Thanksgiving Eve

Hannah had to help daddy make pumpkin pies today. She loves to help with any kind of baking

Yes, my husband loves to make pies.

She also wanted to help break the bread up for the stuffing. My husband makes some of the best stuffing I have tasted. It is almost as good as the stuff my great grandmother used to make.

We did as much prep as possible this afternoon good thing because my husband is on call for the holiday weekend and is working all evening. We will get up and make the stuffing in the morning before he goes in to make rounds. We usually have Thanksgiving at our house but since Ron is working we will be having dinner at his brother's.

The pies turned out great....Hannah was a little disappointed we couldn't eat some until tomorrow.

Why We Celebrate Thanksgiving

On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a formal proclamation, passed by an Act of Congress, initiating the first annual National Day of Thanksgiving:No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy...I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens....[ it is] announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord....It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people.

AMEN