We’re talking Homemade Magic today.💖 Do come along, won’t you? MUSICA!
Thought I would talk about the magic of this season . . . We’re all going to be making some this next week (and month)!
We’re cooking up some magic at home and taking it to a friend’s house for Thanksgiving this year! I’m making my heavenly Pumpkin Cheesecake (you can make this gluten free by making one change in the recipe, use gluten-free ginger snaps for the crust, and voila!)
I’m also making my Sweet Potato Casserole ⬆️ a wonderful recipe which I sometimes serve in mini pumpkins . . . 
But this time I’m just baking it in a casserole dish so it’s easier for travel. (Like my apron? Quite the garment! No mistaking the holiday!)🎃
I’m also providing the cranberry sauce which I almost force them to let me do because I love this simple recipe so much, to me it sparkles ~ plus I’ll make extra for my must-have-for-the-holidays, Christmas Jam. Both recipes are below:
I get to jump over it this year, because they are making the turkey!
And we’ll taste someone else’s “idea” of stuffing 😱 but we’ll be brave, it’s good for us, makes us better people. But Joe has gathered the ingredients to add some extra gravy to the general good.
I’m not making Rainbow Jell-O this year because we’ll be all adults (and one new baby!) but if you’re having kids at your table, this is a wonderful recipe for them to put in their forever memory banks. It’s kid food, and they know it and I believe, feel grateful for it. But trust me, big kids like it too! 
This was our dinner last year, the leftovers looked almost as good as when we put the dinner on the table! We tried to make enough for every one to have leftovers to-go!
I thought you might like a few photos of Holidays-passed, of some of my decorated table ideas . . .
This was a casual dinner we had at the kitchen table using my old mix-and-match pottery collection, and the antique black-iron candlesticks I found somewhere along the way. (No marks on the bottom of these, I’m sorry to say, would love to tell you where they come from!)
Candlelight makes everything look better! More romantic, prettier colors, softer light, the food even tastes better in candlelight! And a little poem or a prayer written on a menu stand helps to set the tone. Because Thanksgiving is so wonderfully about gratitude and memory.
Cookbooks, wooden spoons, and recipe boxes (with mom and grandma’s handwriting on recipe cards) make evocative Thanksgiving table decorations. I love using stuff I have around the house. A table with lots of little framed 
photos works too. Makes for lots of happy conversation. Also, you can make placemats out of old photos (enlarge on copier), that’s fun too ~ you can even use them as place cards, “find your photo and that’s where you sit”. (I’ve forgotten to take pictures of my table settings in the past, I try not to let that happen anymore!)
Pile together a few of your favorite things, collections, or family memories, interesting things to look at that relate to you and yours . . . the little shoes, remember from my book? I wrote how I found them in the attic at Holly Oak, left behind by Agnes, my secret guardian angel. Now there she is, on our Thanksgiving table.
More found objects . . . Leaves and pinecones make perfect place cards!
Small low vases of flowers are good too, you can see over them! See the candlestick with the star bobeche? I found those bobeche years ago and LOVE them, I bring them out any time I need a starry night!🕯
I always use them for the holidays, but in the summer too, under the stars . . .
I looked for them for years to put in our web store, but never found them. Off and on, I’ve managed to get people to make them for us, but they’ve been very hard to get. See how you set the bobeche on top of the candle stick?⬆️
And then the candle slips through the hole and into the stick ~ 🕯
Voila! Anyway, I finally found a new manufacturer! And this time I had them made from lightweight acrylic, just like the ones I found so many years ago. In case you need some starry light on your holiday tables!🕯
Bobeche! Here’s how they look without the candles. And, something special, to celebrate this wonderful season . . .
For YOU! YES, leave a comment at the end of this post, and we’ll have a drawing, and see who is going to be the winner of this pair of starry bobeche!
I love it when they play Little Women on TV on Thanksgiving. It’s such perfect background “music.” Reminds me of simpler days and the things that really matter. The smell of dinner cooking is enough to set the entire mood of the day. And isn’t it wonderful, it’s not about gifts?! Only the little ones that really count. Like home. And P.S. Something special for PLU (people like us) . . . LOOK what’s coming this Christmas! 
Because magic can come in very small packages. It doesn’t have to be fancy. All this decorating is nice, if you have the time, and are in the mood, but there are no rules. Just one little pumpkin on a porch or a kitchen table is lovely and festive and says it all. That, a roasted chicken, a baked apple, a little candle, and a prayer is all we need.
And the day after Thanksgiving, while filled to overflowing with gratitude and contentment and pumpkin pie, and blessed by everything we have, feed your soul in nature on Green Friday. I fear we are teaching our children greed by celebrating consumerism the day after Thanksgiving. Instead, teach magic, take your spirit and your kids to the sky . . .
Because God made the dirt roads, the woods, and the critters and gave them to us has His gift. And it’s our job to take care of them for Him. Honor them for Him.
Quiet places with wind and bird sounds fill your heart with thanks and wash the stress away. (Would you like to read my Love Letter to Martha’s Vineyard? In your spare time!)
A wonderful gift from the sea, free! And we didn’t have to stand in line under klieg lights to get it!
The pause that refreshes. The sound of snowfall is good for you!
The gift that keeps on giving. Other things to do besides 
hugging trees that cause magic: have a turkey-sandwich, pumpkin-pie picnic outside, or surprise the lady down the street and have your whole family go to her house and plant bulbs. (I’ll give you my address!) Bring someone who’s stuck inside OUT, and take them to nature. Adopt a new petty pet! 💖 Or,
Cuddle in front of a fire . . .
Dreaming of a better tomorrow? Let it show in everything you do.💞 We are so lucky!
Here’s a Thanksgiving Prayer bookmark, for you to print out, just click there. I’ve memorialized the childhood prayer Joe “sang” to me when we first met. (Suzy, Nosey, Inky, and so on, were his family’s pets!❤️)
And don’t forget to leave a comment for the starry bobeches. Blessings on you and yours darling friends! Have the MOST wonderful Thanksgiving.🎃 
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU AND JOE! And of course to that sweet baby kitty too. I hope you all have a glorious holiday week. Here in Kentucky we will have turkey and ham and all the fixings….thank you Sue for making my day seem a lot brighter with your post. I am from the old school that still says –
Merry Christmas and Happy Thanksgiving and Happy New Year!!!!!
Love you and can’t wait on the new book, when will it be published?
thx,
Kathy in Kentucky
Happy Thanksgiving Kathy! New Book, in the new year, sometime, my wrist slows me down these days! xoxo
Your blog is beautiful as usual. Happy thanksgiving to you and joe. Can’t wait to see your Christmas blog!
Happy Thanksgiving!
I love your books and artwork. Thank you for this chance to win the starry bobeches, they are so pretty!
Amy
Thank you for reminding me that having guests and being hospitable is a gift! This post makes me look forward to getting ready for the crowd coming rather than freaking out about how I’ll get it all done. Thanksgiving blessings to you!
Thanks for this little nugget of happiness!!! I love the idea of Green Friday and being raised on a farm my grandfather always taught us ‘if you take care of the land; the land will take care of you’. 😊 The other day I found an old copy of the book Mrs. Miniver (one of my favorite old movies) Now I can’t wait to finish what I’m reading to read it. Love having minor problems. May you and Joe have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!
Dear Susan and Joe:
These little writings you post here are a gift to my soul. Filled with a positive outlook on life as the gift from God that it is. Always a sweet reminder to slow down and treasure the most important things, which are not things but people. May Jesus bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you His perfect peace. May He do this for every person in our world. Happy Thanksgiving to you both.
Jennifer, from Saratoga Beach, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Pick Me ! . . . Pick Me ! . . . lol 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving Joe & Susan and stay well, the world needs you !
Linda C. of So Cal 🙂
Always a breathe of fresh air! Thanksgiving blessings y’all!
Thank you for this beautiful post, Susan. I needed this today, feeling frazzled!
Happy Thanksgiving Susan and Joe!
I get to host this year and will be making your cranberries and Christmas jam! In fact I may make the jam for Christmas presents for the neighbors this year! I always like to make something homemade at Christmas – thanks for the inspiration!
Enjoy and be blessed…..
Lynda
I love Thanksgiving, Fall, Little Women, cooler weather. I love it all!!
Susan,
Kudos to you, and your mention of Green Friday. Sending Merry Holiday Wishes
your way.
Hello Susan, I will never forget finally getting to meet you at your signing for the “Autumn” book in Coconut Grove with my sister. You and all of your books are treasures! Everything you do contains magic and a sweetness the world needs. Thank You and Happiest of Thanksgivings to you and yours! jenni 🍁🧡🍁
How nice to hear from you Jenni! Thank you, Happy Thanksgiving! xoxo
Baking cornbread for cornbread oyster dressing today. Sat down for a breather and here was your blog! Was a very good read. Happy Thanksgiving, Susan!🦃 🦃 🦃
I love seeing the way you set your table. For the past several years, we always travel to someone else’s home for Thanksgiving and Christmas. If we want to see family, we are the ones that have to travel. So I never get to really decorate a table for those holidays. But we love our families so it’s not an option. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours and may we all be thankful for our love ones.
Happy Thanksgiving Susan and Joe🐔🐔🐔🐔
I love reading your posts. They’re so warm and homey and next-door-neighborly. I truly hope you and Joe have a beautiful Thanksgiving!
To me there is something amazingly beautiful about fall, it brings back wonderful childhood memories of the colors of the foliage in the mountains of western N.C. where I grew up, the smell of burning leaves and fires in the fireplace. I just love the coziness of it all. Not to mention the food! I hope you and all of your family have a great Thanksgiving. Our kitten Ted sends special Thanksgiving wishes to Jack!🐱
Blessings to you and Joe. Thank you for all the joy you have given your readers.
Mindy
Oh Susan, Your timing is always just right. Family starting to come in for thanksgiving tonight and I have been cleaning and cooking for a couple of days. I had to stop and have a little tea and me time and lookie what i found! A new blog post. How lovely to be reminded of how special this time really is when i was getting ready to get a touch cynical and cranky and maybe a tiny bit tired.
Your the best!
That Little women trailer looks most interesting! Reminds me of the style that Anne with and E ( Netflix) is filmed in. Yay!
Enjoy your day of thankfulness with friends. WE are ALL thankful for you dear Sue!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you for this chance to win the beautiful starry bobeches!
Amy
Thanksgiving Blessings to you and Joe. I would love that Pumpkin Cheesecake, but how would I manage it all on my own, for I am the only person here that I know who enjoys pumpkin pie or cheesecake. So, I make small things with pumpkin instead, such as my spiced white chocolate drink with 1/4 cup pumpkin in the mix! A hot chocolate drink that is good for you! One of your daily servings of veg. Yum! Double yum!
I am really enjoying listening to the Brandenburg Concerto. Good choice! I love classical music, and it’s just perfect in the run up to Thanksgiving and then Christmas. I have been listening to Tchaikovsky for days now.
I shall look forward with eager anticipation to the {yet another} remake of Little Women, but nothing will ever stop me from wishing that someone would take up the cause and turn Little Men and Jo’s Boys into a film or two.
~~~Waving~~~From Across the Pond~~~Deb in Wildly Woolly Wuthering Wet and Windy Wonderful West Wales xoxo
When I think about what I am Thankful for this week, I will most assuredly will be counting you on my list. You bring LIGHT and WARMTH to me, and I am very thankful for that. Please have a great Thanksgiving, and kiss that handsome little mustache man for me. I’ll bet his little nose is sniffing. ♥ =^..^= ♥
I’ll be happy to do that for you!🙀
Happy Thanksgiving, Susan and Joe. Thank you for sharing the beauty in your corner of the world. Your posts always bring a smile to my face.
Happy Thanksgiving! We will be going out for a buffet at a restaurant with THE most beautiful view of our Oregon coast. I had hand surgery so cooking is out, but am looking forward to doing it up right for Christmas.
Those stars reflect the candlelight and make the whole table sparkle!❤️
Happy Thanksgiving! I’m really looking forward to having family and friends here for Thanksgiving. You always inspire me to have Ali it’ll more fun with holidays and notice the little touches more. I am thankful for you!!!!
I love the starry bobeches. I hope Vanna will draw my name. 😁 Happy Thanksgiving!
I had no idea there would be a new Little Women movie coming out. Thanks for letting us know. Also love the star bobeches, so festive.
Dear Susan, darling friend to so many, this blog post is EXACTLY what I wished for to boost my weekend-before-Thanksgiving in the proper direction! Thank you so much for so many reasons xoxoxo This quote you gave us is just one reason: “Just one little pumpkin on a porch or a kitchen table is lovely and festive and says it all. That, a roasted chicken, a baked apple, a little candle, and a prayer is all we need.” (and how I love that you illustrated this with a picture of Holly Oak’s front door in Autumn)! Bunches of those hearts you are sending up and out from the House of Creativity are coming back to you filled with hugs from us girlfriends. Happy Thanksgiving Sue & Joe & Jack
😘😘😘 Happy Thanks Giving Christie! xoxoxo
Your beautiful pictures inspire me and reading your words always bring me comfort and joy! So excited to be trying a few of these recipes soon! Happy Thanksgiving!
Beautiful pictures of happy memories! Thanksgiving is best spent with family and friends!
Okay, this post just put me totally in the holiday spirit!! Love it! Here’s hoping that you and Joe have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!
Happy Thanksgiving❣❤ Thank you for the new blog….it is always a special gift to The Girlfriends, and I greatly love and appreciate it❣❤ Your plans sound wonderful for your dinner, and I hope you have the best day. We are just three this year, but we are having our traditional , table-groaning feast with everything…lol. We still decorate and have fun together….it is a good thing we LIKE each other.🤣 The only thing I worry and panic about is the gravy…just as you mentioned. It always works out great, but I stress about it every year….probably because we only have gravy once a year, so I never feel practiced! Hugs and blessings to you dear Susan❣❤
Dear Susan, I love your blog and read it faithfully – it is always full of great ideas. The candle bobeche in your Thanksgiving post made me think of something I’ve done for a few years at holiday time. I bought “crystal” (clear plastic) stars, icicles, snowflakes, and small strands of dangley crystals at Michael’s or Hobby Lobby and I hang them with very thin clear fishing wire from the arms of my dining room chandelier, at varying heights. It’s fun and festive, and I’m thinking the bobeche on my candle sticks will carry out the theme. Thank you for another fun idea, and Happy Thanksgiving to you, Joe, and kitty Jack!
Thanks so much for your blog. With all of the division and dissention going on, it helps me to step back, breathe and, as you said, be reminded of simpler days and the things that really matter.
We also celebrate Green Friday with a long walk on a local rail trail….no shopping! Right now I’m getting the grocery list ready for the thanksgiving recipes and having the gang home for the weekend. Can’t wait!!! & then Boom, December/Christmas will be here. I plan on enjoying the holidays without the stress and rush. Best to you and Joe 🙂
I Walk around the lake in my hometown just before sunrise with my dogs each day. It is so quiet with just the ducks and song birds waking up and then there is the sunrise to fill me with warm joy. It is a great way to start the day.
Happy Thanksgiving-beautiful post-thank you
Beautiful pictures of past memories! Happy thanksgiving 🦃 and best wishes!
I would LOVE to add those stars to my candle sticks!! happy thanksgiving!! From Sunny Southern California!!
Happy Thanksgiving Susan and Joe. All your decorations and festive recipes look wonderful. Here in Canada, Thanksgiving was in October and we feasted very well. I always get out my Autumn book, the recipes are sooo good, but the tablecloth on the cover of Sunbonnet Sue and her kitty is my favourite.
Dear Susan,
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe. Thank you for your wonderful blog. I look forward to them because they remind me of the important things in life especially at this very volatile time in our country. We are on our way up to Vermont for the closing on a log home we bought. After 44 years in our home in Ohio we decided it was time to be nearer to our daughter and son-in-law. This definitely will be a Thanksgiving to remember!
How exciting!
Dear Sue and Joe,
Thank you sooooooo much for this heartfelt greeting. I will definiteky be making the sweet-potato casserole, and the cranberries so I can try the cranberry jam) Wishing you both, and everyone else reading this a Happy Thanksgiving, or a wonderful day if you don’t celebrate Thanksgiving where you are.
If Welsh Debs at” being my happy ” reads this I’d love it if she would reply with her recipe for her Christmas bara brith for this proud Welsh American, or put it on her blog.
Still hoping to make it to Martha’s Vineyard, almost did this fall. Love enjoying it vicariously through you.
Love Sue
Thank you for sharing your magic (holiday and otherwise)! I’ll pass it on the best I can.
Boy, does that Rainbow Jell-O recipe bring back memories! There was always a Jell-O dish at our family Thanksgiving dinners and I thought they were so very pretty too! Thanks for the memories ! ! !
I love getting your newsletters/blog. Wish I could have bought every single one of your products when I first discovered you back in the day…I think your Christmas from Heart of the Home was my first purchase. Love all your work!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones, Dear Susan! I always enjoy your blog posts — they are a treasure for the eyes and ears.
Wishing you and Joe a blessed Thanksgiving!
Melin
Happy, happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe and the kitties. We are blessed to have you.
Happy Thanksgiving! I love seeing the pictures of how you decorate for the seasons. You truly inspire me!
Thanksgiving Magic, indeed! Thank you, Susan, for this much needed, much appreciated respite from the outside world! Your quotes, stories, and pictures are all beautifully inspirational. I’m reminded again of what’s really important and the gifts of home life. Your contributions to the world are so valuable! Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe waaay over there on the other side of the country! 🦃🍂🧡
Happy, Happy Thanksgiving. I love the placque in your photo with the “church in the wildwood” lyrics. One of my favorites! Thanks for the lovely blog post.
Happy Thanksgiving! Love to see your autumnal tables–wonderful inspiration for the festive days to come! (Including that movie PLU are looking forward to!!!)
What sweet inspiration today…LOVELY. I was astounded by the size of that tree…with you hugging it, you really get some perspective! Happy Thanksgiving!
Oh Susan….on these surreal days where we need good to climb over evil, for truth to be our strength, light help pierce darkness, what happens? A new luvley blog from you! Your timing is priceless! I will save today’s blog to read later today, but wanted to say thank you, I appreciate you, keep spreading absolute joy, art, love, friendship, beauty, warmth……
and yes! watch old movies on TCM, sing at the top of your lungs, and revel in the
“Readies” to prepare for Thanksgiving…..and another thing I adore you for – every day is Thanksgiving to you – you always remind us of the absolute beauty of our friends, family, critters…..love love love,
Regina,Seattle where it is foggy, cold, and cozy
As always and forever, wonderful to hear from you Regina! xoxo
Have a blessed thanksgiving to you and Joe! We are traveling to be with dear friends and attend a memorial service for one of them…..so thanksgiving will be a mixed bag this year…..missing our family at home in Iowa, but supporting and celebrating our friends in Arizona! Hugs and Love to you!
Prayers for you and yours Sheri. xoxo
Thanks for the Thanksgiving blog. I love to read your thoughts and see your pictures. And we certainly have so much for which to be thankful! Happy Thanksgiving to you.
What a beautiful post with star-y candle sparkles and sea glass. I love the candle light and your comfy pictures. Thank you Susan.
Happy Thanksgiving !!! I’m getting to go out of town (a cabin overlooking a lake) with my daughter and husband and granddaughter’s. I’m cooking and I’m so happy!! Sh
Well I love hearing that!!! We all do! xoxo
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Thank you for this lovely opportunity to possibly win loveliness! Blessings!
Your blog is a welcome bit of joy and a nice diversion from the news of the day. It transports me to a place that is warm, inviting and serene. Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Thank you for the lovely thoughts, shared traditions, Green Friday ideas, ways of sharing kindness and love for the holidays and always.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING SUSAN
Your food looks very appetizing. Wishing you and yours a Blessed and Happy Holiday. Thank You for the giveaway.
Marion
Happy Thanksgiving, Susan, Joe and Jack. Just reading your blog made my mouth water and stomach growl! Holiday food is memories solidified. Thanks always for sharing your magical, love filled life with us !
Thanksgiving blessings to you, Susan.
Can’t wait for Little Women!! Yea!
Your blog always hits the spot for me!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING 🦃 My favorite time of the year. Autumn leaves, great food with family and friends, sweaters, scarves and knitting in front of the fireplace!!! Looking forward to the new book and movie!! 😍 Glad to hear your wrist is much better. You must be able to shoot those bands for that handsome kitty boy!!!! Best wishes 🎃 🧶
I can! One of my first things to do again, he was waiting!
Happy Thanksgiving to you & Joe! A “Susan” post always brightens my day!
Hugs!
Susan, your blog is on my gratitude list. Each time I read it I feel happiness and “dream a little dream or two.” Happy Thanksgiving to you, Joe and Jack.
Happy thanksgiving to you! Love your beautiful posts with all your glorious art work. Thank you for the opportunity to win the starry candlestick holders
One of the things I am most thankful for this season, and every season, is you. Your artwork and talent…the way you share your life with us. You are indeed a blessing and we are so lucky to call you our girlfriend .
It goes both ways Linda, happy happy Thanksgiving!
Thank You Susan for this lovely giveaway. The prize is lovely. Have a Blessed Thanksgiving.
Joan
Thank you, Susan! Just reading yourblogs makes me feel so thankful for all I have. They also make me more hopeful for our future! 💜
I love reading your blog! Thanks for sharing!
Happy Thanksgiving! Gobble till you Wobble!
Love your blog because I love everything about you and your creative self! I envy those who get to enjoy you personally. Blessed are they! Happy Thanksgiving!
❌⭕️ Sally in Atlanta
Happy Thanks Giving dear Sally . . .
Happy Thanksgiving! The number of faces around our Arkansas table is shrinking, but we will still celebrate with all the old recipes and the old dishes and silver. To me, it’s like having those we’ve lost at the table in a small way. Love the starry night candles, I always get excited about your creative suggestions.
Greetings from sunny Northern California with a home that has the magic fragrance of apple cider donuts in the air. I used your recipe this very morning and delicious donuts were the result. Thank you for inspiring me to try making something I have never made before. Your blog is always a wonderful surprise when I check e-mail. Thank you for taking the time to include us in your happy thoughts and pictures of this gratitude giving season.
How fun Marsha! Aren’t they wonderful? Thank you for letting me live in your warm kitchen vicariously! xoxo
Have a blessed Thanksgiving, Sue and Joe! Thanks for reminding us about what’s important…
Susan – I wait anxiously for each of your blog entries. This one is especially special. I enjoy your photos of nature – on your walks. Sea Glass is one of my favorite things. Hope you have a great Thanksgiving and keep up the good work – hope the wrist cooperates. thanks
A gray overcast day. A lovely cup of tea. A bowl of my new favorite snack…cinnamon and brown sugar Harvest Snaps! Impossible to believe that cinnamon sugar and baked red lentil crisps could work…but they do! After spending snippets of time with you and Joe in Prescott, AZ I can honestly say that the world is a better place with you both in it. And, oh, how thankful I am for that!
Thank you so much Jenny . . . Prescott is such a lovely place! Those Harvest Snaps sound good!
Wishing you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving. I’m gratefully sitting on my couch in front of the fireplace on a very dark wet day. Here’s to the small comforts and presents of life. I never take them for granted.
Thank you once again, Susan. Have a happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. I will spend Green Friday outside at Wupatki National Monument in Arizona hiking among the Old Ones!
Perfection!❤️
Susan I love the recipes. I am going to print them out. Thank You for this beautiful blog. The giveaway is lovely.
HAPPY BLESSED THANKSGIVING
Marilyn
Susan, I am thankful that I found your books SO many years ago. They have travelled with me from house to house and additional ones have been gifted to friends and family over the years. You are a very talented woman and have a gift for sharing. Thank you!
I’m grateful for you, Susan and Joe! Happy Thanksgiving from Kansas!
Happy Thanksgiving, Susan and Joe 🍁🦃🧡
What a wonderful treat to open my email and find a letter from you, inspiring me for Thanksgiving. Lots of love to you! Anita
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe! Everything sounds so yummy… your feast will be one to remember! Have you had snow yet, or was that a picture of Joe from last year? We are still waiting here in Westchester Cty. NY… There’s magic in that first snowfall, and I can’t wait! This is truly my favorite time of the year… Comfort food, fires, candles, coziness, hot tea or chocolate, and family and friends to share it all with… Happy Holidays to all our Girlfriends!
No snow yet, that was a picture from last year. Yes, anticipation is a wonderful thing!
Love all things “starry “ crossing my fingers to get some Bobeches! Keep up your newsletter..I love my email the day it comes!!
Holly Schelin (my holly-day season is coming!!)
I love family traditions that go down to the fourth generation. Our Thanksgiving one is watching “White Christmas” on Thanksgiving night as we eat turkey sandwiches. Even the little ones can say upcoming lines with the best of them! So thankful to have close family that wants to keep these things going. It’s a real blessing. Thank you for all the wonderful Thanksgiving treats in this blog! Have a blessed day.
Hi Susan, a colleague was chatting with me today about an upcoming trip she is planning to England and also her family Thanksgiving dinner. Your name came up twice! She is borrowing my copy of “A Fine Romance” and also your wonderful gravy recipe! I am happy to share you with my younger friends!! Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe!
Thank you Carolyn! xoxo
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe and all the friends who share it with you! And Happy Green Friday. I am luckier than Shel Silverstein because I have not had to make all of my own magic. You make magic for me. Thank you!!!!!
Ohhhh, you sweet thing! xoxo❤️
Oh yes and I forgot drinking a copy of tea!
Happy thanksgiving to your family and friends!
Thanks for the wonderful post. My partner and I will be traveling to see my dad this year; he isn’t doing well, and the drs. say this will be his last Thanksgiving. I say – what do doctors know? But still, we want to make this a good one. Everyone has come together, even the grumpiest have softened, and it is truly a beautiful thing. I remember this when we were losing my mother, how in the midst of the worst time we’d ever encountered as a family, there were moments of such beauty and joy and love. It was all around us. As it is now! So we plan to enjoy it, and make some memories. And stuff ourselves till we need long walks and then naps, with everyone’s favorite things. Sending all the best to Martha’s Vineyard, to you and yours! Oh and P.S. Those starry bobeches are the things I’ve loved most since discovering your site, so sparkly and starry and just beautiful. So I always say, oh I hope someone who LOVES the contest prize wins, but this time, I say I hope that it’s me!
I hope so too Melissa. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Blessings on you all! xoxoxoxo
Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you for the little pic of Jack. Lovely post as always. Love Joe’s prayer.
Cold, dreary, rainy day here until I opened this blog post!🦃😊
Happy Thanksgiving Susan, Joe, & Jack!
Thank you for sharing a bit of yourself with all of us. Your post makes me feel the peace and the gratitude of the season. Bless you!