Happy Thanksgiving 🍁

Today is Thanksgiving 2023🦃- Craig and I are having a quite day.  I’m still recovering.  The Towner and Thomas family are having a fun time together on a cruise this year.  We bought a small turkey to cook our own Thanksgiving dinner here at our Draper home.  We drove down Tuesday evening after Craig did some YSA visit with two of the sisters in the branch.  They are trying to find a Relief Society president for the branch - I put all my fall decoration away over the weekend and did some cleaning.  It felt good to tidy things up. Slowly getting some of my Christmas decor out.  With it snowing Sunday it put me in the Christmas mood.  I can only get a little done each day- I fatigue really fast- still recovering from my surgery.  Three weeks out and I’m healing very slowly each day. I can see the pain is letting up little by little.  Back at our Draper home.  Last week I decorated a  new tree upstairs. It was so fun to walk in and have it all looking so pretty.  Wednesday I decorated our tree in the basement.  I did a Santa theme this year.  It turned out so pretty- I wear out so fast.  It took me all day to get the tree done.  This morning I woke up at 5:am to check our Turkey cooking in the oven.  It smells so good-  I cooked it all night- it was done and ready for our Thanksgiving dinner- waking up so early I started decorating the fireplace mantle in the basement and adding the finishing touches.  It has all turned out so pretty- it has been fun to decorate with the fun Christmas decor I bought last year on sale after Christmas.  I’ve added a lot more white in the basement this year and love it.   I had to take a morning nap - Craig  is cleaned up the kitchen for me and peeled the potatoes-  when I woke up he had the mash potatoes made and cooked brussels sprouts-  I made the gravy and dressing-  we sat down for a yummy dinner.  It will be nice to have leftovers.  It has wore me out just doing the few dishes and resting now- as I was doing dishes I noticed my sink had pulled away from the sides and barely hanging on-  we heard a noise yesterday of some thing falling but couldn’t find what it was - must have been the sink pulling way.  Craig was able to brace it so we can get it glued back in place.  Relaxing this afternoon- Shannon just sent me a funny text that little Ashtyn texted all by herself and sent to me.  Debbie are you heading back home tomorrow? Thanksgiving is coming💖 checked my text messages about noon today and so surprised to see this message - Hi Debbie- this is Tricia Wallentine. I’m having a melt down because my table cloth doesn’t fit my table. Do you by chance have a long square table cloth. I thought if anyone would have one it would be you.   This is the sister that was so nasty to me when I was serving in young women’s 5 years back -guess she had finally forgiven me - I told her she  could go pick it up at our home I was out of town and had just washed it laying in my laundry room- I asked her to feed the cat for me- guess we are friends now.  It’s taken a long time for things to heal for me. Having her reach out -means she has finally accepted me as a friend. -  she texted back-

Cat is fed and we gave her some water. Got the table cloth, it’s beautiful. ❤️ I have enjoyed our quite day.  Cooking a small dinner for us has wore me out.  I’m resting this afternoon.  I want to drive out and see our little Ashtyn- just don’t know if I have the energy. Towner’s and Thomas family sent some fun pictures - they are all having a great time on their cruise.  Wish we could have been there with them.  Maybe next year-