Well, I soon "fell off my wagon" and gained that 4 lbs back but I am happy to report that I lost it again plus 2 more! That is a total of 6 lbs so far...only 44 lbs more...
My Mother sent me some pictures. I was probably 14 and I remember that I used to think I was so fat... I really needed my head examined because I can't believe how skinny I was back then!! It would be so nice if I could be like that again (size 7) but I know that due to maturity & age, it is physically impossible (even with surgery! lol).
(l to r)My sisters, Angie, Regina; brothers, Richard, Billy; my Father, James standing behind us and me on the far right...
(l to r) daughters, Melody, Layla; my Father, Jim; in the back, my son, Eric my Mother, Pat and I am on the far right... again...lol seems to be my spot! LOL
As you probably know ( and I have the pictures to prove it!), with age comes thicker bodies! LOL
I just love all the wonderful movies this time of year! Here are some of my favorites:
There are so many more but these are my all-time favorites... coming soon is the 24 hour marathon of A Christmas Story... Woo Hoo!!!
What are some of your favorite movies this time of the year??
I borrowed this from "famouspictures" on the YouTube channel...
About this day of Thanksgiving...
In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that Thanksgiving would be the next-to-last Thursday of November rather than the last. With the country still in the midst of The Great Depression, Roosevelt thought this would give merchants a longer period to sell goods before Christmas. Increasing profits and spending during this period, Roosevelt hoped, would aid bringing the country out of the Depression. At the time, it was considered inappropriate to advertise goods for Christmas until after Thanksgiving. However, Roosevelt's declaration was not mandatory; twenty-three states went along with this recommendation, and 22 did not. Other states, like Texas, could not decide and took both weeks as government holidays. Roosevelt persisted in 1940 to celebrate his "Franksgiving," as it was termed. The U.S. Congress in 1941 split the difference and established that the Thanksgiving would occur annually on the fourth Thursday of November, which was sometimes the last Thursday and sometimes the next to last. On November 26 that year President Roosevelt signed this bill into U.S. law.
Since 1947, or possibly earlier, the National Turkey Federation has presented the President of the United States with one live turkey and two dressed turkeys. The live turkey is pardoned and lives out the rest of its days on a peaceful farm. While it is commonly held that this tradition began with Harry Truman in 1947, the Truman Library has been unable to find any evidence for this. Still others claim that that the tradition dates back to Abraham Lincoln pardoning his son's pet turkey.[2] Both stories have been quoted in more recent presidential speeches.
In more recent years, two turkeys have been pardoned, in case the original turkey becomes unavailable for presidential pardoning. Since 2003 the public has been invited to vote for the two turkeys' names. In 2006, they were named Flyer and Fryer. In 2005, they were named Marshmallow and Yam (who went on to live at Disneyland); 2004's turkeys were named Biscuit and Gravy; in 2003, Stars and Stripes.
Since 1970, a group of Native Americans and others have held a controversial National Day of Mourning protest on Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
