" THE BEST HOLIDAY DRESSING "....easy and so good!

Hi there...it's Thanksgiving time....time for all good cooks to get busy in the kitchen. So, I have gathered my helpers and off we go to make the best Thanksgiving dinner ever! But first, before I share the best ever recipe with you, you must answer a question....

" Why did the Pilgrims pants keep falling down?"~~~~"Because they wore their belt buckles on their hats silly!"

Ok...get your sharp knives out (you're a big enough girl, I trust you not to cut your fingers)...and your vintage aprons on...you can chop the mushrooms.....good job!

Oh my, look what we did...good job little helpers...you're all hired! If you kids can do this anybody can right?
Shall we share this great recipe?.... Ok, here goes!

" Holiday Dressing "

Brown: 1 lb. of Sausage
1 onion, chopped
2 Cups chopped celery
Cook til starting to soften.
Add: 2 cups of chopped, fresh mushrooms
a little parsley
then add: (all in the same skillet)
1 tsp. Poultry seasoning
1 1/2 tsp. Sage
1 1/2 tsp. Salt
1/2 tsp. Pepper
Mix this all together and continue browning
Add: 1 package of Craisins
Turn on low

Mix together: 1 cup melted butter
2 eggs...beaten
1 can Cream of Mushroom soup
1 can (10 oz.) of Chicken Broth
Mix this with the browned meat and veggie mixture.

Pour all of this over...
1 loaf (any kind) of bread
that you have broken into small pieces and let dry the day before. Mix together.

Put into a 9x13 pan lined with foil (put a little water in under the foil)
Cover with foil too....Bake 325'-350'..for 1 Hour
Take foil off the last 15 Min. to let top brown.

This recipe always gets the compliments rolling in...
it is so good the day of and the days after too. I hope you'll give it a try, it's so easy and so good!

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I love the poem called ... "Home"... by Edgar A. Guest.

It speaks of things I love about a home; about how we appreciate home after we have grown up and left it, how we look back and remember all the good. That it doesn't make a difference how rich we get or how many chairs and tables we have or how much they cost. How is isn't a home until our soul is wrapped around it.

Home is not a place that gold can buy in a minute, before it's a home there's got to be a heap of living in it. There's got to be babies born raised up to be good women and men. Where we find we wouldn't want to part with anything they ever used because it's grown into your heart. Their old high chairs, the playthings, the little shoes they wore, and if you could, you'd leave the their finger prints all around.

How you've got to weep to make it a home, and sit and sigh and watch beside a loved ones bed, and know that death is nigh. These scenes that grip the heart, and when your tears are dried, you find that home is dearer than it was, now sanctified. And tuggin at you always are the pleasant memories that tie our hearts together, forever!

You've got to sing and dance, to romp and play, and learn to love the things you have by using them each and every day. Even the roses 'round the porch must bloom year by year, so that you can remember the one who loved them, and trained them to get that early morning sun .
You've got to love each brick and stone from the cellar to the dome...it takes a heap of living in a house... to make it a home!
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Well, with all my kids and spouses and grand kids coming, we will have a home full for about 4 days. I'm so excited for them to come.

We have a lovely dinner with the china and crystal set out beautifully. We eat too much and talk and talk, everyone helps to clean up the dishes, it's quite the scene!...Some football is watched...crafts and play for the grand kids, a little target shooting, movies and games in the evening. Then the next day we'll go up into the mountains for those who want to cut a Christmas tree. We have lucked out most years and got into snow..that makes it so much fun!

Sending all of you, all my love, and wishing you a... VERY..HAPPY THANKSGIVING with your loved ones. May your house feel like a home always and forever!