Thanksgiving 🦃

Thanksgiving was such a great day. After doing some cooking prep the night before, I slept in a little bit before heading to help in the kitchen.

We started off with some breakfast: sausage cheese balls, yogurt parfaits, and lemon monkey bread. Once the sausage balls and lonely bread were headed for the oven, I got to hold Teddy for a while. We walked around the kitchen watching while final breakfast prep was done. He likes to be able to see everything. Once breakfast was ready, I kept hold of Teddy while Sarah and Joe ate, and he fell asleep too. Once he woke up, I fed him, and Sarah took him to burp him so I could get some breakfast. As always, it was delicious.

After breakfast, we did some dinner prep like getting sweet potatoes ready and shredded some brussel sprouts for the brussel sprout salad. The Macy's parade was on in the background, the first time I got to watch it without a grainy, lagging video from a YouTube live stream from my desk at school. As we continued some dinner prep, we got some chips, dip, cheese, and other snacks out to nibble on.

Once dinner was ready, we all sat down to eat. There was turkey, of course, ham for Sarah (weirdo), garlic mash, butternut squash, the brussel sprouts salad, sweet potato casserole, cran nut bread, cran relish, and bread rolls. It was a bountiful feast. We all laughed and talked, and even Teddy lay in his bouncer smiling away as we all ate. This was our first holiday all together for 9 years. It was amazing. After dinner, we let the food rest for a bit before we all had apple and pumpkin pie. I hope my apple pie is as good as my dad's some day.

Sarah has to work on Friday, so once dessert was done, we all helped them get ready to go. I managed to get one last round of Teddy cuddles in. The rest of us stayed up longer watching the football games and drinking before bed. Tomorrow we will head out to pick out our tree and see the new Moana movie 🍿Read more