Our plans still aren't made, but regardless of guests or not...I'll be doing all the cooking. My parents may come over, but that kinda depends on what kind of shape I can whip this house into in the next week & a half.

We'll do a turkey with stuffing (inside, of course, because the salmonella makes it moist & tender), mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, cranberry relish, homemade bread, and I think I'll try my hand at sweet potato casserole. For dessert, there'll be way too many pies. ha ha

Anybody ever see a Holly Hunter movie called "Home for the holidays"? It's centered around a daughter's return home to celebrate a completely dysfunctional family's Thanksgiving. I swear, there's a little of everyone's family touched upon. ha ha

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.