Last Monday I decided I needed to take a break from this little spot in my kitchen where I work on my computer when I’m not at the school and head off to P-Dub’s book signing. I’m so glad I did.
My sweet friend Mrs Mama arranged the whole thing. She made coffee, packed snacks, printed no less than twenty Google Maps with directions and reminded me to charge the battery in my camera. She would make such a great Girl Scout, it’s too bad she can’t remember to take off the lens cap of her own camera.
I remembered to pack my Kodak Easyshare circa 2004, two granola bars, THE cookbook and all my chins. Do I need to tell you that Mrs Mama took all the good photos? Probably not, but she did.
There were several people in the crowd that I knew personally. This is Ann, she goes to church with me and that is her friend and sweet baby girl.
This is Mandy, one of my very good college friends that lives in KC. Yes, she is very tiny. Yes, I am very tall and I was wearing heels. I have a lot of Mandy stories that I should tell you someday.
We did a lot of this all night long. Laughing, not hair tugging. There is no hope for me in the laugh line department. I have them, send Botox please.
Look, another small person! This is Mary she started a blog not long ago.
This is Clint, Mary’s husband. He works for the same firm as Clay. He texted Clay asking why he wasn’t there and then looked around and wondered why he was the only man in the room. It’s okay Clint, Clay wanted to be there.
There she is. Hi Ree!
Sing it Ree! I love the hip and knee action.
We had a long wait to get our cookbooks signed. So we sat and talked.
And met new friends. Hi Karen Flanagan!
We went out to the car for a snack and coffee break while the first few hundred people went through the line and when we were headed back in I noticed my granola bar wrapper had wedged itself in my shoe. I don’t know how these sort of things happen to me. How on earth did the wrapper get in my shoe? I’m just relieved it wasn’t toilette paper….this time.
I asked Marlboro Man who was running the ranch while he was gone and I offered to go check on how things were going, but he said he didn’t raise pigs. Good point. It was really good to see him and the boys. Mrs Mama gave him those UFC gloves he’s holding and then the boys took them and started throwing some wild punches at each other.
When I finally got to see Ree I threw her over my shoulder and burped her.
She felt so much better that she signed my book and called me Pam. Just kidding. I had this book signed for my friend. I want Pam to know this was the last cookbook left at Borders in my town and I called just in time to have them set it aside for me. My timing is impeccable.
As we were leaving Mary came running back in the auditorium because their car wouldn’t start. So I jump started their car, actually Clint jump started their car, but this photo makes it look like I helped and then I took Mrs Mama on a major detour of KC before finally getting home.
It was a very fun night with old friends and new friends and Ree’s cookbook is delicious.
Guess what I got in the mail yesterday?
Yep, Ree sent me some cookbooks and I want to share one with you. To enter this give away just leave a comment saying what you’re thankful for this year and I’ll choose the winner tomorrow night when I’m elbow deep in Thanksgiving preparations.
Thanks Ree for bringing us all together in real life and being so kind to send me some of your lovely cookbooks.
***This give away ends November 25th at 10pm CST.***
Give Away Closed, thanks for commenting!
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I am thankful that another Hurricane didn’t come to New Orleans this year. We are still cleaning up from Katrina, Rita, and Gustav and don’t need any more storms coming this way for a few more years.
I’m thankful for my healthy family!!
Grateful for my family, health, and a new job.
I am thankful for my fiance! After 27 years of searching, I finally found the man I want to spend the rest of my life with and on January 16, 2010 we will begin our life together as one!!
And I could definitely use a cookboook to help keep us fed, especially Ree’s!
Hope you and your family have a very thankful and happy Thanksgiving!
I am thankful for my loving husband and my son.
I’m thankful that both my husband & I have good, secure jobs right now!
I am thankful for my family, friends, my animals (cats, dogs, chickens, rabbit and horse) and of course my favorite bloggers(you and ree make me laugh and remind me not to take life so serious)!
I’m thankful for wonderful bloggers who share their lives with us and make us feel like we’re not the only quirky oddballs around!
Thankful that Christ loved us all enough to die for us..
Thankful for my health and family and job. All the thing I usually complain about seem the most important on Turkey Day.
I’m thankful for my family and friends. Also, I’m thankful for this chance to win!
Oh wow! We have so much to be thankful for don’t we? A free country, my healthy children and grandchildren..Thankful to the service men and women who sacrifice for our freedom. Thankful I get to go shopping on Black Friday, and thankful for a contest to get a chance to get PW’s cookbook….
I’m thankful that you’re giving away Ree’s cookbook! And… for my sanity (not everyone in our family has that this year – really). I hope I get my cookbook before she makes it here to Atlanta. Yippee!
I’m thankful for my family. That’s all I can say before I start to cry. So, we’ll leave it at that. Happy Thanksgiving!
I’m thankful for so many things, my list could go on forever, but I’ll say the good health of my family, especially my sweet mother.
I am thankful for people sharing their lives on blogs! Keeps me from thinking too much about my own problems and helps me laugh away my worries!
I am thankful that my 3 children will be here for Thanksgiving, especially my son Matt, who will deploy to Afghanistan next summer. Since he will be enjoying turkey half a world away next year, that makes this Thanksgiving all the more joyous! I will enjoy every minute of his 4 day pass.
My family is healthy and quite often happy, and that is a true blessing. I’m also very thankful for your blog, which brightens my days!
This is trite…but so true.
I am thankful for the ability to give my children a stable and loving home.
I am thankful for my family.
I’m thankful for bloggy people like you and Ree and the CDW. You’re all smart, funny, and real. And, you make my day!!
I am thankful for the people I love and who love me, and that I will get to see most of them this weekend.
I thankful for my family & that we are all local to spend time together.
I am thankful for my family, our collective good health and our life together.
I’m thankful that my husband gets up and goes to work everyday so I don’t have to. Cause if I had to bring home the paycheck we’d be living in a tent…
I am thankful for my husband and five kids. They are so much fun!
I am thankful that I listened to my inner voice and moved to beautiful NE Alabama to help care for my mother. I am also thankful that she lives with my sister, the nurse, as more care is needed. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
I am most thankful for my family this Thanksgiving and that we just added a new addition not too long ago. My daughter got married to a wonderful man.
As a farmer, I’m more than thankful that the weather has been mild to date, so we do NOT have to feed our very limited hay to the cattle yet, as we do not have enough hay to feed all the 50 cows thru the entire winter until May 1st. Mother Nature made it rain all June & July. But it could of been worse.
( As a disaster animal responder, I’m thankful there were no hurricanes this year. Haven’t recovered from Katrina~!!)
I’m thankful for laughter…! I almost wet my pants laughing so hard at the thought of you burping PW! Oh my gosh..you are SO funny. There’s a reason for those beautiful laugh lines!
I’m thankful for my family, friends and church. And I am also thankful for bloggers who do giveaways for Ree’s cookbook.:0)
I totally need this cookbook. I just made Ree’s make ahead mashed potato recipe. I had to follow the recipe off of a stained crumpled piece of computer paper that I printed it on. It was very unfestive and not at all Thanksgivingy. If I had the cookbook I could cook Christmas dinner in style.
I’m so wonderfully thankful to have pulled through the last year, family intact.
thanks for putting my picture on your blog- I feel like a celebrity!!
I am so thankful for my husband, daughter and our health. And I am also thankful for computers and bloggers like April and Ree. They bring a joy and smiles to my life.
I am most thankful for my family. It just doesn’t get any better than that.
I give thanks every day for my family and friends.
I am thnakful there aren’t 15k comments YET to win this cookbook like on Ree’s blog… oh okay I am thnakjful I had gastric Bypass surgery earlier this year and kinda weepy that I won’t be able to consume my 10,000 typical Thanksgiving holidays this year. Oh wait that’s not true! I hope not to get ill from food overload and promise to be good!
I’m thankful for my family, and especially that my baby is home from college for a couple days. Man, I miss that kid!
I am thankful that we are spending thanksgiving with a family from church we have become close to over the last year. When you live so far away from family it is always a blessing to have such great friends.
I am thankful first and foremost for my salvation through Jesus Christ!
I am thankful for my husband. The man is a saint.
I am thankful for a roof over our heads…we got a new roof this summer. I am thankful my son is marrying into a wonderful family, even if he is spending Thanksgiving with them.
I am thankful for a chance to win this book! (and my family)
I am thankful for a husband who always eats what I cook, and says “honey, that was delicious”. (And trust me, a lot of the time he’s lying, but he says it everytime!)
You look like you had an amazing time! It isn’t Thanksgiving in Canada (ours was in October), but I am thankful and grateful every day that not only do I have people who love me, I have people to love.
I am thankful that God is always faithful and has brought me through some difficult days this year. Thankful for my Sweetie whom I have been married to for 38 years and my 2 kids and 3 grandsons and my parents who are still with me.
I’m thankful for so much: my family, my husband, my health, the fact that I don’t have to worry about where my next meal is coming from, that I live in a beautiful and free country. I could go on all night.
I’m most thankful that God didn’t hold it against me for all the things I’ve done in my life and blessed me with a healthy, loving family to share my thanksgivings with. Plus I’m thankful for those moments of “April Showers” that help to wash away the troubles of my day. May you have a great Thanksgiving Day.
JW.Combs
I am thankful that I get to spend the next 5 days with my wonderful husband and daughter, and that I don’t have to get up at 3am on Friday to go shopping. Yup, I’m already done. Yipee!