My Thanksgiving Holiday
November 26, 2007 @ 11:55 a.m.

Pros and cons....

Well my holiday started early. I went to my sister-in-laws over the weekend on the 17th and 18th. Made alot of pies and cakes. Let's see. Made a Lemon Meringue Pie, 2 lemon pound cakes, 1 carmel cake, 1 yellow cake with milk chocolate frosting, 3 sock-it-to-me cakes, and 5 sweet potatoe pies. Cleaned 20 bags of greens. That took all day Saturday.
Then on the 22nd I drove out to my mom's which she taught me how to make pie crust from scratch. I never tried that before. She has these cool cookie cutters that are shaped like leaves. So on the apple pie instead of a solid piece of pie crust it's of all these leaves. Really cool. We made my aunt an apple pie and a pumkin pie. I should go over there and get a piece, but knowing how many people are there it's already gone. I got this new chopper gizmo which helped cut up all of the onions and celery. Then my husband called and asked me if I asked my mom what I wanted to learn how to make, I forgot what it was and he said the buttermilk chicken. So for dinner she made it!!! I had it for lunch today too. She made me a pan (6 pieces)and her a pan, 6 pieces. It's GREAT!! It's just like I remember it.
So, I leave her house around 7pm, I stop off by my sister HB's about 8pm, then off to Girly's 8:45pm. I call my aunt to tell her I'm on my way. I get there about 10pm. My cousin "L" is there that I don't ever remember meeting. If you're reading here, it was VERY nice to meet you. I'm glad that you're stopping by to get to know everyone. I'm not sure if you really know how much it means to her. So everyone is there talking and what not and then it's time to go. I drop her off, come to find out she only lives a few blocks away, and I mean CLOSE blocks. And she lives with her sister. Holly Cow!! The oldest brother lives in New York and is doing well from from she told us. So I leave and go home. I get home at 11:30pm. I'm tired.... Oh, and I caught a cold, so I'm sick too.
Thursday, Turkey day!! I get up about 8am, get ready and pick up my nephew. I get to my mom's about 11 I think it was. So, I'm in the back everyone is running around having a good ole' time, my mom's husband is getting sick too. WOW. I hear my mom ask my sister how much longer on the oven. An hour and a half. OK, it's already almost 2. Usually it's ready by 2:30pm. So, we sit down at 4 to eat, I was hoping that I would be out of there by that time. Guess not. My phone rings, it's my husband. We're just sitting down to eat now. You're not going to make it to see everyone. What am I suppose to do? It's ok babe, everyone knows you went to your mom's, it's ok. So now my illness is kicking in real good. He said all of that but what I heard was, everyone is here and they have something for us. Where I got that from what he said is beyond me. So I sit down and eat with my family. After I was done, I got up and put my dish in the kitchen, her husband does the dishes. I get my things together and ask HB if she can take our nephew home because he wanted to stay longer, she said no problem. I told my mom bye and she said your leaving, from there it just got really ugly... she said some stuff I said stuff back and out the door I went. I called my husband and told him I was one my way. When I got off the freeway my phone rang. It's my mom, ok. So I answer it, she says she's sorry, I'm sick, she got upset because I was upset. So we said sorry and we love each other. Ok, that's good. I get there and several people have already left. The ones I actually wanted to see because one of his brothers is in the service and we only see him once in awhile. Oh well, perhaps he'll come up again later. So we end up staying and we got home about 9pm.
Friday. I woke up at 12:30pm. REALLY SICK. So I get up and get something to eat and went back to sleep. Woke up later. Ate a little and went back to sleep.
Saturday. Woke up at 8:30am. Feeling better. Made breakfast. Bacon, eggs, and biscuits. Cleaned up and watched some football. Took a nap. Woke up about 3:30. Defrosted dinner. Made Chicken, sweet potatoes, greens, and stuffing. Cool...FOOD! Went to bed about 9pm.
Sunday. I'm not sure what time it was when I got up. He ate leftovers from breakfast before. I ate the buttermilk chicken. I couldn't taste nothing. Then I went and watched tv for awhile and feel back to sleep. I woke up about 2 and went and watched football in the front room. I ended up watching it until 9 when the Eagles and Pats game was done. And went to sleep.
So I wake up this morning at 4 and toss and turn, he woke up at 3:30 to go in and do payroll. So I get up at 5:15 and get ready. I get in my car, 227.7 miles is what I drove on Thursday. WOW!!
So I don't want to do any traveling for awhile, oh wait, yeah awhile...December 23rd right mom. That's a month of rest. So hopefully this cold will be gone too.

Well, I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving!!!

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