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MomDot Party Day 11

I’m still on my high from being selected as a contributing writer to the party yesterday and seeing my name and fmaily pics on MomDot, but today we must move on to the day 11 topic,

If you could only eat ONE food on Thanksgiving Day, what would it be? Do you have a homecooked meal for Thanksgiving or do you go out to eat? Does your family dress up?

With Thanksgiving so close this is surely on my mind so an easier one to write about in theory, but geez!  We have so many good foods on Thanksigiving, how could I dare choose just ONE thing? Trisha, are you for real?  I just don’t see how this could be so I’ll start with the my favorites and let’s see if I can then narrow that list down…maybe.

What do I expect at every Thanksgiving? Which food disappoint me the most if they weren’t there?

Well, there’s the obvious – TURKEY!  (preferably fried, though that doesn’t happen often)

Then there’s the Chicken ‘N Dumplings (yum! yum!)

And you can’t forget the mashed potatoes (My mom is one of the few people I know who still makes our mashed potatoes from POTATOES and not flakes)

And there’s her homemade Mac and Cheese (personally, I’d rather make Velveeta Shells N Cheese, but that still doesn’t compare to Momma’s)

And then we have to think about the DESSERTS…..

There’s the banana pudding (that I make) at Mom and Dad’s, but…..

Then we go to Mamaw’s for dinner and there’s the pecan pie

and chocolate pie…..

And this is where I get my fill of yummy! southern dressing…..

And for this MomDot Party Post, Trisha says I have to narrow it down to ONE…One I tell you….when there are all of those things on our table every Thanksgiving (and Christmas too actually)….has she lost it? :)

Ok, ok….I must follow the rules, right?  Now’s not the time to be the rebel.  FINE!  If I have to pick just one, I pick the mashed potatoes, no…..the dumplings…never mind….I changed my mind…I chose the pecan pie. That’s it….that’s it for sure…Well except I sure do like the topping on that chocolate pie.  But Mom rarely makes those mashed potatoes and mac and cheese.  Fine…the one thing that I only get to eat twice a year…I guess I have to go with that one. Right.  Fine….I’m going to say…the one food I can’t live without is the TURKEY!  Yep….That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Oh….and if you couldn’t tell, we eat homemade yummies every Thanksgiving and Christmas and we do it in our comfy clothes….nothing dressy or formal for us.

MomDot Party Day 9

The MomDot Party continues today with another great topic – GIFTS!  I spent last night doing a lot of gift shopping, but today’s topicis about gifts we’ve received not given…

Most unusual gift you have received? Best gift? Do you re-gift?

Wow. This is a lot harder to talk about than gifts we’ve bought huh?  I don’t know that I truly think I’ve gotten any unusual gifts.  My family has always done pretty well at picking out things I want.  The only person who doesn’t do that is one of my grandmothers.  She always buys me clothes – clothes I will never wear.  :)  I smile every year and thank her and tell her how cute they are, and then they never even get hung up and put in the closet as I KNOW that I’m not wearing them.

I’ve received lots of great gifts over the years, but I guess the best gift ever was my house.  My grandmother bought me my house and paid to have it moved and set up for me the winter of 1997 as a high school graduation, birthday and Christmas present.  Though I think we’ve outgrown it, we still live in this house.  I am so thankful even now for it as with this economy going the way it is, at least I know I don’t have a mortgage payment to make (and she’s happy as it accomplished her goal of keeping me close).

I tend to get really good gifts so it’s really not often that I even have the option of regifting though I have to admit that yes, I have done so on occasion.  When I do though, it’s not just me pawning off a gift, but instead passing on something that I know someone will like better than I do.

 

MomDot Party Day 8

I’ve already written and posted this post, but something happened this morning so here’s try 2.  :)

Today’s topic is one that I’m looking forward to – not necessarily this post, but the actual action:

Do you shop on Black Friday? What time do you start? Do you finish all your shopping on that day? What’s the best deal you have found? What’s your shopping strategy?

I LOVE Black Friday shopping.  I’ve been all over the web (there are several Black Friday sites) finding all the sites I can about what will be on sale where and actually have most of my plans for next Friday mapped out already.

Shopping on the day after Thanksgiving is a tradition for our family.  My grandmother, my mother and I all go and do some major bargain shopping.  The plans begin early.  Like I mentioned, I’ve already gathered most of the ads and forwarded them no to my mom and grandmother.  We’ve got our lists ready.  We compare items we know we want at each store to know who has the best deal.

Next Thursday (Thanksgiving) we will go back through the acutal sale papers to make sure that the sales I’m finding on the Black Friday websites are true and develop a final plan.  We will split up the stores so that we can be at all of them when they open. For whatever stores I’m going to, I’ll have my list, my mom’s, and my grandmother’s.  Sometimes Dad puts some items on the list, but he won’t dare brave the crowds.

Friday morning we’ll wake up WAY TOO early and head over to the neighboring town that actually has stores to shop at.  We’ll travel in a caravan so that we can go too different stores and have plenty of room for all of our purchases.  We’ll use our cell phones and each hit a different area of town and buy as many items on each of our lists as possible.

Around 9:30 or 10:00 we tend to have wrapped up our early bird shopping, and we all meet at Ihop for a late breakfast to share what we did successfully buy and what we missed.  Then sometimes we will go browse the mall or stores that have sales that day, but not early morning be there at store opening sales and then head home to divide up our purchases and take them to our respective homes to wrap them.

Momdot Party – Day 7

Today’s post for the MomDot Christmas party has been the most difficult. Why? Well let me start by telling you today’s topic:

Who’s on your naughty list?  Whose on your nice list?  Why?

I could go on and on with my nice list. I know a lot of nice and deserving people, but the trouble starts with the naughty list. How do you define “naughty?” And do I really want to publish the names of people that I think are naughty. The answer to that – heck no!!! So what do I do so I’m participating in the party?

Well, maybe I’ll start with telling you just a few of those Nice People….

There are my family members that are the most giving – the most “nice”

 

  • my brother, Tommie, who chooses to protect our freedom while serving in the US Army in Iraq 
  • My parents who are always there for all of us when we need a hand
  • My grandmother who is maybe one of my biggest heroes who at 73 years old is still running an elderly foster home – putting others in front of her.
And then there’s some of my favorite friends:
  • Mrs. Harrison
  • Emily
  • Misty
  • And my newest friend, Anna
And finally, a few of my blogging friends
And there’s so many other of you mom bloggers out there that I thinnk are the most wonderful people in the world.  I wish I could list all of you but then I’d feel so guilty if I tried to and left one of you out. So if you are a mom blogger and you are one of the MomDot Regulars or TheMomBlogs regulars, you are also on my Nice List.
And as for that Naughty list….I won’t say any names, but if you are a “drama causer,” If you are petty and looking to talk trash about people and start trouble, if you think your way is the only way and that you can control others, and if you don’t care enough about your child to put them first in yoru life, then YOU are on my Naughty list.