Let the giving of thanks and the feasting begin! Happy Thanksgiving week, everyone! LPM is closed for the week, so I’m not sure how much activity there will be on the blog. I definitely want to take advantage of our five days off. What a blessing! You know what is so awesome? My hubby has these five days off, too! So for the first time in our marriage, we have a whole week off of work to just spend at home. We are normally in Wyoming or Missouri for Thanksgiving, but this year we just get to have a staycation.
I feel certain that these three things will happen this week:
1) Our Christmas lights, Clark Griswold style, will go up. Curtis normally does this over a span of several days. Our little oak tree was completed last night. I’m looking forward to seeing his “vision” for our new house come into fruition.
2) I will make butterscotch haystacks with the intention of taking them to our neighbors. Hopefully I won’t get lazy and keep them all! That would not be good for Pregnant Girl’s figure.
3) We will get some work done on Jackson’s big boy room and the baby’s nursery. And by work I mean we will order some furniture, which we should have done long ago.
As for the rest of the Moore clan, my parents have been at their ranch since Friday. I spoke to my dad this morning and he said they weren’t ready to come home and, in fact, they just wanted to live there forever. (My mother later debunked this statement. They’re coming home tomorrow.) I simply cannot imagine my mom living in a place where there are no people to witness her good hair days and well accessorized outfits. She needs witnesses! And I’m not talking about deer, steer, and wild hogs.
Melissa and Colin are saving their travel days for Christmas, so they are not coming home for Thanksgiving. We’ll miss them so much, but they will be spending Thursday with some dear friends and will have a blast.
Also – this is so exciting – Curtis and I are expecting to get a phone call any day that his sister is in labor with her firstborn. We can’t wait to meet our sweet little nephew.
Have a great Monday, friends!
Have a Happy Thanksgiving and a fun staycation. I laugh when I think of Curtis putting up the lights like Clark Griswold. We are in the process of doing that ourselves.
Much love,
Patty
happy thanksgiving!! Also Tammy from Grateful in GA got a pic done of the siestas in New Orleans that your mom asked for. She had to photo shop us in thus cutting out some of my do. Anyway, we were lost on the streets of New Orleans when the original took place!
Hope you all have a wonderful week!!! I am so thankful for all of you and this ministry!! Love to everyone!! ps I am almost through with Esther what in the world will I do next? LOL!
Am I 1st??? Sureley not!
Happy Thanksgiving week to all of you across the globe and nation! I pray that it is filled with rest, refreshment and a thankful attitude.
May God fill your hearts with Thanksgiving for all the wonderful things He has done and the gifts that He has given!
Amanda, you must post pictures of your christmas lights too!
Love you all in Christ,
Esther
This comment isn’t intended for posting. I just wanted to take a quick minute and thank you for sharing your lives with us. I’m sure it’s meant certain sacrifices, but the effect it’s had on this “community” has been wonderful. We’re praying for all of you!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone at Living Proof and the Siestas in blogville.
Let us praise our God & King, Who is and was and is to come.
Happy Thanksgiving, Moore Family 🙂
I have much to be thankful for this year too. Although it has been a year of great losses, it has been a learning year for me and a year of growing closer to the Lord. For that I am so unbelievably grateful.
God bless all of you this Thanksgiving week.
I hope y’all all (how grammatically correct is that?!) have a wonderful, calm, restful, fun week!
I am headed to Mexico for a Missions/Ministry trip and would definitely appreciate the prayers of some of the siesta’s! Especially that we don’t get sick, and so many of us already are!
Happy Thanksgiving Week!
Lots of love and hugs!
Lindsee
Happy Thanksgiving to all in Siestaville! I just love this time of year! I’m very excited about decorating for Christmas as well. My four year old and three year old boys are more excited this year than ever and this is the first Christmas for our baby girl. These past few days as I think about Thanksgiving and what being grateful truly means, I have been overwhelmed with how truly blessed I am. I have been reminded how you can’t be unhappy and grateful at the same time! When you think of all we have to be thankful for you just become happy!I want to always be grateful and happy! I’m so looking forward to cooking Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas decorating and the annual Christmas Parade…but also for my date with my husband this weekend…my 10 year High school reunion! May we always give thanks in all things for we know they work for the good!
Laura Beth
Happy Thanksgiving to LPM! After today… I am off the rest of the week as well! I cannot wait! Our official feasting began on Saturday! My proclamation was “let the official pig-a-thon begin!” Did I mention I LOVE Thanksgiving!
… enjoy your time together this week… (we want pictures of your a’la Griswald decor!)
Glad Mama Siesta will be coming home. Steer, deer and wild hogs do not appreciate great hair and great clothes! 🙂
Have a wonderful week Amanda!! So much to be grateful for. I thank God for your mom, her studies, LPM, and her amazing family as y’all have each had a role in my freedom and love for Christ!
Have a fabulous week. Hope your days are full of love and laughter!
Hugs,
Fran
Giving thanks for all of you at LPM, for all you do for God and how it blesses the socks off of all of us.
Big hugs all around,
Melinda
Happy Thanksgiving to LMP! God Bless you all. Thank you for all you do.
Mary from Alabama
May He bless your family richly this Thanksgiving! You are a blessing to all of us siestas, and we’re so grateful to have you in our lives (even if it’s just through the blog-o-sphere). 🙂
Enjoy your week, Amanda! And how exciting to be welcoming a new little nephew into your family. Pretty neat way to kick off the holiday season! Can’t get much merrier than that!
Happy Thanksgiving week to you too, Amanda! I am so glad that you all have the entire week off- A very much-deserved break:) May your week be productive, relaxing, and filled with family and food:)
Happy Thanksgiving!
Love,
Tara
PS. I love those butterscotch haystacks too! They are a family tradition here, but I often eat half of them before getting them out of my house as gifts! Oh, but they are good:)
“How can I, Emmy, thank God enough for you, Beth, Amanda, Melissa, LPM staff, Siestas, in return for all the JOY I have in the presence of our God because of you?” 1Thessalonians 3:9
Praying a prayer of Thanksgiving for all of my Siestas… I am thankful God has put you all in my life! (even if it is through the internet!)
Emmy : )
Enjoy your week off and a very happy Thanksgiving to all of you!
Amanda,
You and all your family are such a blessing to all of us and we can say I’m sure that one of our greatest things to be thankful for is the Moore family and Living Proof Ministries! I love it when Beth gets some down time at the cabin with her man!
You all have a blessed Thanksgiving as well as all of the siestas around this big world. What an awesome thing we all have in common, A love for and hope in Jesus Christ!
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! I hope you all get some much needed down time. I love thanksgiving. What a joy it is to spend time with family and just be able to relax. I pray that everyone relishes the peace of the holiday and spends time in reflection for the many blessings bestowed upon us by our Wonderful Creator! Thank you Lord for your mercy and your grace.
In His Grip of Grace,
Beth Herring
Amanda,
Thank you for lending us Curtis this weekend at Camp Tejas.
Wow! What a Word from God!
Robin
Sounds like a great week. Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
PS After Beth’s video I’m inspired to have some Citizens of Humanity jeans so this week I’ll be doing some e-shopping at the very least.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING LPM CREW, MAMA BETH AND FAMILY!! You all deserve this week off. We are all so grateful for all you do for us sista’s…..Thank YOU!!!!!!!
I pray you and yours have a Blessed Thanksgiving. I would say don’t eat to much, but on Thanksgiving Day that is not possible!!
Blessings to all of you….
Bible Bunny in No MI
P.S. We likewise will “decorate the halls” on the weekend!!
Deer were never meant to appreciate our great hair days.. nor jackrabbits, nor elk, nor even fish. May she return home quickly to the land of malls and starbucks.
Glad to hear you guys have a week of vacation! My husband and I just set a date for when we get to plan on having our own little one, so I’m super thrilled to hear about others’ new babies! Have a great week! Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
Wow! I can’t believe I am the first to post a comment! Heeheehee…
Happy Thanksgiving week to all of my dear sisters out there, to the LPM staff and to all of my family.
Love,
Lisa
Happy Thanksgiving everyone on this blog! I am very thankful for all the laughter, tears, inspiration, conviction and sweetness I’ve found here. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
Wendy
Hi Amanda!
Thanks for filling us in on what your family’s doing this week. How fun to have a week off with Curtis! My kids have the week off too, and my husband plans to take Wed. and Fri. off. Looking forward to some relaxing family time.
We’re thanking God that our house was spared in the recent fires in our Yorba Linda hills. This is one time we’re grateful we don’t have a large home with a view. But many homes were lost and those families could use our siestas prayers!
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Love, Karen in OC, CA
Happy Thanksgiving Moore Family! Blessings to you all…
Happy Thanksgiving to each of you!
I am so thankful for this ministry…the blog, LPM, and how God works through and uses Beth, Amanda and Mellissa.
Love to you from my home & family.
Yolanda
Amanda,
Happy Thanksgiving to all of the family. Enjoy the time off together.
Blessings,
Sherri
Have a blessed Thanksgiving and don’t work too hard!
Forever His,
Lawan Rivera
Phil 4:8
Happy Thanksgiving to all my siestas at LPM and around the USA! I will be praying for you all to have a glorious holiday filled with the Holy Spirit and wonderful time with family and friends. You are all a blessing to me.
What a great joy to be able to share with some many women. Since last Friday, Psalm 103:1-5 has been on my heart.
Namaste,
Mary Ann, a MN Siesta
Thank you Amanda for your words of thanksgiving, praise, and encouragement. May the LORD truly bless your family’s time together. I am so very thankful for all of you at Living Proof and how you have blessed thousands of women with your words from the WORD! HAPPY THANKSGIVING wishes and praise the LORD for thankful heart and His bountiful provision.
Happy Thanksgiving Moores, Joneses and Fitzpatricks as well as all the LPM crew! Thanking God for the blessing you are in my life each and every day!
Love to all.
At my church, it is a tradition that everyone has the chance to give a testimony about something they are thankful for– we do this before the sermon begins. I just wanted so say that I heard some pretty amazing testimonies. It also got me to thinking about things I’m thankful for. I feel like I’ve grown so much since this time last year, but I still have A LOT of growing left to do. I’m thankful for such a patient, loving Father. I’m also thankful for all of the amazing people He has put in my life, whether I know them personally or not.
I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving!
Lots of love 🙂
Becca
In lieu of Collin’s absence,who will be assisting Beth in fashioning a turkey out of a tortilla for the King Ranch Chicken? 🙂 Have a great Thanksgiving Siestas!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all of the siestas and to the Moore,Jones,Fitzpatrick, families. I am so THANKFUL for this blog! Kelly from Michigan
I am laughing right now because I too do not what my creativity on an outfit to me lost on mere woodland animals I have to have the affirmation from those around me that it is a cute and well accessorized outfit…lol….Happy Thanksgiving to all of you in Siestaville!!!
Much love from GA
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i pray you all have a wonderful, restful, pleasant, Thankgiving staycation or vacation, whatever the case may be.
we have so much to be thankful for and i count LPM as one of the most amazing blessings of all! what would we do without you? sure, we’d study God’s Word and love Him. but, with the testimony and inheritance you present to the hungry siestas life just wouldn’t be the same if Christ hadn’t worked the miracles over the ministry the way He has.
it’s an honor to grow with you and all the siestas in Jesus. Praise His holy name!
Happy Thanksgiving Beth, Amanda, Melissa and all of you Siestas!
Have a wonderful day! ;o)
Kimberly
Have a blessed Thanksgiving!!!
I love butterscotch haystacks! Same here – I have to make them for others to help me control myself from eating them all. Mmmm…
I love your mom – her hair and well accessorized outfits! The deer, steer and wild hogs are not able to appreciate her like we do!
Enjoy your staycation! I told my hubby that we have a new word for our at-home vacations!
Blessings a’plenty to your families and ministries!
Happy Thanksgiving to the Moores, the Jones, and the Fitzpatricks! I’m glad that ya’ll are going to have this opportunity to just STAY! I plan on getting alot done this week as well.
The Journey Continues~
Happy Thanksgiving Blessings to all of you and the Siesta's!!!!
As I was traveling from the California central coast to the central valley this morning, something spectacular happened. It was overcast and cloudy ( rain forecast) and my husband put on Christmas music … Well, Each time a song would mention CHRIST ~ the sun would shine through the clouds directly into my face. It was glorious!!! I am not exagerating this ~ it happened every single time! I also got to see deer and hawks!!!! OUR PRECIOUS GOD WAS TRULY SHOWING OFF FOR ME TODAY!!! It was the best Thanksgiving & Early Christmas blessing I could ever imagine!
How fun to hear about your celebration of "Clark Griswold style" Christmas lights, the haystacks~ yummy!! I would rather share hugs than my food when I was pregnant with little ones!! 🙂
My family will be celebrating at Grammy's home ( my mother) and my two sons will join us from university along with my brother, sis in law and adorable~~~ YES adorable 6 year old nephew!!
He invited "AUNTIE" to attend his Thanksgiving program on Wednesday morning in a little town called Springville. I am sure it will be glowing with sunshine from our CHRIST!
THANKS for the GIVING of LPM!
With "Heaven Bound" Blessings & sunshine,
Kim Safina
http://www.kimsafinathejourneycontinues.blogspot.com
I’m embarrassed to ask…is there a difference between Spanish peanuts and just regular peanuts???
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
The deer in backyard last night were defintely not looking at my hair…good or bad. We need civilization.
Amanda, I will be in Springfiled Friday at Battlefield Mall was going to look for you. But a staycation sounds so wonderful! I would love a week as I am remodeling a bathroo….still!
Now myu biggest Thanksgiving fear…I am baking the turkey and I do not do not do not cook and I have this fear the fire dpt will be called…I have no clue as to what I am doing. Honestly, no clue.
Betn, being the gourmet cook that I know you have hidden deep inisde, any tips?
Happy Thanksgiving to all at LPM and all Siesta’s!
Have a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving!
I didn’t comment earlier, but will now. I just wanted to share something that happened this morning. I was talking to a young friend of mine in the grocery store, he’s a distributer. We were talking about his little girl and how sweet she is. He mentioned that he doesnt get to see her enough so I told him something that had recently been revealed to me (I’m slow). Our pastor was teaching on the Lord’s prayer and said that “Our Father” translated was “Abba” Daddy for us, and that we are supposed to think of Him in that way.
Jesus gave that illustration so that when we prayed we would have those same tender feelings towards God that we do our fathers. So I told him to be sure and be that sweet father to her so she could have that frame of reference. I believe from the minute Christ uttered those sweet words the enemy has been on the war path so that our thoughts of our dads would mar the thoughts of Abba. Am I making sense? I didn’t have warm thoughts about my dad for years…
Well a lady who also works there was listening and she came up to me and hugged me with tears saying thank you for sharing that, so it made me want to share it with you all too.
Love you all, Happy Turkey Week.
Judy
Happy Thanksgiving to you sweet Amanda, and to the Moore family, and to everyone at LPM. Have a wonderful staycation…and don’t forget to kick back, put your feet up and enjoy some quiet moments this week.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all at LPM and to all you Siestas!!
Hope you all have a wonderful week!
Happy Thanksgiving to all you wonderful people in Siesta and Miestaville. May the peace and love of our Father bless us all over these next few days and safe travels for everyone who has to go somewhere else to celebrate.
A staycation now that is wonderful..More time for the lights to go up and the babies room to get what it needs. Which by the way if you have this baby on the 11th we will share the same day. Yippee!!!
Anyway, much love to you and your sister and Mamma Beth and her supperman…
Lichelle
Have a fun week, Moore Women and Siestas Everywhere. I’m working on this week’s menus and making sure we have everyone’s fave games to keep us duly entertained and occupied. Giving Thanks to the Lord of Every Good Harvest for His brilliant blessings – incl each of you!
Warm in Alaska.