{"id":1096,"date":"2012-11-22T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2012-11-22T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T12:45:15","slug":"happy-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off, here&#8217;s a couple of comments from yesterday, both from down the street!<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li id=\"li-comment-4260\">\n<div id=\"comment-4260\">\n<div><cite>Blondie<\/cite>\u00c2\u00a0says:<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=1095#comment-4260\">November 21, 2012 at 7:46 pm<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Not to sound \u00e2\u20ac\u0153upity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but I think you meant blow this popcicle stand! LOL<br \/>\nHappy Thanksgiving to everyone who reads this Blog:)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=1095&amp;replytocom=4260#respond\">Reply<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"li-comment-4283\">\n<div id=\"comment-4283\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ed1999e8ab4d5a647c430ed9883ac398?s=40&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D40&amp;r=G\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><cite>Tom<\/cite>\u00c2\u00a0says:<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=1095#comment-4283\">November 22, 2012 at 1:17 am<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Noticed you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get your lights up! Slacker, you have until Friday night! Ha ha.<br \/>\nMust be busy, cause your usually almost finished by now!<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m not one to correct, but I think the saying, as I remember it, is &#8220;blow this popcorn stand&#8221;. I hadn&#8217;t heard &#8220;popsicle stand&#8221; before, maybe it&#8217;s a gender or geographic thing. As far as my lights, well Uncle T is right, I just haven&#8217;t had the time. I was going to try to get them done yesterday but had to take the youngest to the doctor, go grocery shopping ($306! WOW is food expensive!) get the youngest a hair cut and that took us right up to dark which now comes about 5pm.<\/p>\n<p>We have three football games on tv today, which I&#8217;m thankful for as football is a nice diversion from all the pressures of life. But I wanted to ask all of you to comment on what you&#8217;re thankful for. For us as a family, there&#8217;s the obvious, our health, a roof over our heads, food on the table and all of you. But if you dig deeper and think about it, what do you come up with? I think too many people focus on what they don&#8217;t have, rather than what they do have. I&#8217;m not just talking materialistic things either. You might focus on not being able to lose those few extra pounds rather than how healthy you are and so on. So, let&#8217;s hear it, what do you have to say. I&#8217;ll take Peyton Manning off the table right now as everyone in Denver is thankful for him!<\/p>\n<p>By the way, Peyton is feeding over 10,000 people today through his various foundations. He&#8217;s not only a great quarterback, he&#8217;s a great guy. Go Bronco&#8217;s!<\/p>\n<p>Today my mom is coming over at 2 or so. We decided (or I did) to get a turkey anyhow. I did get a pre cooked one from Whole Foods and hopefully it&#8217;s foolproof. I did this mainly for the kids as Thanksgiving is supposed to be turkey and all the trimmings. After all, we&#8217;re not Chinese or anything. We&#8217;ll also have mashed potato&#8217;s and gravy, green beans, stuffing, assorted salads (like my mom&#8217;s famous cucumber salad) and pecan and cherry pie with home made whipped cream. Put that together with lots of football and you have a traditional Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>Uncle T and Aunt B are having, I think, her parents over. This morning I think we&#8217;re going on a walk with a bunch of people and then going to one of our friends houses for coffee and pastries. Then we&#8217;ve been invited to stop into another friends house in Genesse and then dessert at more friends this evening downtown. No pressure, just lots of invites.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost 5:30 and I&#8217;m headed to the gym. Everyone is still sleeping. It&#8217;s good to be home from Aspen. As I said yesterday, we enjoy Steamboat much much more than Aspen. It was so pretentious that it makes Paris look like a little mid western town. (no slam on Paris as it&#8217;s one of our favorite city&#8217;s on earth!) Anyhow, it&#8217;s great to be back home with the dogs and our own bed.<\/p>\n<p>In closing, take care, have a great day and God Bless. Let&#8217;s hear from all of you on what you&#8217;re thankful for, it shouldn&#8217;t be that difficult to come up with something. Hope your turkey turns our great and don&#8217;t eat too much as there&#8217;s always tomorrow and leftovers, which are really the best part anyhow!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, here&#8217;s a couple of comments from yesterday, both from down the street! Blondie\u00c2\u00a0says: November 21, 2012 at 7:46 pm Not to sound \u00e2\u20ac\u0153upity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but I think you meant blow this popcicle stand! 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