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Things have been going pretty well lately, I honestly cannot complain that much. Our overall health lately has been really good, which I'm thankful for. No major cases of being overly ill outside of an occasional running nose or slight cough. Emily is doing well on her medication. A few week ago, we switched her from a compounded syrup medication to a pill. I was really nervous about changing it and about giving a pill to a 2-year old, but it has actually been pretty okay. We give her half a pill, 3 times ago. The pill is tasteless so she just pops it in her mouth and goes on. My kid is amazing, I'm telling you. I'm so proud of her. The pill is also A LOT cheaper than the syrup was so that's a big win, too.
We hosted Thanksgiving at our house again this year Typically, we only have maybe 8-10 people here and it's usually just immediate family. This year Ellie (cousin's wife) called and asked if I was going to make a dinner and if everyone could come. I couldn't just say no (because I am a sucker) and so suddenly I went from planning on having something like 10 people to planning to have 30 people. It worked out well though. It was Danny, myself, Evan, Emily, my dad, my mom, Meme, Papa, Cody, Mandi, Hope, DC, Faith, Katy, Tammy, Brandon and Jodi (listing names so I can remember in the future lol!) so 17 people. Ellie and Dylan didn't show up or even bother to call me to let me know they weren't coming. Jera and Tobey did the same thing. I'm angry not angry that they didn't come, but I am angry that they didn't bother to even tell me that they weren't coming.Rude.
I brined the turkey again this year and everyone went crazy over it. I'm proud of that. We also had ham, mashed potatoes, green been casserole, stuffing, rolls (though not homemade because I burned two batches, got pissed and gave up on them), sweet potatoes, cheese ball, candied carrots (first time making them, they were delicious FYI), deviled eggs, and my Meme's noodles. For dessert, there was pumpkin pie, pecan pie, chocolate pie, cheesecake and banana pudding. All was delicious and we ate for 3 days on the leftovers...which is my favorite part of thanksgiving! Leftovers! Overall, Thanksgiving was a big success.
We did a tiny bit of black Friday shopping at Wal-Mart. We bought 2 new pair of pajamas for each kid, socks, and Evan some new jeans ($8 Wranglers, win!). We really didn't have the money to do a big trip like we have in the past and I'm pretty much okay with that because there really wasn't anything majorly on sale that was on our list to buy. Christmas around here is going to be pretty light anyway. Cutting back and budgeting and such.
We hosted Thanksgiving at our house again this year Typically, we only have maybe 8-10 people here and it's usually just immediate family. This year Ellie (cousin's wife) called and asked if I was going to make a dinner and if everyone could come. I couldn't just say no (because I am a sucker) and so suddenly I went from planning on having something like 10 people to planning to have 30 people. It worked out well though. It was Danny, myself, Evan, Emily, my dad, my mom, Meme, Papa, Cody, Mandi, Hope, DC, Faith, Katy, Tammy, Brandon and Jodi (listing names so I can remember in the future lol!) so 17 people. Ellie and Dylan didn't show up or even bother to call me to let me know they weren't coming. Jera and Tobey did the same thing. I'm angry not angry that they didn't come, but I am angry that they didn't bother to even tell me that they weren't coming.Rude.
I brined the turkey again this year and everyone went crazy over it. I'm proud of that. We also had ham, mashed potatoes, green been casserole, stuffing, rolls (though not homemade because I burned two batches, got pissed and gave up on them), sweet potatoes, cheese ball, candied carrots (first time making them, they were delicious FYI), deviled eggs, and my Meme's noodles. For dessert, there was pumpkin pie, pecan pie, chocolate pie, cheesecake and banana pudding. All was delicious and we ate for 3 days on the leftovers...which is my favorite part of thanksgiving! Leftovers! Overall, Thanksgiving was a big success.
We did a tiny bit of black Friday shopping at Wal-Mart. We bought 2 new pair of pajamas for each kid, socks, and Evan some new jeans ($8 Wranglers, win!). We really didn't have the money to do a big trip like we have in the past and I'm pretty much okay with that because there really wasn't anything majorly on sale that was on our list to buy. Christmas around here is going to be pretty light anyway. Cutting back and budgeting and such.