Normally we go out of town for Thanksgiving Day, but this year we’re staying home. We’re having a wee-little gathering at our house, and with the help of the fine people at Honeybaked Ham, I’m doing all the cooking. I love doing all the cooking, by the way. Especially when all the cooking doesn’t involve a big ole dried-up turkey.
(To be clear, I am a turkey fan.)
(However, I have never had much success cooking a turkey.)
(Mainly because one time our friend Benji deep fried one for T’giving, and I have been RUINED by its deliciousness ever since. Baked turkey stands in the shadow of fried turkey and cowers.)
Anyway.
This morning I looked at the date on my computer and thought it rang a little bit of a mental bell – and sure enough, I looked back at my posts and realized that I started my blog four years ago today. That is so hard for me to believe. Especially since this is what Alex looked like in the blog’s early days.
Did you just hear me sigh? Because I sighed really, really loudly.
And while I could sit here and wax nostalgic for a sweet forever, I’m going to resist that temptation and say this instead: I am so grateful for every single one of you who stops by here to read every now and again. Your kindness and your hilarious comments and your tolerance of my never-ending obsession with Mississippi State football and basketball have been an incredible blessing in my life and my family’s life. I cannot say “thank you” enough.
I hope y’all have a wonderful Thanksgiving – and I hope you’re surrounded by people you love.
I also hope you’re surrounded by some really good casseroles. And maybe even some homemade chocolate pies.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
November 25th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Let me chime in and tell you how much I enjoy your blog…and your humor…and your heart. You are a blessing.
ps- time for another Boo/Big podcast? I so enjoy the podcasts. Helps put a voice to the text.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Congrats on your 4th blogging anniversary. Happy Thanksgiving!!
November 25th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Happy thanksgiving, Friend!!!!
November 25th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours and thanks for all the blogging!
November 25th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Have a blessed Thanksgiving.
Four wonderful years of blogging. Thank you for that. God has used your blog as a diving board that many of us has jumped off of to create our own.
I am thankful for you.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
I have given up on trying to bake a decent turkey, and am too a-skeert to try and fry one in one of them big ol’ burnin’-oil things, so we went the Honeybaked route, too!
May you and your sweet family have the happiest of Thanksgiving…and thank YOU for this wonderful blawg!!
November 25th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Oh Sophie – the miracle that has saved my turkeys and made me look like I might know how to cook is called the Reynolds Oven Bag. If you follow the directions, cook it the amount of time for the weight of your turkey – NO DRY BIRD!! and plenty of juices for good old fashioned gravy (which I AM GOOD AT!!) THANK YOU – for brightening all of our lives – your ‘crazy’ makes us all feel like we’re not so crazy ourselves!!
November 25th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Sophie — hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with you family. Love your bloggy abilities – thanks for making me laugh.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Thank you for writing (no quotation marks) this blog that can uplift one day, make you laugh until you cry another day, and always shows a genuine kindness of spirit.
November 26th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Sophie…I just can’t say “thank you,” but that’s all I got. THANK YOU for doing what you do. THANK YOU for being the real deal. THANK YOU for putting family and football first and foremost. THANK YOU for making me laugh and making me think. THANK YOU for going to Uganda because you inspired me to sponsor our precious Sofia. I’m glad to know you….thank you!
Have a glorious day!!!
Love you bunches!
November 26th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Happy Thanksgiving and happy belated blogoversary. :)
November 26th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Four years! Wow – that means my four year bloggy aniversary is just a few months away!
Happy Thanksgiving girl!!!
November 26th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Happy Thanksgiving, sweetie!
November 26th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Sophie: I am so glad that I found out about you at the “Siesta Fiesta” August of 2008. Your humor is well splent on me, I love it! You literally crack me up, and I thank you for that!
I was surrounded by squash casserole, brocccoli casserole, sweet potato “souffle” and some butter peas, green beans and mashed potatoes and gravy, and cornbread dressing and turkey and ham. Oh my my my, us Southerners know how to do Thanksgiving!
I am now craving chocolate pie, thank you very much. There is nothing better – I may have to make one. Soon.
Love to your family,
Georgia Jan
November 26th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Happy Thanksgiving! And thank you for sharing with us for the past 4 yrs!
November 27th, 2009 at 8:34 am
While we didn’t have chocolate pie, we did have a chocolate layer cake that was TO DIE FOR (chocolate cake, chocolate ganash (sp?), whipped cream….*sigh*).
Thanks for your blog, Sophie. I am grateful for finding it and cannot imagine my daily blog reading without it! : )
November 27th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
I love doing the cooking myself, too…and usually have Thanksgiving at my house, especially since my mom went home to heaven a few years ago. But this year, we went to my aunt’s for dinner…and I’m missing the cooking and the leftovers so much that I’ve decided to cook a second Thanksgiving here, tomorrow! =)
I hope you had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving…ours was full of love and gratefulness…
And…thank you…for being you and for all the laughs and smiles you give to those who visit your corner of the blogosphere. You bless my heart, dear BooMama! =)
November 28th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Mouth drooling for Honeybaked ham…b/c I’ve eaten FOUR TIMES now!!!
November 28th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Come on! Where’s the post? 41 to 27?
November 28th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Happy Thanksgiving!
I was rooting for your Bulldogs today and was so excited when they stomped all over the Rebs! But the best part was when my 2-year-old looked at the TV and pouted, “Ella-Choo dame (LSU game)!”
Great day for the Dawgs and the Tigers!!
November 29th, 2009 at 6:15 am
I know what you mean by ruined! Hubs fried a turkey one year and that is how we have had it ever since. It’s so delicious! And we even had the home made chocolate pie to boot! And as long as you don’t mind a little Aggie football come on over anytime you like I might even share my green bean bundles wrapped in bacon, yes bacon! yummmmmmm.
November 29th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
What a game yesterday, huh? I am glad State waited til after the Bama game to play so well!!
November 29th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family and congratulations on your bloggy anniversary!!! You have brightened many a day for me.
BTW, here’s a tip for making sure you have a moist oven roasted turkey — brining. Brine your turkey beforehand and it will be oh soooooo tender and good.
November 29th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
I’m late to the party, but happy, happy, happy bloggy anniversary. I’m so glad that you allow this little corner of the web universe to be part of my day so often. You’ve made this chick a better girl for the reading. And I mean that. You also made me wish I had not yet polished off the chocolate pie my SIL made. Darn.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Just had to tell you- Happy Anniversary! Also- I made the White Rotel dip from your Diptacular and all I can say is -OH MY GOSH- it’s addictive!! My husband is in love with it! I could eat with a spoon.
By the way- try Brining your Turkey- it’s fabulous and easy!
December 1st, 2009 at 6:00 am
Happy belated anniversary!
I started reading blogs last year and found you through our mutual BFF Beth Moore! She mentioned you in a blog post about a pound cake and the rest is history. From that day, you, Bigmama and Shannon have been my daily reads! The perfect blog trifecta!!!
Many blessings to you and your sweet family this Christmas season.
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:49 am
Hi.
My name is Mandy. And I’m 31. And I’ve never cooked a turkey.
And I hope I never will.
That is all.