Thanksgiving

It wasn't how I remember it as a child. I remember getting cramed in the car with all my siblings and driving for what seemed like days.  Sometimes the roads were so bad that we would slide all the way there. And sometimes we would end up in the barrow pit or ditch along side the road. But we always pulled up out side a church in Rigby Idaho, opened the car doors and out we would all fall.  I imagined we smelled pretty aweful, all piled in that car for 13 hours.  The next while seemed like heavens playground. We would run and play with cousins we only saw once a year. The bell would ring and we would meet in  a huge room lined with tables. And the food that was waiting to be gobbled down was beauty to the eye. WOW how could we eat all that? And was there really pleanty to go around? I tryed to savor the delicious food but it was to good. I had to eat fast so I could go back in line for more.  After the gorging, the adults would lie around like stuffed pigs but us kids would run and play.We didnt want it to end.
I ask Donna if thats how she remembered Thanksgivings when she was young.  She brought to my attention that our lives were soooooooooooo boring that that was the highlight of our Autum and Winter season. No wonder it stands out in our minds.
This year at the Reid Home, wasnt so memorable. We cooked, we ate, we sat because we were to misserable to move, we talked (not even about what we are GRATEFUL FOR). I was such in a over stuffed state that I forgot to start the Grateful chant. I kicked myself later. All of our beautiful children were here, Katelyn, Jared and Milo, Axel and his girl friend Cynthia, Wyatt, Quinntana and Rowdy. Brads sister Vera , her husband Ken, sons Spencer , Alex and wife, daughter Melanie with her husband and then there four small boys, the oldest being 5, youngest being 9 months were all here. Rowdy ask, Is this all whos coming?  No one for him to play with. Not a good thing. Then they left. We hauled out the tables and chairs, put the furniture back in its place, and Thanksgiving was over.
I  had something fun to share, so I thought I would share it with you.
I just finished the audible book "It's Never Crowded Along the Extra Mile" by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Thank you Donna for sharing. I highly recommend it to " all" my followeres. (I know there is many)
At the very end of the series, Dr. Dyer shares this.

If we could shrink the earths population to a village and the village had 100 people in it and with all the human nationalities remaining the same, hears what that village would look like.
57 of those 100 would be assion
21 of those 100 would be uropeans
14 of those 100 would be from the western hemispher both north and south
 8 of those 100 would be african
52 of those 100 would be female
48 of those 100 would be male
70                       would be non white
30                        would be white
70                         would be non christian
30                         would be christian
89 of those 100 would be hedrosexual
11 of those 100 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire worlds wealth and all 6 are from the United States.
80 of those 100 would live in substandard housing
70                      would be unable to read
50                       would suffer from malnutrition
1                           would be near death
1                           would be near birth
1                           would have a college education
1     of those 100   would own a computer
GRATITUDE
If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back and a roof over your head and a place to sleep then your richer than 75% of the world.
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed that the million who will not servive this week because of illness.
If you have $ in your bank or wallet and spare change in a dish some place, you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy. 92% of the world dont have that.
If you can attend a church meeting with out fear of arrest, torture, or death, you are more blessed that 3 billion people.
If you have never experienced battle, or lonlyness of imprissonment or the agony of tourcher or paigns of hunger, your ahead of 500 million people.
If your parents are still alive or still married, you are very rare, even in the United States.
Treasure your DIVINITY,  You came from GOD,  You are apart of GOD, GOD is always with You.

First I want to Thank  GOD.
Then, I am Grateful for all of you, I am Grateful for AMAZING people that we can learn from.
My heart is full of GRATITUDE.  Love Lilly

HURT

Hurt because you don't think anyone else reads what you write.  Well we do.  We just have writers block and can't share right now. You inspire us to keep going.  I love your stories of life.                My writers block has been lifted, so here goes. Love Lilly

Old Peoples Thanksgiving

Dear Sisters,
     It really sucks to get old. The only thing good about it is that you youngin's, who are thinking, "She's old, but that will never happen to me!" will get your turn at being old too. So there...
     We had planned on going on a road trip down to Sedona for Thanksgiving since we didn't have anyone home to cook for but Kaylee and Grumpy and myself. Kaylee and I both had to work on Black Friday, so we had to go before Thanksgiving.  Then Grumpy got asked if he would work Wednesday so that cut us short a day on our trip. Kaylee was stomping around here all pissed off that she wasn't in Texas for the holiday, making passionate love to her cute Mexican lover because they broke up two days after she came back from her last visit down to see him.  I was just imagining how fun the two days in the car with Miss Pissy and Mr. Grumpy was going to be, so I got a cold. Maybe that would keep us home and them away from me!! But Miss Pissy was bound and determined she was not staying home to listen to me cough and pee into up my laughing pads on Thanksgiving Day!! So she sat the two old people down and told us we had to make a plan. Road Trip Or Bust!!
    We took the first exit into town and stopped at the Cracker Barrel for breakfast. Not the best food, but if you give Grumpy some coffee, he becomes bearable. Then, Cedar City, Summit, Parowan, Brian Head,(some snow, some skiers) Panguitch Lake, Panguitch, Hatch, Glendale, Orderville, Zion Tunnel,  (Kaylee is driving her first switchback's, my toes are curled into the floor mat in the back!) Zion Canyon, (lots of deer this year), Springdale, Rockville, Virgin, Laverkin, Hurricane, Washingtion, and back to the Cracker Barrel for Thanksgiving Dinner!! NO, I am not kidding. Only $8.95 each.  Not the best food, but we had been all day without food. I think we even had a hunger pain and if you give people food, they smile. So we had a great Thanksgiving Day.  Really, it wasn't all that bad. Can't wait till next year when the kids will be here. We will have real food and lots of it. Actually, I just remembered, they are coming for Christmas this year, so I only have to wait like 29 more days for a home cooked meal.  Mary will be here to cook,YES!! Real Turkey, Real dressing, Real mashed potatoes and gravy. Wow, what a concept. Oh, yes, and Real Pie!!!!
     Hope you had a Wonderful Thanksgiving, Donna, since you are the only one who will read this! Just Kidding! Don't get your laughing pads all twisted in a knot or they'll stick to your hairs and hurt when you rip them off!! Okay, maybe I just went too far... Love you all anyway! Kisses, Jelene

Awesome Bagels

Saturday afternoon my girls wanted to make something and I just happened to have some asiago cheese that I had bought for this purpose, so we did it. We made asiago cheese bagels.

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/asiago-bagels-10000000522989/

This is the recipe that I used and it was really easy. The only thing that I did differently was I actually put alittle of the shreaded cheese in the batter right before I formed them into bagels.

They were way yummy the first day and not that great the second day, so I would make them when you have people over, so that you can just enjoy them fresh.

Plan on making them more, the kids loved them.
Love you all.
Donna

Why you shouldn't throw grapes in the Cafeteria

Evidentally some boys in Reagan's class were throwing grapes at lunch, so they all had to write an essay on Why not to throw grapes in the Cafeteria. Here it is.

If you throw grapes, you get caught, you go to safe, Mr. Hoskins yells at you, your parents find out, they take away your phone, no communication, you are lonely, your record is permantly ruined, you don't get into college, you don't get a good job, no job, no money, no money means no house, no house means you live under a bridge. If you live under a bridge, you die alone. Don't live under a bridge, Don't throw grapes.

She said that she wrote a serious one and didn't turn this one in, but I told her that this one was good and she should feel free to be expresive and funny in her writing. She has started writing her first novel. I'm trying to encourage her. I think she will be a great author.

Love you all,
Donna

Good Books

Dear Sisters,
     I have a hard time reading one book at a time. I have about three books on my night stand and depending on my mood, I will choose a different one every night to sooth my soul to sleep. The other night I went to bed angry and didn't want to read about love and forgiveness, so I picked up the trashy novel and read about lust and sex and stuff. And that can't be good because the only thing that is going to do is make me have really good dreams!! But since having orgasms in my dreams is the only place I will have one, I will be grateful for that.
     Now, back to the righteous book I am reading. It is called "These Truths Can Change Your Life" by Joseph Murphy...He also wrote "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind".  Here's just a little bit of the book that I love. "Whatever idea you have that is emotionalized or felt as true will be made manifest in your life. Whatever you give attention to and feel to be true will be impressed in your subconscious and brought to pass. If, for example, you affirm with emphasis and feeling that you will always be poor, can't get a head in life, that you will be discriminated against and can't do anything about it, you can rest assured that you will get the results decreed by yourself.
     Likewise, claim openly that you are born to win and to triumph, and that it is your Divine right to be healthy, wealthy and successful, and your subconscious will compel you to express these in your life as experiences, conditions and events."
     Throughout the book he gives you prayers or affirmations to repeat throughout the day.."I am the daughter of the Living God. God's peace, harmony, and joy flow through me. I am happy, joyous and free. I am inspired from On High. God loves me and cares for me. God is working wonders and miracles in my life now."
      Some that I wrote down for myself: "I am surrounded by Divine Love and Divine Peace. God opens up new doors and new ways for me now. I am God in action."
    "I am all knowledge, all power. The Infinite cannot fail. God is always successful. God dwells in me. I was born to win, to succeed and to triumph in life."
     May God bless everyone of us with a beautiful Mercedes SUV!! Like the one I saw on the Bloomington round-about today!!  Hugs and kisses, Jelene