THANKSGIVING WEEK IS HERE AND I'M READY. The HOLIDAY hasn't snuck up on me this year. Last week we purchased a couple of turkeys and placed them in the freezer along with a ham for future eating. Saving the HAM for Christmas. To make room in the freezer, the older frozen turkey from last year was taken out and set in the fridge to thaw so I can bake it for now eating. The old turkey will hopefully still taste good. Supposedly a frozen turkey stays good for at least TWO YEARS. This week we'll have TURKEY SANDWICHES.
HUBBY and I will be HOME alone for THANKSGIVING and I think I'm alright with this. I placed a RSVP with the local community THANKSGIVING DINNER that HUBS will pick up on Thanksgiving Day to where we will be dining at HOME. Hallelujah. We'll be thankful. I won't have to BAKE or CLEAN-UP. THANKFUL for this! I can pour my energy into something else such as continued downsizing and shuffling.
I love getting together with family, but this year is a bit different. Our children will be celebrating out of state. Our oldest Son and fam will be dining with his In-Laws this season. Our Daughter and fam will be together with our middle Son and fam in St. Louis which makes me very HAPPY as our Son seldom has company. Having his Sister and fam will be welcomed. Warm wishes to them all. I mailed Thanksgiving cards to them earlier and suspect they have received them by now.
Hubby and I will be working this last part of November plus the first part of December in getting the rooms rearranged in HOPES of being settled in the rooms before CHRISTMAS. This will be my Christmas present from my Hubby....having the tiny COTTAGE with the pieces of furniture placed where they need to be before we start doing more remodeling of the interior of the HOME. 2025 will be a year of painting ceilings, walls and trims throughout the house. Probably carpeting and tiling the kitchen floor. When the weather warms up some in 2025, the front porch will be rebuilt. More downsizing and clearing out storage units. pause.
Couldn't we do the remodeling with the furniture the way it is? The place is already torn up. Yes, but we are so very slow and I need to have some sense of order while we are living in the in-between stage of things so the furniture needs to be present.
So much to do. Hubs said he'd be shuffling down in the cellar today. In hopes of his being ready to start moving bedroom furniture into the SHE SHED this week. Oh LORD, Make it happen.
The tool boxes we purchased last week have come to good use as he has filled each one with smaller items that he wanted to group together such as all the hammers he owns are grouped together in one tool box. I can tell that he wants order as badly as I do. He lit up when he showed me a pic of his work. I'm going to Manhattan today to pick up some special flour and while I'm there, I'll buzz by Menards and get him two more tool boxes to complete his transformation from being in over our heads messy to being organized.
This move has been a difficult one as it was not what I would call a CLEAN MOVE. We were in a hurry to vacate our property which meant not everything being packed was done decently and in order. When you have to vacate quickly, you may run into this. We did. I'm still unpacking boxes that are in the garage. It will take another year probably to get to the bottom of this as we have two storage units full of things that need dealt with. I suppose I will have to deal with it like it were a HOBBY. With the weather turning off cold, it will be a hit and miss kind of thing when we can work on it.
HOPES FOR THE DAY.
Bills written out and ready to be paid.
Laundry to fold and put away.
WALK.
Correspondences written.
Getting lined out for this week to come.
Locating our Christmas Tree and garland.
Baking a turkey.
Hair Appointment.
Picking up some heirloom flour from a friend.
Purchasing tool boxes.
WHEN rearranging some dishes to make room for some of my treasures in the house, the antique Tea Leaf platter I placed in the cabinet took a nose dive falling over causing two of the cups to fall to the floor breaking one of my 1890s coffee cups. Saving the pieces. Might try to create a piece of jewelry from the broken pieces. No tears. Thankful the big platter didn't chip. gulp.
Our Thanksgiving meal will be picked up and eaten at our tiny COTTAGE this year and the day won't be all about the meal, but thoughts of WHY we celebrate the day in the first place will come to mind and shared. To God be the glory great things HE hath done.
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