Holidays keep marching by!
When we get past Valentine's Day,
it will have been a full year round of them since the Pandemic began.
On Veterans Day, every year for the last several, Roger and I have had fun
making the rounds to several participating restaurants, taking them up on their free food offerings for veterans.
Roger looks forward to it, dressing up in his flight "bag," shaking lots of hands
and getting into fun conversations with other vets wherever we have gone to eat.
This year, there was either pick-up curb service or the handing out of coupons to be used after the Pandemic.
So nice of businesses to do that!
Roger picking up a curbside coupon at Texas Road House to be used later.
President Nelson challenged all of us to every day post what we are grateful for
on the days leading up to Thanksgiving.
Here are some of our great blessings that we posted about on Facebook:
So grateful for my Father in Heaven and His Son, who, much like my dad did, make me feel loved, comforted and with a peaceful heart. #givethanks
His Son, Jesus Christ
It's fun exchanging "Fish Face" with grandson, Blakey - in person and across the internet. I adore this kid! #givethanks
So grateful for my roots - my grandparents, my parents and my siblings. People filled with integrity, all! #givethanks
I am grateful that, 54 years ago, Roger and I found each other. We have since found joy loving each other, through the thick of it and the thin of it. We are blessed! #givethanks
Who knew that when we had our firstborn, that we'd get five of the greatest kids in the world? And now, they have each had their own greatest kids in the world! Our family totals 37, and we're now adding greats, starting with Syd and Jake's little Charlie. Love beyond measure. HAPPY THANKSGIVING! #givethanks
We were invited to go to Boise to be with Missy and Jedd's family this year,
but with the safety precautions out there, we decided to stay home.
But what's Thanksgiving without a turkey dinner and all of the trimings?
Roger and I worked together all morning.
We had a roast turkey, homemade stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, candied yams, green bean casserole,
sauerkraut and whole cranberry sauce.
We had returned from up north the night before, where we had picked up a Market Street Grill pumpkin pie.
We had the turkey from Costco waiting for us in the frig and had all of the other ingredients ready to go.
I should mention, a few days before Thanksgiving, we had gone up north on an overnight trip
to drop off Christmas presents to our niece, Whitney, to take to Boise for Missy's family, John and Cindy,
Lois, Patty and Karleen. It was a quick but very fruitful trip, because we also had a quick visit with Lois, stayed in Rick and Jodie's empty house overnight (they had gone to Watercolor, Florida, for Thanksgiving), met Karleen to give her her Christmas present and catch up a little,
and drop off a present for Patty and catch up with her and Hal in Elkridge!
So here is our Thanksgiving Dinner for Two!
That's never happened before in our lifetime, and, though we had a pleasant day,
it hopefully won't ever happen again -
Thanksgiving is a time for family to gather together!
So we continue to carry on with our routines each day, looking forward to when we can gather in person
with friends and loved ones. In the meantime, we are appreciating and enjoying our zoom meetings
with our Come Follow Me group and our kids each week.
Roger is getting in lots of golf and he has also wandered about and taken many pretty pics
of the beautiful area where we live.
We are hanging in there, with the vaccine getting ever nearer.
Many life lessons are being emphasized and some new ones learned, the biggest one being
our gratitude to our Heavenly Father!
But I can't wait to hug my grandkids again!
