Thanksgiving Dinner, part 2. This year I am a little sad because my aunt who always joins us for holiday meals is not feeling well and is staying home. Her daughters are fixing her Thanksgiving dinner and will be there for her so she won't be alone but it will leave a hole at our table. I am particularly close to this aunt and it is hard to see her get old. In her place we will have Em's boyfriend, his sister and his mother. I like Jim and his sister Colleen. I don't know his mom well so this will give us an opportunity to remedy that. There will be 8 of us around our table, a bit of a tight squeeze but I prefer it that way. It makes us rub elbows with the people who are most important in our lives and remember that we are grateful for them even when they drive us crazy! Kate and I are going out to try to find some folding chairs that won't break the bank so we can comfortably accomodate everyone.

I have one last recipe for you. This is a recipe that I came up with many years ago. We only eat it with our Thanksgiving turkey and it is delicious.

Cornbread and Sausage stuffing
-1 13 x 9 inch pan of cornbread. Make your own or buy it store made. No matter.
-1 tube Bob Evans sausage. You can use any kind of breakfast sausage. If it's links, cut them open to cook the meat.
-1 large onion chopped
-2 stalks celery chopped
- chicken stock
1. Break cornbread up in a large bowl set aside.
2. Cook sausage in a frying pan with the celery and onion
3. Add meat mixture to cornbread and mix thoroughly. Add enough stock to make it moist.
4. Add parsley and season with salt and pepper to taste.

This can be cooked inside the turkey or in a pan in the oven. I usually bake some inside the turkey and the rest in a serving dish for about an hour at 350 degrees.

Kate and I are shortly on our way out as soon as I wash the color that keeps me from looking 50 out of my hair. We all have our vanities.


And because I am trying to have a positve body image and have tried to raise my girls to be proud of their bodies, whatever the shape, here is the pinup photo I had taken for Peter Kevin. I don't look like this in real life. I look like the photo from the birthday post. This was a day for dress up. Someone else did the makeup and hair and posed me . I would have made a terrible model. I hate people messing with my hair. I have debated long and hard with myself on whether I had the guts to post this but somehow today I found the courage. So here I am as a pinup. It's hard to see but that's a garter I am holding in my left hand.

If you celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you have a peaceful one filled with good food and good people. If you don't, have a lovely Thursday. And remember only one month till Christmas.