Engleberts in Missouri [miz-er-ree]

It’s going to be a long day at our house. Today is baking day. Lots of pies, deserts, jello molds and other prep work to be done for the big feast tomorrow. It is also the first day of what will probably go down in history as the longest Thanksgiving break ever. The kids are out of school for the next five days.  There isn’t a lot to do during Thanksgiving break if you’re not visiting relatives and they’re not visiting you. Several of the kids’ friends will be away over the holiday or have jobs and aren’t available to provide entertainment. So the kids, especially Violet, are going to be bored. Not the “stiff and wodden” kind of bored either. It will be the kind where there is incessant whining that goes like this, “I’m boooorrrrred. There’s nothing to doooo.” In fact, April started practicing her whine yesterday. 

There will be some helping with the baking and other prep work but, you know, Violet’s only 8. There isn’t a lot for her to do that doesn’t involve knives or really hot ovens/stoves. And there is so much waiting involved with baking. You can only watch a pie bake for so long before it gets old.  

 

She doesn’t even have anything to look forward to tonight. She has been going to Awana meetings on Wednesday nights for several months now. She really likes it – mostly, I think, because she gets to get out of the house and because 5 of her friends from the neighborhood/school also go to Awanas. But Awanas is cancelled tonight.

If you’re like my children (bored and deprived of all forms of entertainment like books, games, television, electronic devices and a sad lack of chores), you could join the kids in solving cryptograms on the Family Message Board (Fun, Fun, Fun post).  

 

Or you could play hide-and-seek with me. I’ve hidden 10 (ten not two) turkeys on various pages on my site. They look like this:

Only each turkey’s sign has a letter on it. Round up all 10 turkeys and figure out the secret message by unscrambling the letters you find. Post your solution in the comments of this post. To keep everyone honest, the first person to post the solution should tell where they found the first letter of the phrase, the second person tells where they found the second letter of the phrase, and so on. Go on – Get started – I’m hiding my eyes and counting…one-one thousand….two-one thousand…