Archive for November, 2005

Thanksgiving Praises

Friday, November 25th, 2005 by Alyice

Yesterday was our first Thanksgiving in South Dakota and we had a wonderful time eating and playing games.

I started the morning by calling my mother to wish her a Happy Thanksgiving. It was nine in the morning our time, which meant it was seven in the morning her time. I knew she’d be up because she always gets up early to cook her famous, brown bag turkey. Oh, how I’ll miss that turkey, I thought to myself as the phone rang.

She answered the phone with, “Happy Thanksgiving!”

“I’m packing everything up to go to your sister’s house this morning; she wants to learn how to cook!” I nearly fell off my chair when I heard. It’s hard to believe, but my sister is thirty-three years old and has never prepared anything for Thanksgiving dinner.

My mom said she still didn’t believe it was true until my sister confirmed her desire the night before, “Mom if you prepare the turkey at your house, how am I going to learn to cook it?”

We didn’t talk about much, but it was nice to hear her voice and hear the hustle and bustle around the house, as she packed everything up to head on over to my sister’s. I’m glad she won’t be alone for the holidays, I said to myself as I hung up the phone.

We then commenced to clean the house and prepare our own Thanksgiving meal. My husband stayed up all night smoking a turkey. I cooked all our favorites: Gram’s nut bread and dirty pudding, mom’s green bean soup and potato salad, and marshmallow yams. My son made orange mashed potatoes, and my mother-in-law brought her famous, flaky crust apple and pumpkin pies. She also taught me how to make her deviled eggs.

Speaking of my mother-in-law, she showed up with a dozen long-stem yellow and peach roses in her hands, and a handwritten note that said, “We love you here!”

The note, combined with the fact that she subtly reminded us that she hasn’t forgotten the child we lost by making sure the roses were yellow (our symbol of remembrance for our precious little girl), set in concrete the fact that we made the right decision—the decision to move closer to my husband’s parents and live in small town, South Dakota.

We spent the day playing Tripoley and Texas Hold ‘Em, listening to my daughter play her flute and my son play his trumpet, and laughing with each other. It was a beautiful day full of many thanksgivings…

We were thankful for so many things. Things like:

a happy marriage,
wonderful no-hassle children,
the good health of our children,
long-distance family and those close by,
friends far and near,
the new job that led us here and the good pay my husband receives,
a beautiful rental house and great landlords,
our new chiropractor who is putting my hip back in place and the pain that seems to lessen with each visit,
really being fed the word of God through the new church we attend,
and yes, for my business as it carried us through so many financial storms.

But I think one of the greatest things we are thankful for is to live in a country where we have the freedom to share our faith with others. I pray that right never gets taken away, because without it, America just wouldn’t be America.

Give thanks…

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