Thanksgiving Story on Black Friday...

Last year was the first time I have ever gone out for actual shopping on "Black Friday" I must say I really don't see the hype for it, sure I got all my Christmas shopping done on that day but really I wouldn't say I had a good deal that it was worth my while. I must say it was fun just to go out and hang with my sister and friends, I will do it again but it will really be for the company. When I have my son I don't go out for shopping then, no offense but I would prefer to spend time with him. I must thank my family for picking up a few things for me and looking for others.

I got the joy of serving Thanksgiving dinner, a week before the holiday I had realized I didn't have anything bought yet. I got it all bought and was working on cleaning the house then. I know it's family but I need to be able to feel comfortable in my house if we will have everyone over, clean is the only way. It was not the cleanest but survivable.

The night before I was working on cleaning when I get the call from my sister, "Hey, you coming over to help tonight?", yes that's right I forgot about the race day packets and helping with the race. If I didn't have enough to do already, but we made it over to help after we got the boy's room cleaned. We worked on the packets got them done and had to head home and worked on cleaning more. My wonderful young son saw me getting more stressed and was willing to work on cleaning so I could prep food for the next day. He cleaned until 2 in the morning with me prepping food. I must tell you I was never more proud of him then him stepping up to help me out, I love these moments when I see what a wonderful young man he is becoming. I let him sleep in as long as he needed the next morning while I got the turkey and food cooking. I want to thank my sister for letting me get out of helping on race day (I promise next time I will be more prepared) so I could finish cooking and cleaning.

Usually my dad comes over and gets the turkey prepped and in the roaster the night before but he didn't come down this year. I woke up and was getting it ready. I remembered to wash it off and the the innards bag pulled out and the neck. While I was covering it in homemade rosemary butter I was looking at it and wondering first, which was the breast side and second where were the drumsticks because don't they normally stick out? I got all confused and didn't know what I was doing so I went to the back of the turkey. Oh wait there is the drumsticks tied up with a plastic thing. Yes, I realize I am not a cook by nature but come on I should have credit for taking the bag and neck out.

I am sure it is easier to remove the plastic from the turkey if it is not all buttered up and in a roaster but why would I make things easy on myself. The turkey was not done in time, when we pulled it out it was still not cooked all the way, I felt that I had ruined it all but they all made me feel better about it (yep I over react and still I wonder where the boy gets it from).

My family usually never eats my stuffing/dressing (call it what you will I call it stuffing) and H will usually eat it with me. This year just to please us two we decided we would upgrade Stove Top, we added in fresh onions, celery and dried cranberries. We did use half a package of bread chunks too, but my family gobbled up the whole pan! Who knew!

I appreciate my mom for bringing me a bottle of wine, it was wonderful.

Then we were watching tv going through ads and talking, we got all worked up because of an actor on the tv and who he was and what he was in. It was all good fun though. I couldn't have asked for a better day.

The boy will not be here for Christmas, he will be celebrating Chanukkah (harmonica according to the boy)with his father and step family. H said they say a prayer all the time and his dad says he does not need to say a prayer because he is Christian but that he should try anyway, I let him know that a prayer comes from your heart and it doesn't matter who you are praying to as long as it comes from your heart so he can pray with them to share their holiday.

Long time no update

Wow, so much for actually updating this in a timely manner.

First and foremost I have a new nephew (and no I don't remember if I already mentions this already even though I just read what I put on the blog)!!!! What a hoot and an adorable little boy. I can't wait to meet him, our family from Vegas are coming up for the Thanksgiving holiday. I am excited for that. My sister, bless her heart had a baby WHILE attending law school! WOW! I admire her because that is a tough journey but I know she can do it. My bro-in-law will be the primary caregiver though once she is done and the are moving back to Utah. I can't wait. I know she is a very independent person but it will be good to have her back home, I don't think she knows how much she was missed.

Halloween has come and gone, well H was a "scary" vampire. I say scary because he was a vampire before but he was too scared to wear the make-up but this year he had to have the blood that came out of the mouth. So we did one of those capsules, he didn't like that so much. So the other two times we just used a red stick to make the blood. He was much happier with that. I was told by the little man that he was going to have to get a bigger bag or dump his bag because he was going to get so much candy. Well we had not even made it around one neighborhood when he was complaining that his bag was too heavy (not even close to being full) and that he was done. I tell you he never would have survived a night with me trick or treating when I was a kid. We would take two pillow cases sometimes and come back with at least one full, and if we made it home by 10 our parents were lucky. We did find a place that had hot chocolate and made doughnuts, that was cool. My little sis also had a friend who made a spook alley that she told us about so we hit that up too. He was excited for that, he even went in a second time.

Thanksgiving is around the corner, AHHHHH! I am still trying to get the place cleaned up because they are coming. H was so worried that we were not going to get a turkey in time. Everyday he was asking. Got it on Sunday, but I still have alot that needs to get done. I gave the big sis the sweet potatoes, but she better make the GOOD ones. I don't know if my and baby sis have expressed this enough to her yet.

I will yet again promise to make this a better habit of updating but you know how empty that will be.

peace out