I guess I should be updating about the new year, but I won’t quite yet. I forgot to post Christmas photos.
I gave Sydney and Matthew a gingerbread house.
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I suppose Thanksgiving is nearly over and I haven’t updated in quite some time, so, might as well.
Last weekend, we had pre-Thanksgiving festivities with my family. Unfortunately, we forgot our cameras (rawr!), so I don’t have any pictures to speak of. Just a couple of shots taken on Christopher’s phone and a few videos, but nothing worth publishing. It was great to be home visiting with the family and we brought our new kitten with us–for some crazy reason. She cried for the first two hours in the car and then nestled on Mr. Rufus’s cage (our rabbit). It all is rather silly traveling with a dog, rabbit, and cat just for a couple of days. I felt like one of those circus wagons riding along the road and our’s happened to be part of the zoo. I’m glad that we brought all of them, though, because my niece and nephew really love the rabbit and the dog and got to meet the kitty whom they also fell in love with.
Now on actual Thanksgiving, Chris and I were hosting for the first time and his family came to Lynchburg today. We woke up to Neko and Abed-nego having a vicious dog-cat battle on our bed. Chris managed to take a video with his phone (is this the hey-Chris-has-a-phone entry or what?) and I posted it here for all the world to see if it so chooses. I think you have to have Quicktime. As you can see in the video, these fights are always started by the cat, she always goes for Abed-nego’s neck, and he always lets her win. How sweet….
We got up and I did last minute cleaning while Chris prepped the turkey. We brushed butter and herbs on the outside and stuffed the turkey with celery, onions, and herbs. The turkey stood prepped and popped in the oven around 10:30 am and we waited for family to arrive.
His family came in around 11:30 am, hellos and talks and how-cute-is-that-kitty and yes-Bendy-we-still-love-you and then we smelled it…. A hint of burning. The turkey–which we expected to be done around 2:30 pm–was completely done at 1:00 pm! So, we quickly made the rest of the sides (corn, broccoli with cheese, cranberry sauce, hand-made mashed potatoes, stuffing, and rolls). No, I’m not a casserole person. Sorry. Had there been requests, I certainly would have complied, but there were none. Anyway, we threw it all together while Chris and his dad carved the turkey.
p.s. How cute is my sister-in-law, Elizabeth?
Everyone seemed quite happy with the food, so I think it was quite the successful first Thanksgiving. Then, as we were doing dishes, someone (I don’t remember who) pointed out that we completely forgot to put the rolls on the table. Ahh! They’re the best part! After dinner and clean up and dessert with coffee, we rode around to look at the silly people camped out in front of stores and wandered through Wal Mart to look for silly people. Picked up Funny People from a Redbox, but turned it off about 20 minutes it. Too over the top. Sorry. Instead, we watched bits of Home Alone and Love Actually. And now it is time for bed.
Tomorrow: catching a movie and crazy shopping.
I was having an off day. I suppose it was a “case of the Mondays” on a Tuesday since it is the first day of my work week. Nothing seemed to be going my way, but nothing was that bad. Just inconveniences.
I decided to try a new recipe to make up for it, so on the way home from work, Chris and I stopped by the grocery store to pick up a French baguette, artichoke hearts, and low fast cream cheese. I made a spinach artichoke dip with toasted slices of the French baguette. Yummmz.
Now the rain, which had me bummed earlier today, is actually quite soothing.