The HEA Cafe

Hopefully, I am not going to upset anyone celebrating Thanksgiving — Canada celebrated their in October, probably because our winter comes earlier than yours.  Anyway, yesterday I went shopping for the ingredients for my Christmas Pudding. Yep, to me the Christmas season always starts when I make Christmas pudding.  Stir up Sunday, the day for making Christmas puddings is the last Sunday before Advent, though I may get mine done a bit earlier.

In our family, everyone must stir the pudding before it is cooked, so I have to time it around when I know everyone will be available. And this is what makes it one of life’s simple pleasures, remembering stir up Sundays with my mum, when she remembered the same thing with her mum.
So what does this have to do with my title.  Well, while I was shopping for the stuff, it made me think how wonderful it is still to be part of a tradition that has been going on for so long, just like the American Thanksgiving. And since I write Regency historicals it is kind of nice to know that I am still doing something the same as my characters experienced.
I do wish you all the happiest of Thanksgivings with your families and friends.

And since this is a writers blog, I should mention that The Lady Flees Her Lord, should now be in a store near you.  Seeing your own book in a store is another of life’s pleasures (but not quite to simple).