Thanksgiving Day, Year 2000

Bryce, Lucy, and Nicole are sitting at the kids' table.
I love this picture of Paul. He is an expert carver of turkey.
Mike and Patti came from Oregon to visit the family.
Lisa was celebrating her birthday as well as Thanksgiving.
Lucy looked so cute in this red coat.

It is fun to look back in time when the grandchildren were very young. This is the year 2000 in our home in Sandy.
We met with my family at my cousin Sharalyn's home yesterday. I forgot to bring the camera, but Natalie didn't, so I will hopefully steal some from her to put on a future blog.

A Thanksgiving a Long Time Ago

My first Thanksgiving away from home (Utah) is one I will always remember. I was 24 years old. Guy and I were living in Laredo, Texas, while he was going through pilot training for the Air Force. Natalie was only a few months old.

The temperature outside was in the 90's; It certainly didn't feel like the Thanksgivings of my childhood. We lived in a trailer at the time. The airconditioning was going full blast to try to keep up with the heat outside.

Here we were, very homesick and far from home. We decided to invite some other couples we had met in Laredo to share our Thanksgiving Day. They all came around noon with their food contributions for the dinner.

I was in charge of cooking the turkey. Well, I had never cooked a turkey in my life. Basically, I just stuck it in the oven. No one had told me I needed to remove the sack inside the turkey containing the neck and other assorted gross parts . Also, no one had told me that I needed a lot of time to defrost the turkey. So, it pretty much went into the oven frozen.

Dinner was supposed to start at 1:00 P.M. Every half hour or so, I would check the turkey to see if it was done. While waiting, we were all feeling the effects of the one window airconditioner we had which tried to combat the heat coming from the oven and outside.

Finally, we all gave up the waiting game and ate a turkey-less Thanksgiving dinner. I think the turkey was finally done around 10:00 that evening. Needless to say, this was a very disappointing Thanksgiving, as well as a pretty embarrassing one!

Still Alive But Now Spotted!!!

I have been fighting with my body, and so far I am not the winner! Weird spots have been appearing on my arms, chest and face. The face spots are especially unattractive. In fact, my internist said yesterday that I might have a good chance of winning a look-alike contest for Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer! I have been to a dermatalogist and my internist, but these spots are very determined to stay.

Apparently, I am allergic to my blood pressure pill. Yesterday afternoon Dr. Roberts gave me a week's worth of steriods. Hopefully, that will work. In the mean time I have not felt well and haven't been motivated to do this blog or anything else as well.

So.....I'm still here; I'm just a little more colorful version of me!!!

A Positive View of Teenagers

I had the best experience yesterday. My friend Suzette had a birthday, and I decided to take lunch to her at Riverton High School where she teaches.

I had to park in the visitor section of the parking lots, which put me quite a distance from Suzette's classroom. Hoisting all the stuff I needed to take (sandwiches, chips, cookies, large drinks, even larger birthday gift, purse), I started walking from my car to Suzette's classroom door. I was doing a balancing act, and it probably showed from the frustration on my face.

A teenage girl, who was on her lunch break, saw me struggling and asked if she could help. She took half of the items, and we made our way to Suzette's classroom on the second floor. How sweet was that?

Keep in mind that I taught teenagers in the public schools for 20 years. The kind young lady who helped me reminded me of all the truly great teenagers out there. Certainly there were the jerks, but all in all, the nice ones definitely outweighed the obnoxious ones.

This sweet teenage girl (why didn't I ask her name) made my day!