Happy Thanksgiving, may you all be well
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Heather talks about public tantrums (from kids) on today's Momversation.
- RIP Louis Mortimer Armstrong: http://bit.ly/1R4tv6
- Hugs and kisses to you, too! RT: @Monkey_Tree: @dooce he probably committed suicide because he was tired of LISTENING TO YOU WHINE.
- Our fish just died. And I'm sitting here crying. And it wasn't even my fault!
1. eastcoast said:
and you...
2. Kristin said:
Happy Thanksgiving!
3. Brooke said:
Happy Thanksgiving, Heather, Jon, Leta and Chuck. :)
4. Alex said:
Gobble squared.
5. Kristina said:
Happy Thanksgiving, Heather and Co. I know you have so much to be thankful for - and we're so thankful for YOU!
6. Angie said:
I'm thankful for this website - thank you! (It keeps me sane whilst I have sneaky peeks at work).
7. Minla said:
Happy Turkey Day! Leta's first. I hope you're feeding her the GOOD cranberry sauce. Jellied with the imprint of the can on it.
8. Sarah said:
Happy Turkey Day to all the Armstrong Clan, may you all be well and eat well.
9. domino said:
hey look! Number 9!
Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in the US.
10. Dale said:
Happy Thanksgiving!
Interesting picture... where was it taken?
And *you* be well also.
11. Moxie said:
Happy Thanksgiving Dooce to you and your dear little family and to the readers of your site.
Curious if honey-glazed cheek de Leta is on the menu for today?
12. Katerina said:
I'm thankful for the wonder that is dooce.com!
Have a wonderful day, Armstrongs!
13. natalie said:
happy thanksgiving from the very white great lakes state! cheers!
14. ginger said:
Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Heather.
Oh, and Charlie the wonder hampster hopes your holiday is a ball.
http://gingerbeck.blogspot.com/2004/11/thanksgiving-wishes.html
15. megchem said:
Happy Thanksgiving....but what the hell is that a picture of?
16. SD said:
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
I check this site when I wake up in the morning and at night before shutting down the machine for the last time. Thank you so much for putting in all the work.
SD
17. Mir said:
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, Heather. :)
(Please take the obligatory baby-wrestling-with-a-turkey-drumstick picture for future posting. Pretty please.)
18. julian said:
ditto!
Christ you people are quick off the mark. Do you all site there at 7 in the morning waiting to post here? I got distracted for 5 minutes and look what happens!
19. Sarah in Alaska said:
Happy Thanksgiving from my little corner of Alaska. Beautiful picture!
20. julian said:
ditto!
hmmm.. not sure what happend there... if this ends up being a poste duple then I'm sorry.
21. Dale Cruse said:
Woohoo! Not first! (So much cooler that way.)
22. kim said:
happy thanksgiving to the amazing armstrong-family and all the rest of you readers from good old germany. i am so jealous of the turkey and the holiday but also thankful for tons of things even without any turkey. enjoy your families..
23. Anita said:
Wow.
That is a beautiful picture.
Happy T'day from the south.
It's real cold here: 50 degrees. ;-)
24. Colleen from NJ said:
Happy Thanksgiving to the Armstrongs and everyone!!
I have a picture request, Heather: Leta and mashed potatoes...
25. Kimberly said:
Happy Anniversary to the Armstrong clan and to the Dooce.com commenting clan from beautiful South Jersey!
26. Kimberly said:
Um..I meant Thanksgiving. For some reason, I've been wishing everyone a Happy Anniversary instead of Thanksgiving. Ask the people I work with.
(face red)
27. Mary Lynn said:
Wasn't Thanksgiving LAST month? ;-)
Happy Thanksgiving wishes from Canada.
ML
28. christilee said:
Tappy Hanksgiving.
29. Sheryl said:
Kimberly,
Well it *is* the anniversary of Thanksgiving - so you're right!
H a p p y T h a n k s g i v i n g
Peace and Love
30. Heather 2 said:
Happy Thanksgiving to all
31. Jenn said:
Happy Thanksgiving Heather, Jon, Leta and Dooce. May this holiday find you happier, healthier and hornier.
Cheers.
32. Liz said:
Cheers!
33. popsicle said:
let us give thanks and praise.
thanks to movable type and Leta's desire to nap twice a day and praise to Heather B. Arsmstrong and her website.
Happy Happy Thanksgiving to everybody. God Bless.
btw - gorgeous picture - but what in the world is it? Only your camera can capture something so beautiful, and yet I'll have no idea what it is. I love that !!
34. hayley said:
can someone PLEASE explain what this photo is? am i just missing something here?
35. nance said:
beautiful photo. but what is it?!
happy thanksgiving to heather, jon, and leta and everyone who reads dooce :)
36. becaru said:
Photo looks like its taken through trees with the moon behind them.
Then wrappen up the Dooce effect.
Happy T day.
37. Janice said:
WOOOO HOOO! I am #37!!!! :)
38. lulu cornichon said:
Deep peace of the roasted turkey to you
Deep peace of the jiggly tofurkey to you
Deep peace of the groaning table to you
Deep peace of the squabbling kids to you
Deep peace of the mashed potatoes to you
Deep peace of the pumpkin pie to you
Deep peace of the family day to you
[shamelessly "interpreted" from a celtic prayer, but I mean every word. Take good care, y'all.]
39. Em said:
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!! I am certainly thankful that I can come here and remember that laughing at life is good!
40. JuJuBee said:
Happy Thanksgiving, thankful you are feeling better, Heather!
41. Dr. Johnny Fever said:
I'm thankful for being number 40 today.
42. Seema said:
Happy Thanksgiving to you, Jon and Leta!
43. Shiz said:
Happy Thanksgiving to all from someone who has to work today, up here in Canada. But yet, I am thankful.
Heather, I am so glad, so thankful, that you are feeling much better. I know that feeling myself. Bless you all, Armstrongs.
44. sab said:
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY!
45. Paula said:
Happy Thanksgiving Dooce and Family!
46. suger said:
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! I am thankful for your site which I check out daily...if not more:)
47. Dyanna said:
You guys have a great Thanksgiving filled with loving family, Avon freebies, midday naps, doggie licks and lots and lots of wrestling!
(You guys means not only the Armstrongs, but the Hamiltons and everyone that posts on this website) :-)
48. vio said:
happy thanksgiving to the blurbodoocery family!!
-from indiana, where the turkeys grow wild and the girls grow wilder
49. termagaunt said:
Art is never so easily defined as "what it is," but "what it captures," so I don't think it's so important to know "what is it?" as much as "what do you make of it?", "what do you see in it?", or "how does it make you feel?" It's like the Pastoral Symphony -- if it wasn't named that, would we know there was a narrative applied to it?
The photo's lovely; warm, autumnal, tranquil. The four-way symmetry reminds me of Native American art or pagan ceremony. The colours are settling; peace. The hint of moonlight behind the trees (regardless what it "is," this is what I see in it as well) indicative of light emerging from shadow, optimism, the bliss in allowing oneself to set aside the shadows and doldrums of daily life -just- for a day.
Don't mean to seem an art theory snot; the short of it is gorgeous, whatever it may be.
50. Allan said:
Cheers!
51. Michelle said:
Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself and for doing it with such honesty, eloquence and humor.
52. The Mighty Jimbo said:
i'm thankful you are well.
and thanks again for sharing with us.
53. Jenny said:
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Lovely picture today!
54. jenny said:
have a happy one, dooce, leta, jon, and chuck.
Maybe it's a pumpkin? Carved very intricately- backlit by a candle?
55. shannon c said:
It's the moon through the trees...at least that is what I see.
Gobble gob-gobble!!
56. Mari said:
what a beautiful picture! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
57. sweetney said:
heather, re: the photo -- you haven't been "born again" or something, have you? heh.
much happiness to everyone who reads this. whilst you all imbibe your turkeys and giblets, i'll be sitting alone at home, tending to a very sick 2-year-old. because my life sucks like that.
gobble gobble.
58. Coelecanth said:
We Canadians have already done Thanksgiving, but it never hurts to remember the things you're grateful for. For me that includes those who choose to share the hope, joy, pain, humour and poop of their lives with a bunch o' webbed up strangers.
Thank you.
59. rubber-sol said:
Such a great shot -- what is that?! Very intriguing.
Happy Thanksgiving to you too!
60. coskel said:
Happy Thanksgiving to one and all- have a good weekend listerinis!!
61. Erin said:
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
62. Kahli said:
Thanks to all of you,
Happy Thanksgiving and deep peace to everyone. (that is such a nice phrase)
Cheers!
63. Kahli said:
It looks like a "leaf-via-Dooce-effect" picture of Chuck.
Here I go again with my theories of what things look like!
Cheers!
64. Calli said:
Happy Thanksgiving, Heather and family! I hope you and your family are well and are having a fantastic year. God bless.
65. Danika said:
Have a happy thanksgiving!!
66. Kim said:
Happy Thanksgiving Heather, Jon, Leta and Chuck!!
67. Krystal said:
Happy Thanksgiving. Have a really good one, you all deserve it.
68. laura said:
Do you have turkey on both Thanksgiving and Christmas? Two turkey dinners would be more than I could bear!!
Happy Thanksgiving.
69. Danika said:
The picture looks like its in the shape of a cross. It looks like the sun rising through a forest of trees. Or a really large full moon through trees. It also kinda looks like a bunch of little sprites (tinkerbells :D).
I AM curious what it really is.
70. tracy said:
you make me smile everyday. thank you :)
71. Em said:
Happy Thanksgiving to you, Heather. I am thankful that you are feeling better and happy.
Thanks for making me laugh and think everyday.
72. Dawn said:
Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving surrounded by those you love, celebrating life, good health, love and peace!
73. h said:
what in the holy hot hell is that? i mean, it's lovely, but it escapes me. and look at me, can't enjoy anything unless i can label it. so sad really.
happy tgiving day to all you americans out there!
74. Kathryn said:
Your writing is so personal and funny, and then you insert soemthing poignant. I like that. I like how you make me laugh, sometimes soften my heart with compassion, and generally learn to take life less personally (certainly less seriously). I talk about you occasionally to friends as if you are one, as in, "You know what I heard happened to Dooce?" Then I tell the story. They think I'm a nut. Only webheads really understand.
Thank you for sharing your talents and your life with us. I raise my glass to you today.
75. mrs.jack said:
Happiest of Turkey Day greetings!
Leta make sure to put some yummy turkey in your mouth and not just your hair.
76. donnaly said:
bright blessings on the entire Armstrong family on this day of thanks
77. cindi said:
happy thanksgiving to you and your family!
it's truly amazing how one person can touch so many lives. i am thankful for you and your courage to share your story with the rest of us. and your pictures! amazing!
thank YOU!
78. Em 2 said:
Yes, Dooce- it feels like you are a friend. Thank you with all sincerity for sharing your gifts. You enrich my life-honestly. You are my favorite web writer- ever!!!Happy Thanksgiving to you and your hot husband and beautiful baby girl. We are all blessed by your existence.
79. Lori J said:
Happy Thanksgiving! I am soooo thankful for you Heather. Love your blog. It keeps me going every day.
80. curiouskiwi aka Brenda said:
Happy Turkey Day from an ex-pat American and her Kiwi crew. Enjoy the day. P.S. Can you send us a turkey? A 15-pounder here costs about $45!
81. JP said:
From my family to yours, have a very, very Happy Thanksgiving.
82. Mason said:
Happy Thanksgivng Dooce and remember, cranberries prevent scurvy.
83. Kelli said:
Happy Thanksgiving Heather, Jon, Leta, and Chuck! I wish all of you the very best.
84. Chris S said:
Happy thanksgiving from the troops in Bahrain.
85. MrsDof said:
Happy Thanksgiving! to everyone at Dooce.
That picture up there is very intriguing. Was it taken through the stained glass of a front door?
Goodness, Kiwi (comment 80) that would be a real expensive bird. The frozen kind at our grocery store is 49c per pound. But shipping from Illinois would cost more.
My sister thinks I'm crazy for getting a humanely raised, organically fed, never frozen, hen turkey from an Amish farm. $1.89 per pound, which seems like too much until it hits the tastebuds --YUM! And the leftovers go for ages. This is a great holiday.
86. curiouskiwi aka Brenda said:
Oh, MrsDof, your turkey sounds yummy!
87. steph said:
Happy Thanksgiving!!
88. Big Gay Sam said:
Come on 'fess up! what in the hell is that thang?
89. eco2geek said:
Thanks to Dooce for producing one of the most entertaining (and occasionally thought-provoking) blogs on the Internet. And for allowing people space to express themselves.
Thanks to those who post here. Your comments are often as entertaining as the Dooce's are.
And finally, thanks to GNP Consulting, Ltd. for making the "Banana Guard":http://www.bananaguarduk.com/ so that my bananas won't get squished on the way to work. (Just kidding.)
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
90. jen said:
Happy Thanksgiving Armstrongs!
I realised that it's been just over two years since I started reading Dooce- it has been such an eventful time for you all, I am so glad that everything has worked out so wonderfully and that you (Heather) are back on your feet again and feeling so much better about yourself now. You so deserve this happiness. Definitely a uber-prayer (in a non-faith non-denominational way) to be said for that during this Thanksgiving for your guys.
91. Bruce said:
gobble gobble hey
92. MrsDoF said:
OK, we have a bit of a problem here. While I was reading Dooce and Comments last time, I asked my (home-from-college for the holiday) son to take the pan of pumpkin squares out of the oven when the Timer beeped. I neglected to say to leave the oven going. Out of habit, he turned it Off.
I finished with this lovable distraction, then went into the kitchen and put the turkey into the oven. Did Not notice the Off marking on the dial. Almost an hour later, I am about to begin fixing all the other goodies, then I see the Off. So we are going to be eating an hour later than planned. This is not the worst that could happen....They ate dessert first.
And I really should stay away from the computer, but there are naps going on in other rooms. What a laid-back holiday.
93. wow said:
Happy Thanksgiving to one and all from the beautiful Pacific Northwest!
94. Christine said:
Lovely picture! Just stopping by to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving, and let you know I enjoy your blog!
95. Bec said:
Great photo, very artsy :)
96. 0123 said:
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Undoubtably. But what's the point?
The point is that when your infant child engages ina potentially life threatening activity, "and there is water everywhere. Should I wipe up the carpet or the baby first?"
You should do neither. Instead, you should inform us, your loyal, equally infantile, but more articulate readership. The kid needs to learn from her actions. Leave her alone for a while. We're more important anyway. :P
97. super turtle girl said:
And may you all eat well...and nap well!
Hope Chuck is getting some treats!
98. johannanana said:
Dooce, I love your site so much. Some of the best writing on the web. Whenever you come out to San Francisco I'm always keeping just a little bit more of a lookout up because, ohmygod, what if I saw you? Also, the Mormons here are great. Once of my really good friends is open, smart, writer of a Mormon-the best kind.
99. Heatheranne said:
Happy Thanksgiving!
100. Audrey said:
Thanks, Heather, for sharing wonderful stuff like this with the world.
Does anyone else see seeds in that picture?
101. DeAnn said:
And happy Thanksgiving to all of you!
102. robyn said:
Happy first Thanksgiving to Leta! Hope she enjoyed hers as much as our l'il one did his!
103. Stephanie said:
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families!
104. Sheryl said:
I'm back - was thinking about this image earlier and came back to look at it. It is beautiful. And I was thinking of it as an interesting visual puzzle.
I think the bottom and left branches of the cross are made from the same rectangular image, rotated. Same with the top and right branches from a second image.
The center is a square image, also a composite. The bottom left is made up of two small images, and the top and the right side of the center square are two other larger rectangular images (I think) mitered together at the top right corner.
And I think the images (might be) of light passing through branches, and movement.
105. Ali said:
Happy Thanksgiving Heather & Co.
106. me said:
I thought the shot looked like a turkey wrapped in foil in the oven then given the dooce effect.. Hmm..
107. Gia on Guam said:
My initial guess was the inside of a cornacopia but that wouldn't explain the light in a seemingly geometric shape. I now think it is the underside of a thatched roof...or something.
108. Shannon said:
Beautiful picture.
Happy Thanksgiving to all
109. media girl said:
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
110. eddeaux said:
HAPPY THANKSGIVING INTERNET PEOPLE THAT I LOVE BUT DON'T REALLY KNOW!!
Happy Thanksgiving Heather, I am thankful for you and Jon, and Leta Bird and Chuckles.
111. beck said:
Happy thanksgiving! And I use the nads threat all the time.
112. al said:
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
113. shana said:
I thought turkey or wheat....
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanks for being so awesome, Heather!
114. coffeegirl said:
Everytime I visit your site I fall in love with your family a little more. Have a great holiday.
115. Jazzy said:
I hope your Thanksgiving was filled with warmth and family and friends.
116. cee said:
Thanks! And a wonderful holiday weekend to you and your family!
117. Sasha said:
It's time to update!
118. stefanie said:
eek! no new pic
119. lauragayle said:
Happy post-Thanksgiving to the Armstrongs! Love your blog and thank you for introducing a new word (I'm behind the times, obviously) to the vocabulary: dooce.
Hope you are not constipated today! ;0
120. Kim said:
I am grateful for you and your site. And I'm so happy you're feeling better. Happy Thanksgiving!
121. different kim said:
happy thanksgiving dooce, blurbomat, leta and the former congressmen. you so rock.
122. lulu cornichon said:
Happy Leftover Day!
As far as I'm concerned, yesterday was just the lead-up to today, the *real* holiday, when there's no more cooking to do, and we can all just sit around in our pajamas with our books and our turkey sandwiches and our pie for breakfast.
Aaaaaah!
123. beachgal said:
Bah! I wish I could sit around in my pajamas....some of us had to work today. Oh how I wish I were at home.
124. lulu cornichon said:
:-(
Sorry, beachgal, and the rest of the properly-employed world. I hope you at least had a good break yesterday, and will have a mashedpotatofull tomorrow.
125. Pie For Breakfast said:
Right on!!
126. GMM said:
Looks to me like something in tin foil in a dark room with a fire.
127. PKD said:
Knock, knock. Anyone home?
128. beachgal said:
I did have a good day off yesterday, and was looking forward to the weekend, even though hubby is going out of town. Only now he might now go because he's hurt his back at work. Don't know how bad. I can never have a good run of things without something bad getting in there too. Bah! Life will go on.
Hope all is well with Ms. Dooce. She probably just ate too much turkey.
129. Charmaine said:
Happy T-day belated, Heather et al. By the way, what is that image of?
130. jackie said:
where'd ya go?
131. Brian said:
I don't remember you clearing this extended absence with us.
Hope all is well.
132. PKD said:
Jon has a new post up, so maybe Dooce just decided she needed a day off.
And maybe we just need to get a life.
133. christilee said:
I ate way too much of that.
134. Kieran said:
GOD BLESS THE LOGN WEEKEND!
135. me said:
OK, I am getting rather concerned about your absence..
#1 because gawd knows what awful tragic thing could have happened to one of you. and #2 the amount of times I have checked your site for updates... Scary...
136. Mo said:
I've been in exactly that position. I think it's only fair for the girl to threaten nads when faced with such a position.
and by the way, your punctuation is the shiz-nit.
137. dj blurb said:
People. Sometimes it's nice to take a break. Please don't worry. Heather is fine. She needed to rest and take a day off.
138. Melanie S said:
Happy Thanksgiving to the wonderful Armstrong clan.
I want to read all of the comments so that I'm "in the know", but being that I woke up to go shopping at 4am this morning and have not taken a nap, I would much rather scrape my eyes out with hot fork of displeasure!
Goodnight Doocites!
139. Dipali said:
Im wondering if I can be the last one today !
btw..Happy Thanksgiving to Dooce et al..
140. Caroline said:
I too checked for updates an alarming number of times. I hope you get to sleep in some. Oh, and what kind of workout do you do? I know you've got awesome genetics from the picture of your mom, but you must be doing something right. Please tell.
141. Caroline said:
Heh, fat chance Dipali, it's only 12. Although I'm glad the trend caught on.
142. popsicle said:
i just woke up from the turkey overload..what is it ....
Trip-to-phan - that makes us sleepy, or is it the 1751 1/2 bottles of redwine.
whoever said drinking around family wasnt the right thing to do, i need to talk to them.
gobble gobble....keep gobbling.
dang dooce, missed your entry today..dont you have mobile ability coupled with time on your hands. heres a kiss from Julianne to Leta...mmmccchhhh !
bring it.
i love everyone.
143. Peter Hentges said:
Love the Google ads this time around: "Wwe Wresting" and "Dating Tips for Men."
144. Caroline said:
Hmm...who will be last?
145. sophie said:
not you.
146. lulu cornichon said:
Me!
(for now...)
147. Gordon said:
Do I get to be last?
Intresting picture
Heather sings in a Christian rock group huh? Always knew that the Mormon influence was just being suppressed. :)
148. sophie said:
no.
149. dooce said:
nope. I'm last. HAHAHAHAHA