Happy despite lasagna lack.

[mrissa]

What I said last year on Thanksgiving was, "...the first thing I'm thankful for is always the same: the people I love. I say it at other times, so I don't have to feel bad about 'one day out of the year' blah blah: I'm always thankful for the people I love, because I have a kickass awesome set of people to love. I don't know anyone luckier than me in that regard. I don't think they exist. Happily, I know some people as lucky as I am in that regard, so the lack of total ordering serves us in good stead."

It's still true. And this year I'm very grateful to have my energy back so I can run out of it by running around as usual. I'm very grateful for not only Dr. porphyrin, but also for intelligent, caring doctors everywhere. May we have more of them and less need of them in the year to come.

This year it will be my grands, my folks, my Onie, markgritter, and me, plus the beastlet running around underfoot. timprov isn't feeling well enough to head down to the folks' with us, but my mom is making up a plate to send home with us for him. My grandma has made four pies for eight people. Happily we all like pie enough that an extra day or two of pie won't make anybody gnash their teeth or tear their hair too enthusiastically. As I am not the host this year, we are not having my traditional Thanksgiving lasagna, but rather some outlandish thing like turkey with stuffing and potatoes. When in Apple Valley, as the saying goes. And there will be fresh lefse, so at least that's traditional. For us.

Happy Thanksgiving, all of you, whether you celebrate it as a holiday or whether you simply pause in your daily life to be glad of the good things you have.

Comments

[one-undone.livejournal.com]

Four pies to every eight people sounds about right to me.

::nods in approval::

I know your grandma is not Irish-Italian, but she would have fit in well with my family.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

Yep, I think a pie to people ratio of 1:2 sounds about right. That's what we'll have today, once Angel finishes making the pumpkin and lemon icebox pies. You can get away with a lower ratio if you have sufficient quantities of banana pudding on hand, but it's not advisable to try, as what would initially seem to be sufficient quantities of banana pudding rarely actually are.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Banana pudding has not been a Thanksgiving thing for us. My grandma makes pies for the holidays, and if there is more dessert needed, she just makes more pie, then more pie, then still more pie. And we like pie, so it's okay.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

Banana pudding is probably more of a southern thing. Pie is good (else I wouldn't have had both kinds tonight), but there's just no substitute for banana pudding.

[aszanoni.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. Traditional Thanksgiving lasagna - yum! I would be looking with longing over at your house.

Plenty of pies sounds very good also. Today is a good day. The little green feathered monkey is behaving...

Happy T-day to all. -hugs-

- Chica

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah on the pie, I was bad today. Two pieces of mince ala mode rocked.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I've never had mince pie.

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

We can remedy that, the technology is out there. Heck give me a days notice and I'll make you one.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

That is potentially tragic; it might be something you liked, perhaps. We've got some of one here just at the moment.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We have had this conversation before, you realize. Except for the last bit.

[pameladean]

The crust is substandard! But it would give you the basic idea.

P.