NOT SURE WHERE TO START, WHAT TO SAY.......
Etc. I guess that I'll start with Thanksgiving. I got totally Lazy this year. I bought pies, they were terrible. I usually make them myself. I wanted to just go out to dinner but, my sweet daughter would have nothing to do with it. I bought dinner rolls, well they were ok. I didn't make frog eye salad, this is a first in alot of years. I cooked the turkey, it was great, man I am a good cook. I made stove top stuffing instead of home made, I did cook whole yams for candied yams and I did real potatoes for mashed potatoes. I hate instant potatoes. I love home made gravy for my potatos but, I have discovered a really easy way to make it. I use the broth left from the turkey. Then I use a turkey gravy mix that I buy at the Wonder Bread store to mix with it. It turns out awesome. So all in all dinner was relatively easy.
I got up at about 9:45 that morning because some lady called and seemed to know me, I was pretty sure that it was a wrong number but I really wasn't sure. She also sounded like my aunt but, I couldn't imagine this particular aunt calling me on Thanksgiving morning. I was trying to find one of the other phones to check the caller ID when she called me Kim! I said this is Suz Anne we don't have a Kim here. She then asked me "then where is Kim?" to which I said again, "we don't have a Kim in our house hold." She finally realized that she had called the wrong number. Boy was she embarrased. I was just talking to her to make absolutely sure that it wasn't someone that I knew. The Macy's parade started just a few minutes later so we sat down and watched that. This is probably the first time ever that I have actually watched the parade from start to almost the finish. That is a 3 hour parade. That is just nuts!
We didn't have dinner until 5:00 PM. We usually do it around 2:00 pm but my neice and her boyfriend wanted to be here at dinner time and they had to be with his family at 2:00. They showed up just shortly after we started eating. They had a plate with us and we talked and had a really good time. Everybody was fighting over the bottles of Martinelli' sparkling ciders that we had bought, note to self, more Martinelli's for Christmas! After dinner we moaned and groaned because we had all eaten so much, and watched a couple of movies so that we could relax.
Mom W was here 12/01/2005 11:00:00 AM
