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Happy Reading!
Linda Joyce
My favorite thing about Thanksgiving is the family getting together and eating and having fun. The book Christmas Bells sounds good.
Debra,
What’s your favorite dish at Thanksgiving? Mine is very mundane. I love mashed potatoes!
Smile,
LJ
The stuffing 🙂
Hello!
My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving!! I love the turkey and all it’s fixings and cooking it all. I have to agree with you on the pumpkin pie though. Give me apple pie or chocolate creme and I’m a happy camper!
Jane,
Apple pie is my most favorite pie! And I love apple cobbler. Dutch Apple Pie. Apple pie with sharp cheddar cheese melted on it.
Smiles,
LJ
My favorite Thanksgiving was 1982, my first as a young married couple and also just a few days after our first son was born. It was the first whole Thanksgiving dinner I made by myself and it was just for us and my parents. I was so weak from an unexplained fever for a week after giving birth, so a lot of it was prepared sitting down. But I was determined to do it all. It turned out fine and I remember being thankful sitting at the dinner table with the 4 people I loved most in the world. I didn’t know at the time that I would only have my dad one more year before he would pass away. So looking back, that Thanksgiving has taken on very special meaning for me over the years. Today there are many more added to my table that I love most in the world, but both parents being gone makes it bittersweet in many ways.
Ellie,
Thank you for sharing your sweet and tender story. I truly understand the bittersweet of the holiday.
Smiles,
LJ
My most memorable Thanksgiving is when my Grandparents came that year. We had such a great time and made a lot of memories. The reason that it is most memorable is because this was the last Thanksgiving we had with my Grandfather. He passed away. I will always treasure the memories I had with him.
Elizabeth,
Thank you for sharing. Your grandfather must have been a terrific man.
Smiles,
LJ
At one of my mother’s last Thanksgivings, my future son-in-law was there without my daughter. She was in college. He was trying very hard to impress and so opened a bottle of wine for me. It was bubbly and it exploded all over everyone nearby including one of my other daughters, my mother and my sister. She laughed about it and it was one of the few times she laughed. I have not read Christmas Bells. Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving and memories of family members now gone always return on the holidays.
Debra,
I give the guy lots of points for trying! And he made your mother laugh!
Must be a good guy to have in the family.
Smiles,
Linda Joyce
My favorite Thanksgiving was the last one I had with my mother before she died….this would’ve been 2010 and we went to a community table Thanksgiving in Aiken, SC….the first one like this either of us had attended. Now whenever Thanksgiving arrives, I will always reflect back on that time we spent so pleasantly together.
Janet,
It’s very interesting how memories trigger emotions, but also have a way of instantly taking us back to a moment in time. Aromas can do that, too. Like roast turkey.
Smiles,
LJ
My family is also not a turkey household, we love ham with a maple syrup glaze. But pumpkin is one of my all time favorite fall
deserts anyway you prepare it. Wishing you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving with lots of love and new memories to share.
Linda, I am so sorry that I forgot to post that I have not had the pleasure of reading your ebook “Christmas Bells”. It sounds wonderful!
Nancy,
Ham with maple syrup glaze… sounds wonderful! I do cook turkey twice a year. At Thanksgiving and again in July. Just for my husband, who loves turkey. 🙂
Smiles,
Linda Joyce
Oh Linda, I did forget!!! Yes I own and have read Christmas Bells!! Another book that makes me smile!
Barbara,
HUGS!
LJ
I love Thanksgiving because it is all about family and good food! I remember as a child I got to help my mother in the kitchen make her delicious stuffing and of course pumpkin pies. I remember sitting around the table, stuffed and happy, with my grandparents. My grandmother always repeated this little poem, a tradition I continue every year:
“The saddest words of tongue or pen are
I’ve eaten too much, AGAIN!”
All the happy Thanksgivings-going home-having my parents to my house-going to my newly married daughter’s house-are wonderful memories. Even the year my daughter got called away to an emergency at work as she took her first bite of dinner ends with the happy memory of her returning home, feeding her and sitting and being with her so she could have a happy thanksgiving as well. These memories are important because we can not predict the future and never know when the people we love will be around us again.
Barbara,
What happy memories you shared. Thank you!
And you’re so right. We never know how life can change minute to minute.
Smiles,
LJ
My favorite Thanksgivings are made up of several from my childhood–for years the entire extended family went to my great-uncle’s farm for the holiday, and there is a collage of fun, good food and just the sense of being a part of a loving family that I am so sorry that many people do not have. As I have become older and my immediate family is no longer as large, and so many of that extended family are gone, we still have a family get-together, but it is no longer as boisterous as before, although just as thankful for the blessings we do have.
clynsg,
You made me smile…yes, a little less boisterous can be good.
All my best,
LJ
I am looking forward to reading Love Around The Table. I one-clicked it. Thank you for the chance to be on your newsletter list. I would love to win a new kindle.
Karen,
Thank you for buying Love Around the Table. I hope you’ll love the book.
Tell me about your favorite Thanksgiving. Do you love Turkey? Pie?
Smiles,
LJ
Thanksgiving is very special. Always look forward to my Mommy’s dressing. Being surround by family. Nothing better.
Lisa,
Tell me, what kind of dressing does she make? I love Oyster dressing. My husband prefers an apple & pecan stuffing. Once we even used peaches instead of apples.
Smiles,
LJ
i’ve never celebrated thanksgiving as I live in the uk
Avril,
Do you have anything similar to Thanksgiving in the UK? I’m half Japanese, and the Japanese don’t have Thanksgiving either, but they have other celebrations that are sort of like it.
Smiles,
LJ
My favorite Thanksgiving is always the upcoming one. Such anticipation, seeing family and friends. We gather together all weekend at 3 family events and cook, eat, and visit until we’re full of food and company. We head out Friday morning for some Black Friday shopping, then head back home for pie and turkey and naps.
Cherie,
I love that your favorite one is always the one coming up. That’s lovely.
Smiles,
LJ