The Day Before Thanksgiving

So, I know I missed writing last night. I sat down and it was blank. I stared at the computer and finally gave up on writing a blog. There was nothing there.

Today is the day before Thanksgiving. I'm working from home and boiling caramel as I type this. The sweet dog is just chilling. He got neutered yesterday and I'm pretty sure all of his anesthesia has worn off!

I'm making a caramel pie for Thanksgiving tomorrow, however I've been eating on one since Sunday. The Vernon Thanksgiving was cancelled, so I made my pie for my community group Sunday night and unfortunately had some left overs. I had caramel pie for lunch today! Whoo-Hoo!

I was thinking back on Thanksgivings of past and thinking how some of them were kind of weird. We had a 3 year period where something crazy was going on, and I remember for a few years afterwards, praying for a normal Thanksgiving.

Obviously, hands down, the best Thanksgiving was the one where Shelby came home from the hospital the night before Thanksgiving. She'd been in there for three weeks and it was somewhat last minute that she was discharged the day before Thanksgiving. Pop cooked up a turkey real fast and mom bought all of the Betty Crocker tubs of sides and we had Thanksgiving at Shelby and Johns house and we had so much to be thankful for that year. I still remember Caroline's cute little Thanksgiving shirt that Shelby got at the outlet mall in Destin a few months prior. She was so precious!

The next year was my grandmother having a stroke and mom and dad spent Thanksgiving at the hospital with her and the following year was when dad spent Thanksgiving in the hospital after developing an infection.

So, to say the least, I'm thankful for any type of normal Thanksgiving!