It was a day of cooking and fun and sleeping and movies and eating and cooking and sleeping and eating and cooking and...
Saturday morning 18 girls stepped out of their "homes" to a crisp, windy but sunny day and headed north from Teen Mania to our home for a day of Thanksgiving dinner preps from SCRATCH! About the only thing that came out of a "box" was corn starch and baking soda.
We started the day about 9:30 with all the raw ingredients- a turkey, flour, yeast, cranberries, celery, onions, apples, pumpkin (this was in a can-but not the pre-mixed kind); potatoes, etc. By 4:00 after all the girls had several turns in the kitchen they turned out a 16 lb. stuffed turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, corn, green beans, a luscious salad, a cranberry relish jello salad,
Parker house rolls, and PIES! 2 pumpkin, cherry, apple, chocolate and lemon meringue. What a feast it was. 
Some of the girls had never cooked anything from scratch so we had some interesting moments- learning to READ and follow the recipes....working with yeast doughs, and lots of laughs and just really great fellowship.
We had girls from all over the country, from California to Maine, Washington, Colorado, Virginia, Oklahoma, Indiana, Ohio, and beyond. 
Thank you Lord for the opportunities you give me to speak into these young girls' lives. I am so blessed!
3 comments:
Oh Mary Beth, how awesome!!!! Thank you for being such a great example of Titus 2. I love and miss you so much! What fun this day had to have been!
Wow, that's awesome! I have never cooked for a holiday meal like that either...I need to learn!
you don't know me, but i'm an alumni from 02-03. I came across your blog and i wanted to say that I think it's great that you're helping to teach/lead/mentor the ladies of TM. the older generations must teach the younger! thank you.
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