Turkey Time

Well, it's Tuesday evening here at the Ausherman house. Eryn in finishing her dinner in her pj's which she donned as soon as she got home from school. Jerry is looking at the news on his computer after a morning of subbing in High School Algebra and the afternoon working in his workshop. Kaytie is in Gentry at her Teens for Christ Tuesday night meeting. And, obviously, I'm blogging! The Baum family didn't join us for dinner this evening due to their group cancelling the meeting tonight, I 'm guessing because it is Thanksgiving week. The Baum's are also getting things ready to head out to Illinois tomorrow to spend the holidays with Sarah's parents and siblings.

Thanksgiving will be spent here at home, it being just the 4 of us, Christmas will be celebrated in the same way. No money to head East and extended family having other plans deems this necessary. We will make it fun in our own way though. I was thinking about it the other day and I realized that I don't have to clean the house for company, we can have our celebration meal anytime of the day that we want and I can fix as little or as much as I want. I tried to talk everyone into going to Cracker Barrel for the Thanksgiving meal, you wouldn't believe the uprising! Oh well, I guess I will go ahead and cook the 12 pound turkey I have in the freezer. They don't make them any smaller, I checked!

The Sager Creek cast party went well, they ended up coming here to the house to eat. I liked it better than taking everything to the theater. I was able to keep the food warm and pamper them a whole lot more than I could have if we had held it at the theater. They brought a couple of bottles of wine with them which I was OK with. The bad thing was, our cork screw broke while trying to open the second bottle. I guess we need to invest in something a little nicer than a WalMart special!

With this being Thanksgiving week I figured that I wouldn't have anything to cater until the Red Hatter's Christmas Party on the 6th, but I was wrong. I received a call last night from a lady I know from First Christian church here in Siloam who asked me to make a lemon cheesecake for her kids that are coming in for Thanksgiving dinner. I happily agreed, this will be a new adventure, I've never made a lemon one before! I found three different recipes and decided on one that I will still have to tweak to make it what I want it to be. It should be interesting.

In the last few weeks it has dawned on me that I am not nearly as thankful as I should be. I have been blessed in so many ways and I take all of it for granted. My husband and children are healthy and safe, I have a home that I love (the house and the area), there is meat in the freezer and canned goods in the pantry. Those are things that I consider needs, but what I have been blessed with doesn't stop there. I have that part of my family that lives just across the state line that loves and cares for me and my family in innemerable ways, friends and aquaintances that make life interesting each day and an activity list filled with things that I love to do. Who am I to complain? But even bigger than that, why would God allow me to have all of this? He gives even though we end up wanting more. He meets every need and yet we never seem to be satisfied with the bounty He pours out on us. I realize it is the flesh, the sinful nature, that is always desiring more, but is the spirit that willing to overcome that part of us? If it is, I need to tap into the Power that will make my spirit more successful!

Happy Thanksgiving, in every sense of the word!