Month: December 2019

It’s 5:00 am on Sunday the 22nd and I’m so excited I can’t sleep. I’m like a kid on Christmas morning…..and I don’t hate it. We are having our family Christmas today and I love knowing the house will be full and we have all sorts of fun things planned for today. I decided since I was wide awake that this was the perfect opportunity to start the coffee pot, turn on the tree lights, enjoy a fire and curl up on the couch and come in here to say hi and get caught up just a tad. December has really flown by, as has 2019. I said at the beginning of the year that 2019 was going to be a great year and it did not disappoint. What a full and happy year it has been. I’ll get in a recap next week (hopefully) and the blog construction should […]

Thankful for a houseful this year as the tradition is passed on to us from my Mother in law. She has always provided us a wonderful and tasty Thanksgiving and now I’ve got some big shoes to fill. I love having a houseful of family and friends and Thursday completely filled my heart. With both of our parents, 4 children all married, 8 grandchildren (and another one on the way!💕) and several lovely extended family members, the house was full of love and belly’s were full of yummy food. I hope that you all had a very Happy Thanksgiving! I have very little experience cooking turkeys. I had decided that two 15 pounders would feed our crowd of 29 and that I would try two different methods of cooking them. My mother in law has always cooked the turkey the day before Thanksgiving so she can carve it, clean up […]