Considering we are at T + 6 days for Thanksgiving I am not going to write the heartfelt post about all the things I am grateful for, all the people I appreciate, everything I am truly blessed to receive. It’s all been done by now, I am sure you are sick of hearing about it.
What I will do is tell you how our day went – it was fabulous.
Now that Mom is living at our house people come to us, I love that. Due to my sister’s work schedule we appointed 5pm the eating time. This was great. Mom & I did not have to get up at the crack of dawn to make stuffing and put the bird in the oven, instead we all slept in a bit, had a leisurely breakfast and then ate cinnamon rolls while watching the parades. Side note on the parades – I sure do not remember all those commercials when I was a kid. We did not even have a remote control back then, thank goodness I could skip around now or we would have had to sit through more pharmaceutical commercials for men’s personal issues that I ever cared to know about. Annabelle, who does not get to watch television under normal circumstances, loved the floats of Abby Cadabby, Dora and the ice skating Care Bears. Santa Claus bringing up the rear made her entire day.
Around lunchtime we started preparations at our own pace. Got the bird in the oven, started on the casseroles, and got ourselves ready. Stacie came over around 2 and helped us peel close to 1 million potatoes. Stacie’s mom arrived a little after 4, and then Karen & the boys arrived shortly before 5. We sat down, had probably the best meal I can remember in forever, then relaxed and talked until our dessert guests arrived. Tom’s family, Mom & Dad, sister Kathy & husband Jeff, niece Jenny, nephew Chris & wife Lisa (Annabelle’s Godparents) and nephew Eric joined us for as Stacie described “a metric ton of pie”.
Annabelle loved having everyone there and even though she was operating sans nap she was happy and silly with everyone. She had to demonstrate how she could dance, which mostly consists of spinning around in circles and occasionally flapping her arms (she gets this from her Dad). An extra bonus was a call from Aunt Charlotte from her work trip in India. We were all so relieved to hear she was safe considering the craziness that was going on over that day. We had a wonderful visit with everyone and Tom surprised my Mom & I by cleaning up the remaining dishes after we went to bed. It was great to wake up to a clean kitchen.
This is the only picture I had taken all day. There just always seemed to be something to do, even at our relaxed pace and it slipped my mind until way too late.
I hope everyone had as wonderful Thanksgiving as we did, I felt so truly blessed.
1 comment:
Well, the one pic you got is adorable!
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