Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends celebrating :D

ahh sorry for responding so late lol, some things came up and I haven't been on in a couple of weeks! I don't really know if there are any new ways to earn sP, but I think quests have gradually been giving more sP over the years maybe? ^^ I totally need to start saving up for some Xmas gifts too! Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving from Thailand! We head home tomorrow. This trip has been so amazing there are no words. I road on the back of an elephant!! On back by her neck and her ears flapped on my legs...her hair like wire on her leathery head (like me haha!) It was beautiful and surreal. I loved elephants before but love them more than ever now. I would have never had that on my bucket list because would have seemed too impossible.

Congrats on catching the plushie!

^_^ Eeeee! YAAY!
Your pet has changed into a Harvest Priggle! You've earned the Massive Family! achievement! Unlocked Have a Harvest Pet!

I now have a Harvest pet born on Thanksgiving, and I'm so happy! :)

wooo hooo congrats just seen you won the potion for today :D awesome bud

Congrats that is really neat! I wish i had thought of it ❤

^_^ Thank you!

:) Just woke up from a 'long winter's nap' after a full day of shopping. I actually go out on BF only once every few years. This year, I went with our exchange student (younger and more energy) and had a blast! Almost literally 'dawn to dusk'. ^_^" Haha! I feel the 20 min. line to get a coffee to keep going was worth it though. <3 Please do not deny me a peppermint mocha during the holidays. <3

thanks for all the well wishes, healing in bed!

Hope you have someone to help you with the little things. Make sure you get enough fluids along with the rest please.

... I bet it's beautiful there.. I would imagine it has really interesting colors and brightness about the whole place. I can't believe you wrote an elephant for real that's so neat..

Yahoooo congrats you won the lottery..good goin!!!!

No worries. Thank you!

:D Hey everybody! Black Friday (Subeta-version) is here! It's alive and kickin' starting Now! <3 Have fun everyone. :)

That is amazing! I don’t think I would have the courage to ride an elephant. Congratulations! :)

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My Darlings...

I have been lurking for the last couple of weeks, but I wanted to share some news from my little family and our Thanksgiving. All my children and my parents attended this year. Weldon's parents and siblings had traveled to his grandparents home in the mountains. It was our turn to be hosts. Weldon did all the cooking and I decorated and cleaned the house. (Aya helped too). Dinner was perfect, except that we ran out of peas.

Welly made Gin and Tonics with a twist for all the adults while we ate pie and cookies and played games Thursday night. It helped me get through both Jacqueline’s and Aya’s emotional meltdowns and dramatic hystrionics. (Aya is mute, but when she gets emotional, she rages and throws things. Welly is the only one who can talk her down.) What would Thanksgiving be without some family drama? Boring, that's what. Watching your adult children make complete boobs of themselves from time to time is always a great excuse to keep the liquor cabinet well stocked. (A trick I learned from my mother and father).

I thought that Jacqueline was just being petulant that she didn’t get a drumstick and peas at Thanksgiving dinner, because her husband took the last scoop. She pouted all afternoon and made snide cutting remarks at all her brothers, sisters, kids, (and parents) until Luna, the eldest in the litter, took her into the bathroom and slapped the snot out of her and told her to get over herself (weasel psycho-therapy typically consists of a smattering of medically-approved physical violence). After that we all found out that Jackie is in her first trimester with her third litter, and that her mate, Peter lost his job the day before Thanksgiving. This news was cause to come together as a family , surround Jacqueline , Peter, and their 11 children and count all our blessings. After all, that’s what Thanksgiving is for.

Luna is engaged and yet her intended, Derrick couldn't attend because he had obligations with his family, so Luna was peeved when she got here. Sparkles is married and his mate Saffron is expecting, so there was some tension there with all the attention, advice and jitters. Jairen isn't in a relationship, though he wants to be, so he was a little down when he arrived.

Of the younger children, Gwendolyn is the perkiest and sweetest and that seems to annoy Luna and Aya that she is so upbeat about everything. So Gwen got lots of dagger eyes from her older sisters. Gwen didn't even let that phase her sunny disposition. Buckmeister, the jokester of the family thought that putting plastic bugs in everybody's food, drinks, desserts and suitcases was excruciatingly hilarious, and every scream or curse just egged him on. He only stopped after Sparkles tied his tail to the legs of his chair, but only for about five minutes. Samwise, the youngest of the litter and the smallest of all my children was just sweet as can be , made love to the dessert cart during dinner and then ran through the forest buck-naked like a wild animal and brought home food that he had hunted, strangled, dressed and butchered himself. It was his contribution to Game Night. I think he missed the point, but caught on eventually, once Weldon brought out the cards and poker chips.

Oh, Weldon and I had our little Thanksgiving spat too...over pecan pie. Welly wanted to make it using a recipe he got from his mother that used molasses, it was a tradition that he remembered from when he was a wee little child. But my mother had always used glucose syrup (corn syrup) and that was how it was always done in my home. He prevailed and made two molasses pecan pies, which everybody complained about. Telling him 'I told you so' did nothing to ease his disappointment and he was a little cross with me for being such a jerk-wife. We made up right away, but I had to save the day with two pecan pies that I got from my mother earlier in the morning when I went to get my parents for dinner.

One thing that I have leaned since I have been married and have had my first two litters (the third is on the way), and that is that we often have unrealistic expectations about what we hope to accomplish during the holidays. We want everything perfect, we want everybody to act perfect, look perfect and to live up to those magically edited memories we have about the past. Such wishes could only come true if we had a magic wand and could poof everybody into our mental mold of perfection.

But everybody is broken and hurting and experiencing grief, pain or sadness at some point. Nobody is perfect, how could we expect them to be so for the perfect Norman Rockwell moment at the snap of our mental fingers? We cannot. We do not throw away our family and friends, we have to take them into our hearts from where they are coming from, warts and all. I have learned that I am weird, my family is weird and everybody else's family is just as weird. Normal Rockwell was an idealistic fluke that represented nothing close to reality.

I leaned that the bird might burn, the pies may taste like an oil well, your children may be angry or depressed and that your baby is this close to being an out-of-control-sugar-fueled-naked-ass-wild animal. But when we get together and we give praise for the blessings we have, and that we have each other to share in the love that has been give to us, it doesn't matter. Appearances and Things don't matter, people do. And so that is my prayer for all my friends, be thankful for your family and friends and the love and weirdness that they bring to your life.

By the time the games started and everybody was sated, everybody was in a jolly mood and enjoying each other's company. Rancor, sorrow, worry and fear were abolished, not by magic, but by the bonds of family love, despite all of our warts. I hope you all had as wonderful a Thanksgiving with your dysfunctional family as Weldon and I did with ours.

(PS...don't EVER put molasses in pecan pie...EVER!)

:) Thank you for sharing your Thanksgiving story with us. It made me smile. (I feel like I'm the Gwen of my family. Haha!) And I can't say much for pecan pie because I'm not much a fan of it (I love pumpkin pie), but my dad had fun making shoo-fly pie this year, and Whoo-ee! that is ....interesting. Molasses, sugar/brown sugar, flour, etc. etc. of more bad-for-you things. ^_^ Heehee! And my soon-to-be Uncle had fun making a pecan cheesecake (an awesome mixture of pecan pie on top of cheesecake). Anywho, I'm glad things turned out well with your family, and well wishes to the expecting mothers. :) I hope the rest of your holidays go well.
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I hope everone had a fantastic Thanksgiving... thank you for your sharing you wonderful, albeit a bit crazy Thanksgiving with all of us. I loved it. Nothing like a reminder of how things have been for aeons and will continue to be for aeons more. Family dynamics are facsinating!!

Are the fires past where you all are by now? I hope you and your not so wee ones and family got through it all ok.

Love to all and to all a good night!! 💋 ❤ 💋 ❤ 💋

.. I'm a corn syrup person myself though I love molasses, just not in pecan pie. I thought my Thanksgiving would be quiet this year and my son decided last minute to show up. We didn't have the traditional meal but both settled for Barbecue which was very good! Good to hear of yours and your family also! Don't lurk so much.. tells her that even though she does the same

sends hugs to and along with all her Bear friends..

: There were only a couple of grass fires near us that burned out quickly and so we were not in any danger. We live in Central California. My Author had several friends in Paradise who lost everything and at least one couple down in 1000 Oaks that lost everything. But we were not affected by fire this year. Only smoke. I'm glad you liked my crazy little story. I love to write about my family...it's so easy, they give me such good material to work with.

: I will try to not lurk so much, November is busy for me as I am trying to write everyday for NaNoWriMo.

: Thank you Sweetheart for your kind note. Pecan cheesecake sounds like a sweetness overload to me. It might be very yummy, but I have never heard of such a dessert. That crackling sound you hear as you eat it is your arteries hardening. I imagine you could only eat a very small slice at a time. You have a happy holiday season too my dear.