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I have loved just reading this thread. Your choices of favorite lines bring back so many jaw-droppingly wonderful songs.

Happy Birthday Llynn, and Happy Birthday gtr plyr! Cake all around!!! You deserve all the sweet things that come your way, especially if cake and ice cream are involved. Enjoy, birthday babies!!

I want HIS Christmas recipes..... And yep, I pretty much agree. My favorite part of Thanksgiving (besides family) is leftovers. Somehow everything just tastes so much more delicious a day or two later!

Happy Birthday, AWATT. As soon as I find enough candles, your cake is ready.....if I can just keep everybody else from poking their fingers in the frosting! YOU! Put that back!!! Have a great day & a great year! Hurry up and enjoy your cake before there's nothing left of it!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENNA! Meeting you and Brad was a wonderful event, and I hope we'll get another chance to see each other soon. In honor of your birthday, I went into the local bakery, and just yelled out, "Sooooooooo-eeeeeeeee!!!" Happily, instead of finding myself escorted out by security personnel, the baker nodded sagely, and brought out....... this! Hope you enjoy it! I think it's piggerrific. (Is so a word.)

Maudie, I'm so sorry to have missed your day, but any excuse to celebrate you is good enough! Love and my very fondest wishes to one of VC's finest! Here's cake, a bit late but presented with love! Okay if I call you Betty?

Well, I'm late, but what else is new? Still, cake is definitely in order, as well as wishes for a wonderful, magical new year of life. Hope you both like virtual cheescake. I'm sorry, but the real one is staying at my house for Thanksgiving.

Me neither, Loretta.

Poppydawn, I'm no fan of sweet potatoes, but this sounds delicious. I'm going to try it. Thank you! I love being inspired by other cooks on this board.

Thank you for organizing this fun, Jen!

I am so hungry right now it's ridiculous.

Oyster Stuffing! Turkey and Dumplings! Sweet Potato/Bourbon Pie! Coconut Cream Pie! Turkey Chowder! Fried Turkey! Dad's Apple Pie! Turducken! DAMN!!! You people know how to whet an appetite. . Any and all recipes will be appreciated. Hell, it may even be time for the Via Chicago Cookbook, Vol. 2.

I was thinking the same....this soft sweet face totally draws me in & makes me wish I could read her thoughts. What a beauty!

I love it!

As I do all my pre-cooking and shopping, I've been thinking about the foods that define this day for my family.....the special dishes without which it just wouldn't feel like Thanksgiving. Tom would be very unhappy without our family's very special, tweaked to perfection version of green bean casserole. Brennan has to have the giant vat of homemade mashed potatoes, again specially doctored with special ingredients. For Alissa, it's all about the pies, and olives stuck on each finger. For me, it's very basic.....I can't imagine having a ham on Thanksgiving, or prime rib, or whatever, even tho

twobobs is teh amazing with the secret Santa gifts. Yowza!

Aw, Kate, what a great photo!

I wouldn't even know where to begin. As hard as life gets sometimes, the good still outweighs the bad, so much. I'm loving reading your lists! I hope all of those of you that I love are well aware of it....you are precious to me, even if I forget (or am too busy) to say it often enough. So many of you are so dear to me, and I mean that totally, without any oversentimentality. You make my days more beautiful. If you think I might mean you...yes, I do. What a great community this is. Thanks for starting this thread, Maudie. It's such a good thing to stop & treasure our blessings.

My jokes used to be much funnier. Sorry!

#638 = Thefrog?

I'm supposed to put my left foot where??!!!

59! What do I win?

Dearest Brianne, wishing you oceans of happiness today and always! xoxoxo

Christy, Brennan did the same thing to one of his phones. He was able to revive it, but had to methodically disassemble it and dry & clean the whole interior. (He's good at stuff like this, and exceedingly patient & careful) He told me to warn you against using the phone if it hasn't been cleaned of water & detergent, as the interior components could short each other out from being dirty. (He gave me this info on the fly so this was my basic understanding of what he was saying.) Sweet kid that he is, he told me to tell you that if you wanted to mail it to him, he would be happy t

Happy Birthday, cake for everybody! Have a marvelous day!!!