Thanksgiving Recap!
I hope everyone had a great holiday (for those who celebrated.) Ours was really nice- a couple glitches as always, but overall a success. Let’s start with… Thanksgiving Eve This was a day of pie making and Christmas tree getting! We like to get our tree the day before Thanksgiving, but we wait till Black Friday to decorate it. Our cat was very interested in these developments… We had a Thanksgiving Eve charcuterie board! SriMu is a fancy-schmancy vegan cheese that we order for special occasions. Then the pie making commenced. After all my ranting and raving about pie, I felt like they came out EVEN WORSE THAN USUAL. Seriously. I know I said I’m not that great at it, but I’m not usually THIS bad. The crusts looked great before they went in the oven, so I’m not sure what happened. The fillings were all good though… so we still got to eat pie, and that’s the important thing. Thanksgiving Day Everything went great! Nothing burned, the house didn’t fill with smoke, and we didn’t forget anything… EXCEPT THE CRANBERRIES. It was around noon that my son asked about the cranberry sauce, which is when I realized I somehow forgot to put it on the shopping list the day before. My husband was elected to run out to the store- always fun on Thanksgiving Day- and returned home with a can of Ocean Spray jellied cranberry sauce. Mmmm! High fructose corn syrup! That’s okay… I wasn’t eating it anyway, and the family thought it was just fine. The biggest triumph of the day was this… We always say we want to eat Thanksgiving dinner at 4:00, but never manage to have it ready in time. It’s usually around 6:00, but as you can see, this year we ate at 4:07! My son and husband made this salad, which deserves its own picture: After we ate we went for a walk, then watched Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Then we had pie! And it was still early enough for the food to digest before bed- yay. Black Friday Groan. I always work on Black Friday, while the rest of the family lounges at home. To cheer myself up a little, I stopped at Starbucks on the way to work, and when I got home, the first thing I did was eat a piece of pie. Then we decorated the tree! We made the controversial decision to move the tree away from the window this year (I think it fits in the living room better this way.) Also controversial is the star. Our old one stopped lighting up, so my son and husband ran out to get this one while I was at work. I think it’s a little small- what do you think? The rest of the house is about halfway decorated. It’s a big job, because first it had to be de-pumpkined. I’m a little sad that pumpkin season is over, and sad that my son goes back to school tomorrow. This was such a fun week. But, onward! It’s time for gingerbread and Christmas music! I can’t be sad for long. How was your Thanksgiving? Did you forget anything? Any emergency trips to the store?