I spotted this today while blog trolling and it made me smile, so I thought I’d share with you...
To All Our Family & Friends:
Just a note to let you know we are hoping to see you Thanksgiving Day. But… Martha Stewart will not be dining with us this Thanksgiving. I’m telling you in advance, so don’t act surprised. Since Ms. Stewart won’t be coming, I’ve made a few small changes:
Our sidewalk will not be lined with homemade, paper bag luminaries. After a trial run, it was decided that no matter how cleverly done, rows of flaming lunch sacks do not have the desired welcoming effect.
Once inside, our guests will note that the entry hall is not decorated with the swags of Indian corn and fall foliage I had planned to make. Instead, I’ve gotten the kids involved in the decorating by having them track in colorful autumn leaves from the front yard. The mud was their idea.
The dining table will not be covered with expensive linens, fancy china, or crystal goblets. If possible, we will use dishes that match and everyone will get a fork. Since this IS Thanksgiving, we will refrain from using the plastic Peter Rabbit plate and the Santa napkins from last Christmas.
Our centerpiece will not be the tower of fresh fruit and flowers that I promised. Instead we will be displaying a hedgehog-like decoration hand-crafted from the finest construction paper. The artist assures me it is a turkey.
We will be dining fashionably late. The children will entertain you while you wait. I’m sure they will be happy to share every choice comment I have made regarding Thanksgiving, pilgrims and the turkey hotline. Please remember that most of these comments were made at 5:00 a.m. upon discovering that the turkey was still hard enough to cut diamonds.
As accompaniment to the children’s recital, I will play a recording of tribal drumming. If the children should mention that I don’t own a recording of tribal drumming, or that tribal drumming sounds suspiciously like a frozen turkey in a clothes dryer, ignore them. They are lying.
We toyed with the idea of ringing a dainty silver bell to announce the start of our feast. In the end, we chose to keep our traditional method. We’ve also decided against a formal seating arrangement. When the smoke alarm sounds, please gather around the table and sit where you like. In the spirit of harmony, we will ask the children to sit at a separate table. In a separate room. Next door.
Now, I know you have all seen pictures of one person carving a turkey in front of a crowd of appreciative onlookers. This will not be happening at our dinner. For safety reasons, the turkey will be carved in a private ceremony. I stress “private” meaning: Do not, under any circumstances, enter the kitchen to laugh at me. Do not send small, unsuspecting children to check on my progress. I have an electric knife. The turkey is unarmed. It stands to reason that I will eventually win. When I do, we will eat.
I would like to take this opportunity to remind my young diners that “passing the rolls” is not a football play. Nor is it a request to bean your sister in the head with warm tasty bread.
Oh, and one reminder for the adults: For the duration of the meal, and especially while in the presence of young diners, we will refer to the giblet gravy by its lesser-known name: Cheese Sauce. If a young diner questions you regarding the origins or type of Cheese Sauce, plead ignorance. Cheese Sauce stains.
Before I forget, there is one last change. Instead of offering a choice between 12 different scrumptious desserts, we will be serving the traditional pumpkin pie, garnished with whipped cream and small fingerprints. You will still have a choice; take it or leave it.
I hope you aren’t too disappointed that Martha Stewart will not be dining with us this Thanksgiving. She probably won’t come next year either.
Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
I got crafty this weekend, and made a couple cards after cleaning the area a bit. This one's inspired by clean & simple's 11/18 FTL117 sketch and Moxie World's 11/23 Tuesday Trigger Snowing Gingerbread challenges. I love 
My boss called upon me to make another baby hankie card for her. We partner in crime occasionally, and she makes these STINKIN' CUTE baby bonnets from fancy hankies to accompany a poem that I then insert into the card that I make for the happy occasion. I'd picked up this used SU stamp set thinking I'd use it the next time my services were requested.
With the extended weekend upon us, the Blondins (at least two of us!) took in Tangled, Disney's 50th full-length animated feature film! Loosely based on the German fairy tale, Rapunzul is still being raised by Dame Gothel, but now borne of royalty rather than rescued by a prince, and discovered by a good-natured thief on the lam. The Disney folkes have another winner on their hands, IMHO, with this one! It's got lots of action, a spunky heroine, loveable thief (think Aladdin combined with Robin Hood and Mel Gibson), magic, and the best parts of the original fairy tale. And did I mention that it's showing in either a Disney Digital 3D or IMAX 3D versions? We saw the Disney 3D version. It was subtle, for the most part, but I think made the film even better. I'm giving it 4-1/2 of 5 stars!
OK, maybe not SO random!
I spotted this today while blog trolling and it made me smile, so I thought I’d share with you...
Hi folkes! Happy Thanksgiving! No card today ... just a greeting. I'm making a new recipe (for me) today as my contribution toward the Thanksgiving feast at my sister's home - Potato Supreme - compliments of my boss. I was online yesterday looking up the recipe and found a few variations (one as a mashed potato crust filled w brocolli and cheese - YUM!), but my boss happened by the printer during my printouts and offered me her version. We picked up the ingredients that I didn't have on hand at home already yesterday, so I'm ready to get cookin' soon; I figure I should have it ready to go into the oven in an hour or so. That left plenty of time to take a pic of my kitchen table, decorated for Thanksgiving in case we hosted here. It's skillfully edited to cut out the jackets tossed on the backs of the chairs. Good job, eh?!
We treated one of my BFFs, Pat, to lunch today to celebrate her birthday. My lunch buddies have a long-standing tradition of the birthday person getting to select the restaurant on their birthday and today we dined at David's Pizza on Corunna Road in Flint town. He's a clown (literally - he clowns on the side) and recited a pretty darn cool poem to her as we sat down to lunch!
TodaysMama and GameStop are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.
MAYBE I should have found one of my evergreen branch stamps to hang an ornament on, but I was in a crafty mood and this stamp set was handy, OK?! I've no idea how mistletoe even grows, as I've only seen clusters hanging from ceilings and doorways! I picked up an inexpensive MME stamp set when I stopped for this weekend's make-'n-take at CAM - mainly a silhouette set - as it had a really cute cardinal and deer and wreath and mistletoe branch and tree and snowflake or poinsettia. Eight stamps in all, for less than $6 - a pretty good deal. There was probably matching DP to the set (but I'm happy with this) as there were for the last couple MME stamp sets I'd picked up there recently. As I've spent way more than my usual allotment this past month, thanx to that scrapping show in Birch Run a couple weekends ago, I was trying to control myself. The DP in the background on this card is some from a Karen Foster DP pkg from that Birch Run trip. It's a bit lighter IRL, but the pic is taken under fluorescent lamp and not daylight conditions.
Today's make -'n- take is brought to you by the lovely and talented JillD at Capture-a-Memory. I got there just before 2 p.m. and figured I'd probably missed out on today's make-'n-take, but they'd extended the hours and I still had an hour to make today's project! I'd stopped in to make this month's set of 5 Christmas cards with Maria. I'd stopped by last weekend and loved the sampling she had but couldn't commit to their Monday evening class time this week.
Have you seen it yet? I don't know which of us is the bigger fan - my eldest son or me! I flexed some of my time this work week so that I could leave work early to take in the latest HP movie with Geoff. I even did something I'd never done before; when I originally checked the movie times playing at our local theater via movietickets.com and saw that the 7 p.m. show wasn't link-enabled so that you could purchase tickets online, I assumed that meant that the show was already sold out. Worried that we'd be shut out on opening day, I purchased advance tickets online! Sigh ... wasn't necessary at the 2:15 p.m. show. I should've saved my cash.
