{"id":1496,"date":"2009-11-23T10:02:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T14:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2009-11-23T10:02:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T14:02:25","slug":"cooking-turkey-in-the-hot-tub-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/cooking-turkey-in-the-hot-tub-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking Turkey in the Hot Tub \/ family"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Outdoor Cooking: Turkeys in a Hot Tub<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you can find NOHING to be thankful for, thank God that these silly birds won’t be coming to your place for a holiday meal. (Notice that the tub is being held over open flames by…um, kitchen stools… (?) yeh, ok…) Why do a suddenly sense an\u00a0ambulance\u00a0in the future for these people?<\/p>\n

Quite a few of us will be with family for the holidays. This may be wonderful, or well, tough. You can choose your friends, (who can function for you as a “family of choice”) but you can’t choose your family. If you only see your relations a few times a year, (or less) keep some perspective to keep yourself grounded. Firstly, think of sanity as a goal, not a good time. ;)<\/p>\n

Plant firmly in your mind that you probably can bear anything for a few days\u2013even prison. Maybe even full blown torture. How bad can water boarding really be? For instance, I’d take it over having to watch Adam Lambert perform, like he did on the AMAs!<\/p>\n

If good times happen during your visiting with relatives, count that as a blessing. But, don’t expect a lot from people you don’t often see. Sure, they will bother you, and get on your nerves. They might try to make a spa whirlpool from a tub, a roaring campfire, kitchen stools, and the gas from the beans they had the night before, but you can handle it. Why? Because you’re better than them? Because you’ve had a ton of spiked egg nog? No…well, I think, no.<\/p>\n

What will truly help, is to see a bigger picture. Time is on your side. You don’t spend your regular life with them, or in these holiday situations. Hang in there-Be your best self, and know that the holidays are just a temporary gathering time. You don’t always have to be right, or have a dream holiday experience. And you don’t have to let them bother you. Turkey soup doesn’t last all year!<\/p>\n

What’s your strangest holiday memory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FUNNY cooking turkey in the hot tub FAIL photo, and dealing with holiday stress and family on the holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[3,137,189,328,591,686,689,817,1121,1199,1222,1291,1660,37,1704,1705,6538,1882,2016,45,2054,2409,2512,2534,58,59,74,78,3376,3377,87,3648],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-fail","tag-adam-lambert","tag-amas","tag-bad-relatives","tag-celebration","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-cooking","tag-cooking-turkey","tag-encouragement","tag-fail-photo","tag-family","tag-fire","tag-holiday","tag-hope","tag-hot-tub","tag-hot-tub-cooking","tag-humor","tag-joy","tag-life","tag-life-as-prayer","tag-listening-to-god","tag-open-fire","tag-peace","tag-personal-growth","tag-photography","tag-practicing-the-presence-of-god","tag-spiritual-growth","tag-stress","tag-thanksgiving","tag-thanksgiving-day","tag-walking-with-god","tag-water-boarding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}