"Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed."

 

Deuteronomy 28:5

"Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed."

The countdown to Thanksgiving has started.  If you haven't put your frozen turkey into the refrigerator by now, do so immediately.  You're probably still going to need to thaw it in cold water to make sure it's ready on Thursday morning.

Today and tomorrow will be my baking days.  I had already planned on baking my bread today (see early post for the mini-bread loaves that I'm baking for everyone).  God decided to bless me this morning as I was reading my daily devotional with this verse from Deuteronomy -- "Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed."  Also, my mother has my great-grandmother's kneading trough on the divider in her kitchen.  What a wonderful Bible verse and memory to have today as I make my bread and knead it (even though I'm using an electric mixer!) and bake it.

So here's my checklist for today:

• bake bread
• bake cornbread
• bake carrot cake cupcakes (for my son-in-law's birthday)
• make sugar cookie dough (cut & bake kind), refrigerate to bake and decorate tomorrow with my grandkids

 I hope you're taking time today to be thankful and that you're checking off all of those tasks on your holiday checklist.