Christmas 2019

Celebrating Christmas Family style!

My Christmas dishes(years in the making)

Creamy shrimp scampi dip

Our family!

Another year has passed and I may say “way too fast”!

Our 5 grandchildren

Nathan helped me make the board. (I had all the ingredients ready to go)!

Lots of good stuff!

Our beautiful granddaughters.

Nate

Merry Christmas and a safe, healthy, happy and peaceful 2020.

Christmas 2018

Another year to be grateful for life.  God is so good and whatever your faith you must remember that life it a gift so don't take it for granted.

My yearly family dinner is always the best.  My children and grandchildren have grown and it's been a long time since those days of having small ones around so excited for Santa.  I'm now looking forward to grandbabies. Such a wonderful thought!

We had a wonderful few hours having fun and laughing like crazy.  Sometimes at my expense but they love to tease me.

Below is a recap in photos.  A little whipped today and will take it easy.  I realize I am getting older by how my body is aching but I do love doing all of it so I'm not complaining.  Merry Christmas and Happy and Blessed New Year 2019.



Every year I try to do less and enjoy more but I’m the energizer bunny when the holidays come.  I start early with a good list and do what I can do in small jobs.

12/26/18

Our Thanksgiving 2019

Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours.

I am so thankful for the gift of being with our family on Thanksgiving.

Our daughter hosted as she enjoys this holiday the most.

She made everything including dessert since I was a little under the weather.

I did manage to make creamy rice pudding.  A recipe of my Mom’s.

All but one of our grandchildren are adults and the baby Is 16 so  Thanksgiving gets to be more and more about time spent with family since all will be out of the nest come 2020.

Below are a few of the food items that we were blessed to be able to eat on this day of appreciation and gratefulness.

It was a wonderful day!

Ps.  Gone are the days of dressing up for dinner!  Everyone prefers casual attire.

Since the tree was up, family photo opportunity.

Our 2018 Thanksgiving

11/29/18

Rewind to 2018!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with our daughter and her family.  Her in laws came for a visit which was wonderful.

Great food, interesting conversation and how blessed I feel to be able to share another Thanksgiving with you.

That's our middle grandson Nate, home from college(Rennsealear Polytechnic Institute who gave me a thumbs up about the Strawberry pretzel salad I made.  I also made an apple pie and her mother in law brought a pumpkin and peach pie.  Everything was delicious.

  So proud of our daughter taking on the challenge of Thanksgiving dinner.  She is not an enthusiastic cook like her mom but steps up when necessary.  The turkey, stuffing, potatoes, sweet potatoes and gravy were perfect.  She kept it simple which worked out fine.  Sometimes basic traditional foods are the best choice for busy holidays.  Being in your comfort zone helps you enjoy time with your friends and family.  

From the left, Dan our son in law, our grandson Daniel home from Penn State, our daughter, our grandson Nate and our youngest grandson Andrew a sophomore in high school.

Hoping your Thanksgiving was wonderful.  Blessings and love to all.