Hello, gentle readers! Hope you are all well
and staying safe!
Happy Thanksgiving! I have to admit, this is my favorite holiday,
by far! The smell of turkey roasting, the warmth of family and good friends,
the knowledge that Thanksgiving is the official start of the holiday season.
Yeah, it’s my thing.
In years past, I had a full house and cooked
for days, breaking out the old recipes passed down from generation to
generation. There’s my mother-in-law’s stuffing recipe (as my son used to say “It’s
the bomb”), my grandmother’s cheesecake recipe (it’s a killer…oh so good), my mother’s
apple pie (sweet, cinnamony goodness bordering on sinful). So many memories are
associated with food and preparing it. The laughter, the teaching moments, the
many, many ‘oops’…yeah, sometimes the hand mixer could get away from you and
there would be cake batter all over.
I distinctly remember my grandfather chopping
celery and onions for the stuffing while my grandmother supervised. My mother,
who believed that as the first-born daughter, I needed to know everything about
hosting a big dinner, had me by her side the entire day, basting the turkey, peeling
the potatoes and learning her secret for creating the perfect mashed potato,
washing the dishes as we went so the kitchen stayed clean (which is something I
still do).
This year, it’s going to be quiet, just the DH
and I. And I took the week off from the day job. Yes, I will pay for it when I
go back into the office, but that’s all right…I plan to use my time off to my
advantage. Cooking, of course, but there’s a few movies I’ve been wanting to
see…and I plan to write. A lot. Starting right now.
And even though it’s going to be quiet this
year, I still have so many things to be thankful for. And I don’t just save
that gratitude for one day. I am grateful all year long—for family, for friends
who have become family, for a job that I love (although the countdown to
retirement has begun), for a warm home, but mostly, I am thankful for you, gentle
readers, for reading my stories, for liking my characters as much as I do, for
giving me the chance to show you some of the worlds I like to create.
Happy Thanksgiving! Stay well! Stay safe! And
remember to spread kindness wherever you go!
Marie
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