Tell Your Thanksgiving Story here In Words & Pictures

[Paulette Le Pore Motzko]

Thanksgiving is a Time to Remember

 

 

 

 

Facebook Graphics, Thanksgiving Graphicsat WishAFriend.com

Facebook Graphics, Thanksgiving Graphics at WishAFriend.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some things are just plan so good they never go out of style like writing about the things you are most thankful for. November isn't too far away and Thanksgiving is just around the corner.

I wrote this last year and many shared what they were thankful for. I am thankful that my mom is doing as well as she is after my dad's passing going on two weeks ago. He was suffering in the end so I know he is in a better place now.

What are your holiday traditions that you keep alive to make your Thanksgiving Special?

Polly Motzko

October 3rd, 2012

 

 

 

 

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Originally Posted November 22, 2011

by Paulette Le Pore Motzko on

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Share what you are thankful for-no matter what it is, it isn't so much the turkey, the yams, the pumpkins or the stuff, but to look and be thankful for all that you have that IS GOING RIGHT IN YOUR LIFE AND THE GOOD PEOPLE IN IT.

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What are you most thankful for?

Your health?

Your family?

Your friends?

All three?

Share what you are thankful for and add a special photo that you feel depicts the THANKSGIVING SPIRIT.

I hope that more people write on here this year and add photographs of either people or events or anything else you are thankful for.

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Polly Motzko

November 5th, 2011

My parent's 62cnd anniversary.

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad

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[Linda Rowan]

Paulette,

Thank you for including me in your Thanksgivings!  I am also thankful that we have found one another....Together we can do some good for the Disabled Community!  I have said recently (and really only come to this realization in the past few months) that I would not trade my life for a life of perfect health, without wheelchairs and handicap vans....I have been able to meet so many new people because of my illness and have helped a lot more to look at their life differently...to be thankful for what you have been able to do and what you have been able to accomplish in your life rather than to be depressed and concentrate on what you "CAN'T do anymore!  CAN'T is not in my vocabulary anymore!  I CAN accomplish anything that I set my mind to...I may have to ask for help..but that only makes me appreciate my husband and all of my friends more.  So let's all concentrate on all of the memories and be glad that we were able to do things that put a smile on our faces when we think about them.....Continue to know that God will have a lot of really great surprises for us, surprises that we couldn't even imagine today.  My Ultimate THANK YOU is to God!

(((((HUGS!))))) to all of my friends, and have a great Day and a wonderful Holiday Season!

 

[Linda Rowan]

I want to give Thanks to my parents who were so good that I didn't even know what a great childhood I had until I grew up.  I am walking today after having Polio at age 3 (and being a quadriplegic afterward) thanks to them!  My deep Faith was instilled by my Mama and nurtured by her to the end.  I had an idyllic childhood, growing up here at the beach in South Carolina...with the then-not-open to the public Huntington Beach State Park and Atalaya as my playground....I was spoiled and didn't know it....I miss my parents so much...this will be my 2nd Christmas without Mama....To those of you who still have your parents, don't miss a chance to be with them and always say "I love you!"

[Paulette Le Pore Motzko]

I am thankful for my health, most of all, and for the pills I take, Vimpat & Tegretol for epilepsy. Together I am almost seizure free now and it enables me to do all I do now.

I am also thankful for seeing the fruits of my labors in creating The CA Restaurant ShowCase.com at CARestaurantShowCase.com, and I enjoy seeing my clients love the photos I take and the stories I write. It is like a production that is never boring.

I am thankful for the new friends I have met this year and for the contributions of Teresa Reale La Pasticciona and Linda Rowan on this site, as well as Purabi Naha, and my continued friendship with Chef Chuck Kerber, Ben Carlton, Claudia Lamascolo, and sweet Yesim Caglar who always brightens my day when I hear from her.

I am thankful that my family is becoming closer each day and I am seeing my dreams become a reality each day.

There are so many in my life I am thankful for and will never mention them all, but and so many more as well as my friends Sabrina, Kimberly, Myle and Kristen.

I am thankful that dad is doing better and we have hospice coming in now 5 days a week so I can spend more quality time with mom, making great memories to come!

God bless you all for reading this.

I wish you health if you don't have it,

A heart full of love, warmth and joy if you are spending it alone.

(I know, because I have spent many of them that way!)

I hope you are able to enjoy even a little feast with someone else and pray together that you are alive and well and are thankful. Remember, no matter how bad off you feel you are, there is always someone else worse off than you.

Paulette Le Pore Motzko

November 22, 2011

7:23 p.m.

PUT A SMILE ON MY FACE AND YOU TAKE YOUR TURN ON TELLING WHAT YOU ARE THANKFUL FOR AND ADDING A FEW THANKSGIVING PHOTOS TOO!

[Carl Lee Frye]

thanksgiving has been real good for the past 11 years.plenty of food,friends,fellowship,but at times I think about the times I did without food when I was homeless,and think about the homeless we have now.I wish I could feed and cloth the whole world,but i know one man can't do everything.only god can.Each thankgiving I always pray that god will give more than what I have to the poor and needy.I try to stay as positive as I can.I pray that everyone on paulettes site and paulette will have a wonderful thanksgiving,and when you pray pray for the ones that will have nothing to eat that god will give them a meal on thanksgiving and everyday.

[Paulette Le Pore Motzko]

Why would I feature an article about Thanksgiving in the middle of Summer? Because it was the most popular blog article of all the ones I ran. You can be thankful any time of the year and you can share what makes you thankful here now, even though Thanksgiving is still 3-1/2 months ago.

 

Add what you are thankful for here and let feel the warm happy thoughts flood your mind.

 

 

 

Paulette Le Pore Motzko

August 15th, 2011

 

[Paulette Le Pore Motzko]

This is the most popular blog post on here, according to the Ning Statistics on the Ning Network here. There is always something to be THANKFUL FOR, even when it isn't Thanksgiving or November. or there isn't a turkey on the table with all the trimmings.

What are some things that you are thankful for TODAY?

 

I will write my answer to that question after some of you, my readers and the 109 members add some of their insights and thoughts.

 

Paulette Le Pore Motzko

January 20th, 2011

11:23 p.m.

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What did you do with your family or friends that you would like to share with others that makes your Thanksgiving Celebration special?

Any pics of the big bird and tables settings etc... you would like to share?

Polly Motzko

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[Paulette Le Pore Motzko]

What a wonderful and inspiring story you shared Carl! I am so happy that you looked me up and Facebook.com and we are in touch once again from our high school days at Garden Grove High. :-)

I am honored to know you and I am so happy that you and Bonnie have each other and can share Thanksgiving together.

I am going to spend the day with my parents-Ramona & Carl and dad is going to take mom and I to Norm's for their Turkey, home made mashed potatoes and giblet gravy, fresh candied sweet potatoes and fresh cranberry sauce...and of course some pumpkin pie.

I bought all the things including a really huge, well built roaster to make Thanksgiving and invested about $100 into it. I am still going to make it all, but I will buy the turkey after Thanksgiving when the birds go on sale. :-) I am going to make the stuffing in one of my crock pots, the sweet potatoes in another crock pot and the bird in the oven. I am going to make the recipe in the current Bon Appetit Magazine-Butterflied Turkey with a dressing of ricotta and fennel etc.. under the skin. It supposedly cooks in 1/2 the time because it lays flat with the breast downward-making it more moist.

God bless you Carl & Bonnie. I hope to one day see you again Carl and meet in person your lovely wife Bonnie.

Paulette Le Pore Motzko