{"id":512,"date":"2008-11-20T16:05:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T16:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/11\/20\/another-thanksgiving-horrors-positiveholiday-comment\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:32","slug":"another-thanksgiving-horrors-positiveholiday-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/another-thanksgiving-horrors-positiveholiday-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Thanksgiving Horrors (positive!)holiday comment"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you read down a few posts, you will see that I wrote about the ‘holiday horrors’ and how this time of year can be so stressful for people with bipolar disorder. I have received some great comments. I posted one below and here is another one! <\/span><\/p>\n

There are always two sides to every issue!\u00a0 I swear, this letter is so lovely and the invitation so amazing, I should go!\u00a0<\/o><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0**<\/span><\/p>\n

Julie, even before I got to the end of your blog, I just knew I HAD to invite you to my house to celebrate Thanksgiving!\u00a0 <\/span>You are cordially invited to attend, and to bring along a guest!\u00a0 <\/span>Airfare this time of year is pricey, but you’d have fun and enjoy the area – I live in Stafford, Virginia, which is just south of Washington, DC in a very historic county – first settled in the 1600’s, boyhood home to George Washington.\u00a0 <\/span>I could go on just about my lovely area.\u00a0 <\/span>But I won’t!<\/o><\/span><\/o>\u00a0<\/span>I do hope you would seriously consider coming here for Thanksgiving some day, as it is by far my FAVORITE holiday.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Why?\u00a0 <\/span>I dearly love having a full table of family and friends enjoying a meal that I’ve planned for and enjoyed preparing.\u00a0 <\/span>I usually don’t get to cook or bake so elaborately since I commute to work, but that is one day where I indulge myself!\u00a0 <\/span>Turkey, gravy, fluffy mashed potatoes, butternut squash, veggies, homemade cranberry sauce and homemade dinner rolls…\u00a0 <\/span>And then there’s dessert!\u00a0 <\/span>I bake a very good pie – so far, I haven’t found any pie that beats mine for either taste or appearance (my grandmother said, “Never trust a woman who doesn’t like her own cookin’.”)\u00a0 <\/span>I bake cherry, pumpkin, apple, and caramel-pecan for dessert.\u00a0 <\/span>I may also add a trifle or pumpkin roll, as well, depending on the number of guests we expect. <\/o><\/span><\/o>\u00a0<\/span>I love the sound of the Thanksgiving Day parades on TV and the smells of turkey and pies emanating from the kitchen.\u00a0 <\/span>I don’t feel the stress that Christmas brings (the present issues get me stressed) and I am in no rush to rush Christmas, so the entire weekend is one to enjoy.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>I do not hit the stores on the Friday after Thanksgiving.\u00a0 <\/span>I’ll quilt, or garden, or some other enjoyable activity, and munch on leftovers for meals (mmm!)<\/o><\/span><\/o>\u00a0<\/span>I hope someday you may be able to share a similar feeling about Thanksgiving.\u00a0 <\/span>At any rate, feel free to consider yourself invited to our home for the holiday!<\/o><\/span><\/o>\u00a0<\/span>Most sincerely,<\/o><\/span>Sandra\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/o><\/span>\u00a0<\/o><\/span>**Thank you Sandra! People are so wonderful! So,\u00a0now that you have read the\u00a0few posts before this one, you\u00a0have some ideas on how to spend\u00a0the holiday next week. What will work for you to keep you happy and stable on this traditional day? <\/o><\/span>\u00a0Julie <\/o><\/span><\/o>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you read down a few posts, you will see that I wrote about the ‘holiday horrors’ and how this time of year can be so stressful for people with bipolar disorder. I have received some great comments. I posted one below and here is another one! <\/p>\n

There are always two sides to every issue! I swear, this letter is so lovely and the invitation so amazing, I should go! <\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Julie, even before I got to the end of your blog, I just knew I HAD to invite you to my house to celebrate Thanksgiving! You are cordially invited to attend, and to bring along a guest! Airfare this time of year is pricey, but you’d have fun and enjoy the area – I live in Stafford, Virginia, which is just south of Washington, DC in a very historic county – first settled in the 1600’s, boyhood home to George Washington. [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12129,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/12129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}