Comments on: Giving Thanks & Surviving Family Dinner http://cajsalilliehook.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/giving-thanks-surviving-my-family-dinner/ Yet another SL fashion blog Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:02:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: annabelladonner http://cajsalilliehook.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/giving-thanks-surviving-my-family-dinner/#comment-1225 annabelladonner Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:56:30 +0000 http://cajsalilliehook.wordpress.com/?p=1731#comment-1225 A very lovely trip down memory lane, Caj. Sounds like big fun to me. My grandmother usually hosted our big Thanksgiving meals when I was a kid. Tons of cousins, too much food, and massive football or volleyball games in the yard afterwards. Hope you had a wonderful day yesterday. A very lovely trip down memory lane, Caj. Sounds like big fun to me. My grandmother usually hosted our big Thanksgiving meals when I was a kid. Tons of cousins, too much food, and massive football or volleyball games in the yard afterwards.

Hope you had a wonderful day yesterday.

]]> By: Harper http://cajsalilliehook.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/giving-thanks-surviving-my-family-dinner/#comment-1222 Harper Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:49:33 +0000 http://cajsalilliehook.wordpress.com/?p=1731#comment-1222 Lord, you make me nostalgic for my sister's Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners back some 20 years ago. She played the host to us every year for many years, since she had the growing family, so Mom and Dad and I would go to her house, and there'd be a horde of us around the table. Not nearly as many as your family, but it would be busy there. These days, it's just the four of my own family, with the extended family in other states. My son asked about that today, why we couldn't have someone in for Thanksgiving. I told him that, if we were living about 30 miles farther down the road in another town, where there's a military school, I'd be quite willing. Some of those poor kids don't go home for holidays, and there would be a chance to offer a little home cooking to someone who'd have to put up with mess hall chow instead of a decent meal. Or if we were near an actual military base. (No matter who you have doing the cooking at anything even vaguely military in nature, the food ends up being chow. Can you imagine a Thanksgiving or Christmas MRE? <i>[Shudder]</i>) I hope your Thanksgiving was fun and blessed! Lord, you make me nostalgic for my sister’s Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners back some 20 years ago. She played the host to us every year for many years, since she had the growing family, so Mom and Dad and I would go to her house, and there’d be a horde of us around the table. Not nearly as many as your family, but it would be busy there. These days, it’s just the four of my own family, with the extended family in other states.

My son asked about that today, why we couldn’t have someone in for Thanksgiving. I told him that, if we were living about 30 miles farther down the road in another town, where there’s a military school, I’d be quite willing. Some of those poor kids don’t go home for holidays, and there would be a chance to offer a little home cooking to someone who’d have to put up with mess hall chow instead of a decent meal. Or if we were near an actual military base. (No matter who you have doing the cooking at anything even vaguely military in nature, the food ends up being chow. Can you imagine a Thanksgiving or Christmas MRE? [Shudder])

I hope your Thanksgiving was fun and blessed!

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