We were very happy and surprised that Haley and David ended up spending the holiday with us.  Unplanned but fun!

Thursday, we have lunch at my brothers with all the family and lots of food. We were in charge of the turkey, stuffing and 3 deserts.  I was very glad to have leftovers and even planned on snacking most of the evening!

Friday, we worked on getting our Christmas decorations up for most of the day and took things a little bit slower paced.  I decided to treat everyone, and we ended up going out to eat at a Japanese steak house.  The food was awesome, and we all enjoyed it!

After dropping Braxton off, most of us decided to head out for some Black Friday shopping. Our biggest purchase of the evening? pillows!

 

Five Things Friday- Grocery Version

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Noone is surprised or can argue the fact that groceries price has risen significantly this year.  I am now also feeding 3 teenagers!  So it is a struggle to feed us without breaking the bank. Here is how I am working to keep our budget intact.

  1. Costco chicken…. I picked up a chicken yesterday while getting the tires rotated on the Equinox.  We had just the plain roasted chicken with sides for dinner yesterday.  It easily fed six of us.  I stripped the remaining chicken meat put it in the refrigerator and placed the bones and skins in the crockpot to make chicken stock.  We used one package of the chicken for dinner tonight and will have another full meal if not two from the remaining chicken. That means we had enough meat for 3 meals for $4.99.  I also made approximately 6 quarts of chicken stock.
  2. Thanksgiving Turkey- I am in charge of providing the turkey for my families Thanksgiving this year.  I was watching for sales as the normal price of $1.29 a pound was just too much. Food Lion had a sale this week, that if you spent $35 you could purchase turkey for twenty-nine cent a pound.  Although I really did not “need” any items. I ended up get a 26-pound turkey for $6 and change.  The original cost of the turkey was $64.67, and my final total was $51.64.
  3. Aldi has for the past two years has “rolled back” prices on many items needed for Thanksgiving.  There is a 12 can limit per item.  I purchased both a case (12 cans) of green peas and corn.   I may return and purchase other items later in the month.
  4. Minimizing food waste.  We have had several vegetables that have been sitting in the refrigerator for a couple of weeks now. I also purchased by accident 2 10# bags of potato, each bag was purchased a week apart. The first bag I opened to make baked potatoes last week had already started to spout.  I decided to make these items shelf stable before they needed to be tossed.  I ended up canning 10 quarts of chicken pot pie base and 9 pints of cream of potato soup.   This should actually last over a year but used items that would have otherwise been thrown out!
  5. Eating from the pantry and only buying items that are either on a signficant sale or items that we have ran out of. For example the green peas, I used the last can last weekend for a 7 layer salad. The cans of corn were 50 cent cheaper than what I am currently getting with Subscribe and Save.    I am using the ALEXA app to keep up with items we run out of and am trying not to shop unless absolutely necessary!

Thanksgiving Thankfulness

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Yes, it has been an entire week since I have blogged. I have been very busy and stressed over the past week. The good news is that I am finally caught up at work. I am so very thankful for this!!!!

I am also thankful this week for my family!  We have all been together these past two days. We have been enjoying food and fellowship.  Last night we had a Mexican night with lots of good food! We ended the night on the deck with a small fire pit.

I am also very thankful that we have the means to run out to the store and grab last minute things like marshmallows without it stressing us out!

I am thankful that the kids are all enjoying just being together and enjoying reasonable conversation!

Happy Thanksgiving!