Thanksgiving in Review

We hosted a small family dinner for Thanksgiving this year, it was cozy and everything I ever could have hoped for. Seeing my family healthy, happy, and united brings a salty little tear to my eye. Thankful does not begin to describe my overwhelming sense of gratitude for the blessings we received during our challenging time this year. Over the course of a three month period we experienced concerning health troubles, job loss, the birth of our dear baby H, two year molars, a new job, moving out of state, losing our family pets, and essentially starting over. There is no denying the amount of crazy that went down in that time frame but I am thankful for the knowledge gained from those experiences. Most importantly, *I* learned what it means to minister within your own community and how to ask for and receive help. Humility is beautiful.

I was so enmeshed in the joy of turkey day and cooking that I failed to take snapshots of our individual dishes but our menu looked something like this:

Thanksgiving 2011

 Greenburg Smoked Turkey

Creamy Mashed Potatoes

Sausage apple cranberry dressing

Fresh Corn

Greenbeans from grandpa's garden

Cranberry Compote
Sweet Potato Casserole with Toasted Marshmallows
Homemade Crescent rolls

H takes mashed potatoes seriously

 My brother flew  into town over the holiday, he's a good little brother and I often miss his quiet presence. I don't see him often due to the demands of college on the East Coast and his military career, so our time together is extra special. He got a kick out of being called "Uncle", by his eldest nephew for the first time. Here are some pictures of him on our post turkey walk along the Paducah flood walls.

 

 

3 generations of men; Grandpa, son, grandsons.

Choo-Choo
All Aboard
next stop 
Christmas

Fruit for Thought and a Serial Killer

 Grabbing a pomegranate out of the fridge I began to remark how beautiful the garnet gem appeared, quite frankly it was attractive, sexy. I vaguely remembered reading about it in the Bible so I looked up the passage and it looks like God intended it to be that way.

Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine has budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened, and the pomegranates are in bloom: there will I give you my loves. - Song of Solomon 7:12

What a neat revelation, Amen! Then after a moment of reflection I violently hacked it. Why I busted out the unnecessarily giant knife, we may never know.

Look, Blood Juice Splatter!

Mmm, yummy! Take a picture.

... the gruesome scene reminded me that I'm 2 seasons behind on Showtime's drama Dexter- simply summarized, "a likeable Miami police forensics expert moonlights as a serial killer of criminals who he believes have escaped justice."- IMDB

The moral of this story is pomegranates are awesome, I'm easily distracted, and it should be illegal to blog at midnight.

Have a great weekend,
Me