Happy Thanksgiving 2009

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Things I’m thankful for:

• God – for all that He has given me.
• My husband – who supports me and my adventures.
• A roof over my head and a husband who has a stable job.
• My family for being there for me.  My dad especially has spent so much time, energy, and money, helping us out.  He makes the two hour drive to help us haul things and take lawn “trash” to the local compost heap.
• Creativity – from myself, D, and other bloggers.  How would we get our house redecorated without creativity?  There are so many inspirational people out there.
• Music – it gets me through the day and makes for some fun moments with D.
• Independent contracting – the mystery shopping, auditing, merchandising companies I do jobs for, writing this blog, and online auctions.
• Our 2 dogs and 3 cats for providing countless hours of entertainment (good or bad) and teaching us valuable lessons.

If you’re on here taking a break from cooking the turkey, don’t throw the turkey juice out!  Use it to make delicious and easy homemade gravy.

1 part butter (melt in a pot)

1 part flour (when butter’s melted, stir in)

8 parts turkey broth (when butter/flour gets thick, stir in a small amount of broth until thickened, repeat until all broth is used)

If you need concrete numbers instead of a ratio:

• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4 cup flour
• 2 cups broth (I got about 2.5 cups from a 14 pound turkey)