SPlog

This Thanksgiving was great. My older brother, came down from Columbia with his wife. Also my uncle came from Texas. I woke up a bit earlier than the rest of the family for personal Bible devotions, and also to work on my website. My brother helped me get some properties working the way I wanted them to. We were able to catch up with each other.

My mom worked in the kitchen all morning, with Abigail and my sister-in-law helping get food ready. We all worked together to set the table when it came time for dinner to begin. We all sat down and thanked the Lord for what we had. We even played a small thanksgiving game where the first person tells one item that he is thankful for, then the next person says the same item then adds one, and it goes around the table back to the first person, who then has to name them all in order. The order I believe is: Wife (my brother’s), Friends (Abigail), Dr. Pepper (mine), Vicki (Dad’s), Home (Mom’s), Work (Uncle Dallas), Family (Grandma’s), and Salvation (sister-in-law’s).

We played a card game called golf for awhile, then my brother and his wife had to leave. We didn’t do much for the rest of the afternoon. But the crazyness came the next morning. Yep, we went out for Black Friday specials. I couldn’t believe the lines. There is a local music store that had a special on their t-shirts, if you bring some non-perishable foods in, you’d get a free t-shirt and a guitar cable. I didn’t want to take any food from my mom’s supply, so I thought I’d get some at one of the stores. One of the stops we had was walmart. I couldn’t believe the lines to check out. Here I was standing in line with 100 people in front of me, buying 2 cans of corn and beans, while others buy specials that were on sale. Anyway I got my shirt and cable, and so did Abigail. We stopped at several stores along the way including best buy, our local mall, and more.

The next day, Saturday, we celebrated my Dad’s 49th birthday. Matt and Lydia came over with their kids, and we had a great time. We played a playstation 2 game, and at one point, even got the laptops out to show eachother different stuff. But it wasn’t too long before my mom told us to put them away because were supposed to have “family time” to talk with eachother.

The whole time we had an awesome Thanksgiving weekend.

~Sam Paasch