Thanksgiving
I had a nice quiet Thanksgiving at my house. Our Christmas tree was already up. We had put it up a couple days before Thanksgiving in case we would have traveled somewhere. I'm glad we didn't travel though. We did a lot of preparations for dinner the day before. Mom made the pecan pie the day before and also the cranberry salad. Dad took an extra turkey out of our freezer and cut it up to make stock out of for the dressing, noodles, and gravy. He also mixed up the dressing balls the day before. I made cranberry jelly candy too, but I had made it the weekend before and just cut it a couple days before. While the main dishes were baking and cooking on Thanksgiving morning, I watched the Macy's parade. There were a lot of things I liked in the parade, but they didn't have to include a musical number where two girls kissed. (ew. yuck.) My brother got here at the tail end of the parade, and he and I and mom watched the first part of the dog show. Colby was too busy watching Dad in the kitchen to see his lookalike, a Havanese in the toy group. We also saw a cute whippet in the hound group. I looked up the results online after dinner and found out the whippet was best in show. We had a great dinner of turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, noodles, sweet potato casserole, cranberry salad, roasted brussels sprouts, and pecan pie. I ate too much.
On Friday, I stirred up gingerbread dough. We had run out of ginger so Mom and I went to Publix to get more, and since she wanted to go to Belk, we went to the mall too. It wasn't crowded at all. They had cute but expensive Christmas decorations at Belk, and they had pretty colored hand mixers at Dillard's. There was a pink one and a light turquoise one. We already have the same model in silver though. Belk has a pink stand mixer too. I also went in Macy's, but I was so tired I sat right down on one of the display sofas. Then, we went up to exit 28 so Mom could go to Stein Mart. I went to Fresh Market while she was at Stein Mart.
I made some good sandwiches for my lunch on Friday and Saturday. I put a smear of mayo on the bottom of a hamburger bun. Then I stacked turkey slices and a dressing ball on it and a big slop of gravy. I put cranberry salad on the top bun and put it all together for a good sandwich.
I've been super tired for weeks now. I barely made it through church on Sunday, and I dragged at the raptor center yesterday. I've been going to bed super early and taking big naps and I'm still tired. I didn't even stay up to play dominoes after dinner last night. We had a late dinner, and I ate very little and tried not to doze off at the table. I could have slept in the dentist's chair today even, if I hadn't needed to hold my mouth open for them.
On Friday, I stirred up gingerbread dough. We had run out of ginger so Mom and I went to Publix to get more, and since she wanted to go to Belk, we went to the mall too. It wasn't crowded at all. They had cute but expensive Christmas decorations at Belk, and they had pretty colored hand mixers at Dillard's. There was a pink one and a light turquoise one. We already have the same model in silver though. Belk has a pink stand mixer too. I also went in Macy's, but I was so tired I sat right down on one of the display sofas. Then, we went up to exit 28 so Mom could go to Stein Mart. I went to Fresh Market while she was at Stein Mart.
I made some good sandwiches for my lunch on Friday and Saturday. I put a smear of mayo on the bottom of a hamburger bun. Then I stacked turkey slices and a dressing ball on it and a big slop of gravy. I put cranberry salad on the top bun and put it all together for a good sandwich.
I've been super tired for weeks now. I barely made it through church on Sunday, and I dragged at the raptor center yesterday. I've been going to bed super early and taking big naps and I'm still tired. I didn't even stay up to play dominoes after dinner last night. We had a late dinner, and I ate very little and tried not to doze off at the table. I could have slept in the dentist's chair today even, if I hadn't needed to hold my mouth open for them.