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Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas: Thanksgiving Traditions and Feast Favorites
Thanksgiving is more than just a holiday; it's a celebration of gratitude and community. In our latest episode of "Coffee Talks with the Cajun Mamas," we reflect on the love and friendships that have blossomed over the past three months, starting from our days at Evolve Athletics. Join us as we share heartwarming Thanksgiving stories, from family road trips to Texas to the joy of gathering around a table filled with turkey, traditional dressings, and sweet potatoes. We hope our reverent exchange inspires you to cherish your own family traditions and embrace the spirit of togetherness this Thanksgiving.
You'll be transported into a world of flavors as we indulge in the culinary delights that define our Thanksgiving feast. Ever wondered what makes the perfect Thanksgiving bite? We reveal our personal favorites, featuring turkey thigh meat, rice dressing, and the iconic canned cranberry sauce that never fails to spark debates. With a playful exploration of dishes like green bean casserole and our family's unique sweet potatoes with raisins, we invite you to reminisce about your own family recipes and create new memories around the dinner table.
As the holiday season kicks off, we don't forget the excitement and chaos of Black Friday shopping. We've got tales of triumph and mishaps from the days of lining up for must-have gadgets to navigating the convenience of online shopping. Whether you're a seasoned Black Friday veteran or just looking for tips to snag the best deals without stress, our experiences will resonate with you. As we wrap up, we share our heartfelt gratitude for your unwavering support and extend our warm wishes to those who may feel alone during the holidays. May this Thanksgiving fill your heart with love and your home with cherished memories.
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All right, so welcome to Coffee Talks with the Cajun Mamas. Welcome y'all. I'm Sarah O'Pry and this is my partner, kola Melanson.
Speaker 2:Not Melancon, not Melanson, melanson, melanson.
Speaker 1:Melanson, and we're here to talk about Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving everybody. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Yes, Can you imagine it's almost Christmas time? Basically, Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Yes, Can you imagine it's almost Christmas time?
Speaker 1:basically, it is Basically.
Speaker 2:I can't even believe we're here. Like we blinked, it was Mardi Gras last month. I feel like we blinked and here we are at Thanksgiving. Mm-hmm. You know what I'm thankful for? What Evolve Athletics? Me too, Y'allall. This is the gym where Sarah and I met, like it started out as a boot camp and we have since evolved through a CrossFit affiliation and now we are evolve athletics and I say we, it's not our business, but it's our family.
Speaker 2:It's really become like family to us, so evolve athletics is located at 230 North Main Street in Church Point. They offer more than just a gym y'all. They give you accountability, a sense of community, and they try to make the workouts as fun and have the atmosphere as fun as possible. If you are not local to us, though, don't close your ears off, because you can still take advantage of Evolve Athletics and what they have to offer, because they will program for you at-home workouts to fit your fitness level.
Speaker 2:Whatever level you're at, they can program to that. And then they also offer nutritional counseling. So please take advantage of that service. They are so knowledgeable and really can just help guide you to the best and healthiest lifestyle possible. You can reach them on their Facebook page, evolve Athletics, or you can call Caitlin Thibodeau at 337-250-0280.
Speaker 1:Evolve Athletics. All right, today we talk about Thanksgiving. We have so much to be thankful for, ko, and I really thank you for listening to us, for this is three months now yes, you know, three months we've been having our podcast um and we're so thankful for you who um listen to the podcast, like and share like share, yeah, comment you know anybody who buys merch. I mean, like just it's been um a great evolution of the caajun Mamas and it wouldn't be without your love and support.
Speaker 2:So thank you so much for all that you do to support us yes, and to show us love, and we're going to keep talking as long as y'all want to keep listening, because we can talk. We just feel blessed and grateful that y'all want to listen to what we have to say. I know and I'd like to what we have to say, you know.
Speaker 1:I know, I know, and I'd like to take a second to thank God.
Speaker 2:Oh, please, Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Jesus, for this opportunity to talk to others on this platform.
Speaker 2:Hopefully we, you know, we spark some memories and share some love and definitely share the Lord with you too and leave you feeling a little better and a little more encouraged and a little more uplifted after you listen to us talk. That's always our goal, not just to entertain, but to to share. I mean to share Jesus, jesus's love in in, in what we do and what the Cajun Mamas is about, and absolutely.
Speaker 1:And community. You know, community it's all about friendship, community and just really taking the time to spend time with those you love. So do that this Thanksgiving too, please. Yes, yes.
Speaker 2:Okay, so tell me what like a Thanksgiving memory. Do you have something specific that, like y'all always did, or always still do for Thanksgiving, a tradition of some sort?
Speaker 1:Okay, so every year for Thanksgiving when I was younger, we would go to Texas and we would visit my mama's Texas family, okay, and it was a little old couple with my Uncle Bob and my Aunt Nomi and we'd go there and you know we go to Coraline Landy's now.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, coraline Landy was my Uncle Bob and my Aunt Nomi's Coraline Landy. Okay, he is their grandson.
Speaker 2:Oh, so I mean you know, like Uncle. Bob, they were old, they were old they just passed away.
Speaker 1:not long ago, they just passed away not long ago.
Speaker 2:They lived very long and we visited them.
Speaker 1:Yes, I was probably well into my 30s, okay, when Uncle Bob passed away, which was, I want to say, it was around 2020.
Speaker 2:Okay, like COVID time Okay.
Speaker 1:You know, he was 90, almost 100. He was 99 years old. So he like going there, we would go there.
Speaker 2:And you look forward to the trip, like the whole trip. Y'all would spend a night, a few nights.
Speaker 1:We would spend nights over there, yeah, so, like, and they had all these old clocks on the wall, you know like, and the clocks would go off all the time, because he actually had an antique booth at their like a flea market. Okay, okay, so we would go to the flea market and we would have a meal with and some of their family members would come over and we would meet all of our extended family and then, and we'd have, you know, thanksgiving with them and we just made all the things and those.
Speaker 2:That was one of my favorite, uh, thanksgiving memories yeah, going, that's, that's tradition for thanksgiving we would always do it, uh, at my mama's house, which was right next door, or sometimes well, I can't say always I can remember doing things there, but my mama's house was a little bigger, so we would, everyone would come to our house. You know, my mama's and um Trina, the traditional turkey, and the dressings, and um sweet potatoes or yams, if you want to call it that, uh, and I don't know. I'm trying to think like what type of vegetable?
Speaker 2:I'm sure green bean casserole all those things, but my favorite was waking up and knowing and putting the Thanksgiving parade on the Macy's Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1:Day Parade. I love that, yes.
Speaker 2:We would have it on while my daddy was in the kitchen. My mama was in the kitchen cooking and stuff and I'd be, you know, sitting there drinking my coffee, milk, eating breakfast and all the smells going on in the kitchen and watching the parade. And oh, and then, if you, if, like, like when Hanson was on the parade, the music you don't remember that they would have a band. So if your favorite band was playing the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, or, like Britney Spears, was on there I'm showing my age right now.
Speaker 2:That's been a long time it's been a while. But that was just.
Speaker 1:You get so excited about it, and I don't even have to be watching the parade you know, I just want it on, just want it on. It's the comfort of knowing it's on, yeah, and that somewhere in New York City. Yeah, you know they hanging out their windows watching the Macy's Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:Day.
Speaker 1:Parade yes, I love that.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, big balloons, I mean obviously, and it was always like what's the classic ones that's there every year, like Snoopy? Yeah, always a Snoopy. I'm so glad you brought that up.
Speaker 1:Yes, so the Snoopy? I'm sorry. No, tell me, tell me, tell me, my aunt Nomi, the old one, my aunt Nomi, she had a Snoopy collection. Oh my, when I'm telling you anything with Snoopy collection. Oh my, when I'm telling you anything with Snoopy on it. My Uncle, pablo, collected for her and bring it home for her from the flea market.
Speaker 2:Pictures, stuffies, glass figurine, anything, huh Anything, mugs, whatever.
Speaker 1:Snoopy, that was her thing, she had it and, yeah, a Snoopy collection.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:So Snoopy was you know very, we were looking a Snoopy collection. So Snoopy was you know very we were looking for Snoopy in the Thanksgiving Day Parade I got you.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to think what else the classic ones, and y'all might weigh in on this in the comments and let us know like which. The classic balloons that maybe they still have that I don't know, it's been a few years, I don't feel like I haven't watched it and I need to get my kids on that. I've been slipping and slacking as a parent in that department, need my kids to watch the parade. But yeah, I loved the Thanksgiving parade.
Speaker 2:Wake up in the morning and then knowing like the food I'm about to eat and like my family was coming over and I have a relatively small family. Honestly, my mama had two sisters and we would just. This was just like my mama's side. We didn't do too too much with my daddy's side every every now and then, but it wasn't like a yearly thing, so, which is unfortunate. But, um, I'm the youngest of all the cousins. My, all my cousins are a lot older than me, so I didn't really have a lot of play like people to play with or whatever, but I still looked forward to having like my cousins over and like we'd play cards and stuff like that, and it was just family. You know family time, so it's all about the family and it's sad that we usually have to have a holiday to get together. You know like to make that happen, but everybody's lives are just so.
Speaker 1:And I know that. I know there's like some regret with not being able to visit, but isn't it so much sweeter when you do like for a holiday? That's what makes the time so special is you know you get to see, you look forward to it and you get to do all those things that you wouldn't normally do on any of those Saturdays, that's true, yeah, it makes it special, yeah, it's super special.
Speaker 2:And to not have you know, let it not be a funeral that you get together for, you know, for like some time, weddings or funerals is the only time you see some family members, so it's nice to not have a bad occasion to get together.
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Speaker 2:They have mops and brooms, trash bags, to-go plates, foil yeah, foil gumbo bowls, like all kind of cleaning and household supplies.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you know, don't sleep on longsproductscom. You can check them out on TikTok Shop, amazon and all the socials at Long's Products. Alright, so what is your favorite thing to eat at Thanksgiving time?
Speaker 2:I like. Okay, now this is my perfect bite. You want to hear Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Because I can't pick one thing. I can't pick one thing. Oh my gosh, I can't wait to eat tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Okay, so turkey, thigh meat, no breasts.
Speaker 1:Oh, this is very specific. I am a dark meat girl all the way, okay.
Speaker 2:So turkey thigh meat juicier, absolutely juicier. Then you take a little bite of rice dressing with that and gravy on top like you have to have the gravy and a little bit of cranberry sauce and you have your sweet-lish, you have your savory, you have your tart with the cranberry.
Speaker 1:Perfect bite. Okay, now let me ask you this the cranberry sauce, is that just out the can? I'm going to disappoint you, or are you going to?
Speaker 2:make it Straight up out the can with the ridges on it. Yes, I love that. Nobody likes that but me. I'm the only one, and my daddy will always make sure I have a can. I'm the only one that eats it. It's good, it's good. Why go through the? It's fine and I never really. They would make the homemade one too, and I'm like no, I don't want to feel the.
Speaker 2:I don't want to crunch it no, but I will say that in my adult life my mother-in-law makes a delicious cranberry, real cranberry sauce but I'm still gonna get the can, and I have both.
Speaker 1:I really feel like there's something special about having that big log.
Speaker 2:Yes, you know that gelatinous cut and then you got to cut it and, like you, got a big round. Slides all over the place, oh I love it, you know what I love it.
Speaker 1:I love you even more now. I know you would. I love it. And nobody has like our Thanksgiving meal doesn't have that. No, no, Like. If we do it, it's because I wanted it like a couple of times, but like I'm the only one that eats it.
Speaker 2:Okay, I might. I might bring that to Thanksgiving tomorrow, get yourself, do it, treat yourself Absolutely.
Speaker 1:You know what Ocean spray? Yeah, you did that right, that's where it's at. You did that right, that is where it's at, and I'll.
Speaker 2:well, I'm just going to keep going. So we usually make a potato salad with our Thanksgiving feast. So we make a potato salad and that turkey gravy on that potato salad just hits. Let me tell you, Potato salad yes.
Speaker 1:I know I'm not knocking it now. I know you ain't going to knock it. There's always time for potato salad, always yeah. So like what is on your table, what has to be there on the table. And he is on the table for thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:Okay, so the turkey. We have to do a turkey. Sometime, daddy will do a ham too and I'm like whoo smorgasbord you know, so turkey um a rice dressing and they make a cornbread dressing, which I actually don't care for. I know that's crazy, I know, okay, yeah, um and let that one slide. Please. Let that one slide Please let that one slide Rice dressing.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, I think I said that already. My aunt always brings a green bean casserole. I like it, but it's not like I got to have it. Like Thanksgiving is one of those times like I probably, I don't eat much vegetables.
Speaker 1:No, why would you?
Speaker 2:Why would you? Everything else is so rich and heavy. Like I, probably my husband is like, like, can we please have a vegetable? And I'm like, why, like my plate's full already? Uh, yams or sweet potatoes. It's sweet potatoes for us, but uh, always that, and I'm talking with the brown sugar sauce in it and everything like.
Speaker 1:I know you like lumps.
Speaker 2:Yeah, chunky ones the chunk ones, yeahunky and the cranberry sauce and what else. I say gravy, my daddy always does those brown and serve rolls.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the little ones.
Speaker 2:Yeah, brown and serve rolls, what else? Usually my mama will do some type of desserts like pecan pie, pumpkin pie, but I just usually eat a second helping of sweet potatoes at that point and that's my dessert.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just enough. Yeah, now my, I know I'm gonna get to you, but I'm still gonna talk about this. My husband's side will do a turkey roll. Okay, yeah, so like, if you don't know what a turkey roll is, it's just a big deep. They take a turkey and they debone it and they they stuff it with like onions and bell peppers and seasoning, so it's like rolled up and then my favorite has become my husband will grill it on his green egg and it will be like a smoky barbecued turkey roll. So good, um, and so that. And then miss connie makes and I know you don't like this too much, but I like it She'll make her yams and she'll cut them, like dice them, and then she puts raisins in it and the same type of like yummy sauce in there. And I could go. I could go. Nuts on those sweet potatoes. Are there nuts in it too? There are not. Oh, okay, but when did I tell you that the first time? And you were like Absolutely not.
Speaker 1:I think we did a video Like a coffee talk video.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, it was a coffee talk. About some raisins and I'm like you just lost me at that I do.
Speaker 1:Like raisins, I do.
Speaker 2:Well, I never would have. I didn't know about this until I met him. Maybe I might like it didn't never seen this before in my life, but apparently his papa that was what he would do. And so miss connie her that was her daddy, and she, she makes it, and nathan still swears like she don't make it exactly like him, but that's one of our favorite things that she makes these ems, these sweet potatoes yeah so good, well, listen when you go, just maybe take me a little time I can do that for you, and then I will take some bites and see.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have to see what you think, maybe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:Now you tell me what's on your plate, what's on your table.
Speaker 1:Okay. So thing about us is everything that's on our plate for Thanksgiving will be there for Christmas.
Speaker 2:Y'all do the same thing.
Speaker 1:Pretty much the same.
Speaker 2:I think us two kind of in a way, because, especially like when my daddy will do ham, I'm like we're about to have ham again for Thanksgiving. I mean for Christmas, but I'll eat it again and we'll, I do not care, now I'm not getting this meal for another?
Speaker 1:11 months, so you got to understand.
Speaker 2:I'm okay with having it and leftovers for two months. I love okay, I love thanksgiving leftovers, so it's so good.
Speaker 1:It's so good so we have to have the turkey roll. Okay, you know, uh, my daddy once fried a turkey in deep oil in all or the yes, oh, it's so good.
Speaker 2:Have you ever had it? Yeah, we did one time, but I was.
Speaker 1:It was a mess like he got like he put the turkey in it and like the grease flew everywhere and like it stained our carport. It was a whole thing. Thank God it didn't catch on fire. It could have, but I think I still have that turkey pot too at my house.
Speaker 2:Like a big gumbo pot.
Speaker 1:Okay. So fried turkey is really good and I know that in Apalooza there's a place that does fried turkeys. Are they used to Kelly's meat block?
Speaker 2:You know Kelly's meat block. I've heard of Kelly's yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, they, they'll fry a turkey up for you for Thanksgiving, I think, and you could go just pick it up, oh nice, but you know, turkey roll is easiest way to go. Yeah, turkey roll. A dressing um corn, uh, cornbread dressing, uh, my sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, and then the brown and serve rolls.
Speaker 2:absolutely have to have Okay.
Speaker 1:So like my, but my favorite thing on the plate is always gonna be that sweet potato casserole, and if my nanny made it she gave me the um, you know the recipe. It's like the mushed up, it's like a mash, and then she puts the little baby marshmallows on top. Y'all, it's so good.
Speaker 2:Evaporated milk. I was going to ask you what's in it condensed milk or evaporated?
Speaker 1:Evaporated milk, eggs, flour, brown sugar, and you did a video on this. I see it. You're going to have to reshare it. I'm going to have to reshare it or just make another one, because I'm going to make it again anyway.
Speaker 2:But yeah.
Speaker 1:And there's people that probably haven't seen that it's so good and you can like sprinkle pecans on the top or whatever, but I prefer just like that. And Jojo is like Talking to the bitch, is like she can't wait for that casserole.
Speaker 2:You're going to make that sweet potato casserole. It's like a dessert. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1:So my perfect bite is going to be a little bit of sweet potato casserole, a little bit of my sister-in-law's delicious green bean casserole. She makes a green bean casserole every year, and I might be the only one.
Speaker 2:I feel like I need a good recipe for that. I don't want to pour it out, the can and cream of mushroom, and I want, I want a good one.
Speaker 1:Oh no, you got to cook down the beans okay like, I feel like if the beans are hard and cold, like no, I want to eat that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cook that down, okay, uh anyway.
Speaker 1:So the green bean casserole and a little bit of cornbread dressing. Cornbread dressing.
Speaker 2:Yes, I think maybe I've only had. Like, the cornbread dressing that I've had is kind of dry, maybe it it was, I don't know. But I would just always go for the rice over the cornbread. Why wouldn't?
Speaker 1:you just have both.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I don't know. Good question Maybe.
Speaker 1:I'll keep you a little bit of cornbread dressing. Let's do that, we'll swap, let's do that, okay, and we'll have a Thanksgiving coffee talk. Oh, I can't wait.
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Speaker 2:Yes, yes, the owner is so nice. He's such a nice person. Yes so, thanksgiving, okay so now that we are full as just can be, we are so full we sit and relax, and what we're going to get geared up to do on our phones, oh, we're going to shop baby, we're going to shop.
Speaker 1:It's time for us. Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, right down Santa Claus Lane.
Speaker 2:We got to get some shopping done we Black Friday shopping from our phones on the couch, in our pajamas or something comfortable. Yeah, if you're one of those that loves to brave, you know brave the weather, brave the crowds and stuff you just go. You just do it. I'm proud of you. I hope you find the best bargains, but me, I'm staying home.
Speaker 1:Oh, yes, and I have. I have gone black Friday shopping, but I don't really know, and maybe you can weigh in in the comments here, do you know? And by the comments I mean those of you who are probably watching on. Youtube or you know shoot us a message or something, cause we like to get messages about the podcast yes yes, um, do you? Is there still people that go? Are there still people that go black friday shopping and like do the whole thing?
Speaker 2:I think so I think there are. I think so. Now I don't. I'm wondering about like in my mind I'm picturing like best buy. You know people would line up out the door for like TVs and electronics and stuff, or toy stores and stuff. Is that a thing anymore? You know, like when people there would be a toy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's no toy stores anymore, not where we are, but they might have them elsewhere.
Speaker 2:Is there toys at us anymore, or are they closed everywhere? Yeah, that's sad.
Speaker 1:That's very sad. Because I like the bigger cities have like FAO shorts and you know there's got to be other toy stores.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I'm surely not lining up outside of Walmart.
Speaker 1:No, oh my.
Speaker 2:G, that sounds horrible.
Speaker 1:That reminds me of the time Tickle Me Elmo was such a big thing. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2:Absolutely Because I wanted one and I did not get one. Well, no, you didn't, because now I know my mama was not about to stand outside for hours and God bless it no. No Poor thing, yeah, but one of my cousins got one and she was playing with it in front of me. What did you do? Did you cry?
Speaker 1:I wanted to cry. I don't know if.
Speaker 2:I did or not, I probably did, but I remember boo-daying so hard over that. Oh my goodness, still not over that, clearly, clearly, you're still not over Tickle Elmo. And they had a blue one too, but that wasn't Elmo, it was. What was the blue one? I guess it had something. And then they tried to give me one of them like knock off Elmos, don't even come with it, don't come over here with no blue Elmo.
Speaker 1:That Don't even come with it. Don't come over here with no blue Elmo. That's not real. That's not real. I don't want to hear him laugh either, oh man.
Speaker 2:I don't want to tickle that blue, elmo. I don't want to tickle blue, whatever your name is Maybe a knockoff Elmo.
Speaker 1:I know that ain't Elmo, that's not red, no, but like or jingle all the way you remember that movie. So Jingle, all the way you remember that movie. So I made my kids watch that last year.
Speaker 2:They never want to watch nothing with me, so I'm like I have to like, make them and they're like oh, that was good, and then they like it after, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know it's good, it's a classic, yes, but like you know, the whole, like that was a big deal.
Speaker 2:And like people beating each other over stuff not me. I'm gonna let you go ahead and get it, because I am not getting my hair pulled out. No, no, we're not playing with that now. I know some, uh, girls, maybe men too, um, they like to go and do that because like it's a whole experience. Like they'll go get coffee, yeah, they go shopping, and then they'll take a break and go have lunch and then they'll do some more shopping. That sounds fine to me, but I'm scared, I know but it can't have no pressure.
Speaker 1:You know, like me and my mom and chase have gone, so much pressure. We went real early. There wasn't a whole lot of people there like we weren't fighting anybody for anything, you know. I mean, the only reason you go out is for a tv or like a xbox or I guess.
Speaker 2:so yeah, but like you want to have it, go a little later and just see what deals are still left, kind of, but not really specifically looking for something where you got to be oh my God, I got to get this, I got to get this. No, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:You can get it online, just it's easier, even easier than going to find it in the store. If somebody's already picked it up, you know so, and they're usually. The prices are comparable, usually, yeah.
Speaker 2:Like the prices are comparable usually. Yeah, like just get it online. I know that's the kind of generation.
Speaker 1:We live in online shopping. Are we still like running out of things? Though? Like I don't think we run out anymore, you know, like it's just there, you'll get it eventually. Might be out of stock for a little while, but I mean, everybody's going to be happy.
Speaker 2:Well, I'll tell you this like um last year or maybe a year before, there was a specific toy I was looking for for the girls they wanted and it was on Amazon, because I found it in. Amazon sends a catalog now. Okay, so they were going through the catalog, circled it, whatever, like I want to say it was early November. Let's just say I found it on Amazon, oh, okay, put it in the back, fast forward, maybe a week out of stock, like a little guinea pig and she had babies.
Speaker 2:And I ended up finding it somewhere else, but I paid dearly for it. I missed my window of opportunity to get it on Amazon and then I had to find it on some other bootleg site and I paid more. So this is your PSA Get your presents early. I did.
Speaker 1:I got two of them already. Don't play around Big ones. I need to do that, and you know what it's so nice about. Now you can get them on Prime Day, ship them over to your mama's house. True, they never have to pass the kids' eyes.
Speaker 2:That's true. I don't have to worry about a hiding spot Uh-uh, because my kids usually know, around birthdays and Christmas, don't go in my office because that's the hiding place. But they're getting wise to that, you know. Ship it to your mama or Miss Connie house. Don't even worry about it.
Speaker 1:That's what I do.
Speaker 2:Good idea.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and Chase too, like if I get him something, I don't want him to know what it is.
Speaker 2:You know I'll get it shipped tomorrow.
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Speaker 2:They're like ooh, so clean in your house it's so clean. Yes, and it could be not even like what you had mopped the last time I went. You had mopped earlier that morning and it was like night, oh yeah, and it still smelled good.
Speaker 1:You know I love that.
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Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:Thanksgiving. Oh man, Okay, what else we can talk about Thanksgiving? Um, you know what else I like about Thanksgiving? Um, it's a. It's a. It's acceptable to put up your tree, your Christmas tree. Do you wait till after Thanksgiving to do?
Speaker 1:your tree the day after, same here.
Speaker 2:So when everybody's running crazy on Black Friday, that's my day, that's our day to slow down, eat Thanksgiving leftovers and put up the tree I'm just getting so excited about this right now.
Speaker 1:And then my husband always goes get some eggnog okay, and sometimes we drink a little spiked eggnog like the Pennsylvania Dutch. I love it. And then the children we, you know we go get the Borden's, don't play. Don't play, just get the Borden's brand Just get Borden's and then um and we, they drink a little bit of eggnog and we always warmed up my eggnog, us too.
Speaker 2:Us too, but.
Speaker 1:Chase, didn't they just drink it thick like that?
Speaker 2:right out of the mug, thick and cold. My daddy would even cut it a little with like milk.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we cut it with milk, and then we put it in the microwave.
Speaker 2:Yes, us too, Okay so that wasn't just something my mama did no, we always warmed ours up Okay.
Speaker 1:She always cut it too Like it's thick, it is thick and so and Mr Pat, you know he come in for Thanksgiving with the Pennsylvania Dutch and I'm so excited I get to partake in that this year oh love it. I'm not pregnant, so yeah, I mean that's something special.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like the hot and then you can start putting your Christmas things out and like just the whole vibe is so you just? Oh man, I'm already getting the warm and fuzzies.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I love this time of year. But let me ask you this Are you dressing up for Thanksgiving? This is so funny.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay. So in the past I have, I have dressed up like you know, nice church clothes or something. I have also not dressed up before, and so like, just regular, like, like what I'm wearing now jeans and a t-shirt or something. So I don't. I can't really tell you that I do one specific thing. I don't know why. I don't know, it depends on the mood, yeah.
Speaker 1:But here's the deal about Thanksgiving. I'm sure going to wear either a dress or some pants with some give.
Speaker 2:Okay, got to have some loose clothing?
Speaker 1:Yeah. The Thanksgiving pants yeah, okay, I agree there. We need some Thanksgiving pants on nice and roomy.
Speaker 2:Hopefully the weather's cool. It could be hot, we never know. Around here you never know. If it's cool, you bring out your pretty fall sweater to wear. I got a good fall sweater on Thanksgiving, but it ain't always sweater weather.
Speaker 1:No, for Thanksgiving. It ain't always sweater weather.
Speaker 2:No, for Thanksgiving it ain't always sweater weather. We've had Christmases where we sweat ten, you hear me.
Speaker 1:I had one Christmas I did a video.
Speaker 2:No shoes on Barefooted on Christmas Day it wasn't cold at all, it wasn't. We never know what the weather is going to be like down here.
Speaker 1:And funny thing about dressing up for Thanksgiving is it's so funny because, like the fall colors, like really correspond with the food on the plate so like olive green yeah, you got your brown orange, the sweet potatoes orange.
Speaker 2:Yes, so you looking like the whole platter the cranberry sauce, mulberry colors, yeah, the whole family yeah, I mean just watch, okay, when you all go to Thanksgiving. But who's looking like?
Speaker 1:a dinner roll. Who is out there y'all? Who's out there, dressing like the whole Thanksgiving dinner? That's so funny. And if you really, really hit the jackpot if somebody's got all those colors on.
Speaker 2:Yeah well, a cornucopia. A cornucopia Of colors, yes, I love that cornucopia of colors.
Speaker 2:Yes, I love that. Go out there and see. Oh well, we sure hope and pray that you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving and just know that the Cajun Mamas are so thankful, so thankful for y'all, all the love and support that y'all show us all the time. And you know, I also want to mention if the holidays are hard on you, maybe you don't have your family, maybe you feel alone. I just pray right now, in Jesus name, that you feel loved and you feel seen, and, even if you are alone, that I pray that God will send a little wink from him that just to show you that you're not alone and that you are loved and you matter, and you know that he sends you an and that you are loved and you matter, and and you know that that he sends you an extended family if your family's not around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's, let's pray, let's say a prayer, let's let's do that for everybody right now. Okay.
Speaker 2:In the name of the father and the son and of the Holy spirit. Lord, we thank you so much for this special time of year where we can just feel your love even even more. As we get ready to celebrate the your birth. Lord, we ask you to please, um, to be with anyone listening right now that is maybe having a hard time for the holidays. You know, you know the need, lord, and you see it. You know their hearts and that they need a little extra love and a little extra attention, a little extra joy in their life. And we ask you to please send people, send signs, send winks, like we like to call it, lord. Send them some love and help them to feel seen and loved and known and appreciated. And we thank you for our families that you've blessed us with. Even if we don't always see eye to eye, this is the family that you have blessed us with and we ask you to please help us to all just get along and enjoy each other's company.
Speaker 2:And enjoy yes, yes, and we just thank you so much, lord, for all the blessings that you give us each and every day. We could never count, lord, we could never count how many blessings that you give us each and every day. We could never count, Lord, we could never count how many blessings that you give us the breath in our lungs, the food on our plates, the clothes on our backs. Everything, father, we thank you so much for. And we just ask that these podcasts bless whoever hears them and has ears to hear. We thank you for them. In your name, we pray.
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Speaker 1:Cajun Mama approved. That's right, thank y'all so much for listening, and y'all have a happy Thanksgiving from the Cajun Mamas. See y'all next time.