The Blended Blog Asks – Giving Thanks Edition

Linking up with The Blended Blog and Giving Thanks!

• Have you ever kept a gratitude journal?

I’ve tried multiple times, but ultimately I forget my journal at home when I’m at work or at work when I’m home for the weekends and it just dies out. I need to find a good app on my phone to use and try to keep one up that way (New Year’s goal maybe?!?). I know writing down things you are grateful for is very important for a person’s health and well-being. I went to a conference this past year and Shawn Achor was a featured speaker and his presentation was very enlightening about how expressing gratitude changes the pathways in your brain and other stuff. He has a TedTalk and a couple of books out…they are on my “want to watch/read” lists!

• Hosting Thanksgiving at your house?

Nope…maybe someday I will try it when the girls are older, but for now I just can’t. We go to my in-laws and/or my parent’s house.

• Favorite Food from the Thanksgiving Meal?

Oh goodness…that’s hard. I will always love mashed potatoes and gravy, but the older I get the more I enjoy turkey, dressing, and cranberry sauce mixed together.

• What one thing in Nature are you most grateful for?

Right now it is the fall leaves. We haven’t had a pretty fall in awhile and this year it is just gorgeous and I am just amazed at God’s beauty and creativity in it all!

• Pumpkin Pie?

Yes, as long as it has whipped cream with it.

• Traditional Cookbook?

Yes, I like a good beautiful cookbook. One of my current favorites is “Love, Welcome, Serve” by Amy Hannon (a lady right here in NWA!).

• Oven-baked or Deep-fried Turkey?

Both

• Thanksgiving Leftovers?

I’m not a leftover kind of girl (just ask my husband), but I like to have Thanksgiving leftovers the day after (any more than that and it just gets old).

• What is one household product you are most grateful for?

Wipes…baby wipes and Lysol wipes. They make it easy to clean up almost anything quickly.

• Are you most grateful for home cooked meals or restaurant meals?

I like a good home cooked meal, but they are few and far between these days for us. I admit I like home cooked food for holidays, but if it helps my mom and mother-in-law to not stress as much and be able to spend more time with the family, than a restaurant meal is perfectly fine with me.

Until next time…Keep it simple!

Lindsey