{"id":4048,"date":"2010-11-25T20:43:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T02:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2010-11-25T20:43:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T02:43:04","slug":"grateful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=4048","title":{"rendered":"Grateful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/moneysavingmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/shutterstock_63050782.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I hope you are all having a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and those who you love!  I can&#8217;t even list all that I am grateful for, but I&#8217;d like to start with my wonderful husband, my fabulous and talented children, my awesome parents and my brother and sisters, as well as the incredible family that I married into.  I love them like my own family.  I&#8217;ve been blessed way more than I deserve, and I am so thankful for all those who have sacrificed so that I can have the life I do.  I have a warm place to live, food enough to feed my family and share with others, and the freedom to practice the religion I believe in.  Truly blessed and truly grateful.<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;d like to share one of my favorite songs on gratitude.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ljji1ZtY2f0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ljji1ZtY2f0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I have a wonderful family, and I loved spending time with them today.  Thanksgiving was truly a party, with volleyball and basketball before and after the big meal.  The food was plentiful and delicious, and we all had a fabulous time.<\/p>\n<p>We even made these turkeys yesterday.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gLGOsirSkHc\/TNy4dBVwW3I\/AAAAAAAANp4\/QmCInD_kAVc\/s200\/turkeys+in+a+row.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThey took forever, and I should have used my own frosting instead of frosting from a can.  Now I know!  But it was a fun project to do with my kids.  <\/p>\n<p>I also made mountains of mashed potatoes, a huge jello salad, and this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourbestbites.com\/2009\/11\/easy-pumpkin-crumble.html\"><strong>easy pumpkin crumble<\/strong><\/a>.  I didn&#8217;t cook a turkey, but I do have one in the freezer that I&#8217;ll have to cook up in the next month or so, just so we can have leftovers.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving holiday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you are all having a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and those who you love! I can&#8217;t even list all that I am grateful for, but I&#8217;d like to start with my wonderful husband, my fabulous and talented children, my awesome parents and my brother and sisters, as well as the incredible family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,4,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4053,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions\/4053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}