Second disclaimer...I am SICK AS A DOG!! Stay as far away from my house as possible...it is quarentined! Seriously, this is about the sickest I have been in a LONG time. I am wishing I could just curl up in bed and sleep for about a week...and have my handsome here to take care of me. *sigh* but life doesn't always work as planned. So as I cooked all day (and had to keep resting), we FINALLY got dinner done about 4 pm! (and Banquet TV dinners were not a part of it!)
NOTE: For those of you who have been to my house--check out the table--it is actually cleaned off! This is a rare state of my table--I ALWAYS have projects covering it! LOL
This is how our dinner turned out! We had ham, turkey, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes and gravy, biscuits, stuffing, salad and chocolate cream pie
After much discussion with the kids, we decided to have a ham this year instead of a big turkey--I actually HATE anything that comes on a bone--so the whole idea of having a big turkey with bones to deal with--really grossed me out! Although...I was quite suprised to find out the ham had a bone! Now I know for Christmas to look for boneless ham! LOL! This one had a YUMMY brown sugar glaze! Normally I would have used fancier serving dishes, but by the time the dinner was done--so was my cold medicine *grin*
I decided to surprise the kids and did make them a turkey too--I just cheated and bought the boneless breast!
Missy was being so patient for dinner to start. We did keep joking about the fact that this wasn't a normal dad thanksgiving though--the turkey was actually done before dinner was served! One year we invited a bunch of people from church over--and handsome MAJORLY miscalculated how much time the turkey wouls take. We ended up sending it home with people at the end!
Kimmy laughed about my "one person serving" turkey. She said that was her dinner! We did finally convince her to share!
Everyone seemed to really enjoy their food! I wish I could have tasted it *sigh* I HATE being sick!
I have weird children...that is just all there is to it. They love to make up weird concoctions! For example: Stevie loved to gross me out at a Chinese restaurant we went to in Idaho by putting sweet n' sour sauce on his mashed potatoes as gravy. Missy loves to put pizza pringles on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. And Kimmy? Well, she is the queen of it! Today's "gross-mom-out" concoction was a biscuit with mashed potatoes, gravy and turkey as a sandwich. Blech!
This is Stevie going for about his 6th serving of turkey! That boy wins the "shovel-it-in" award of the night! Yowza!
This is our "we-miss-daddy-memorial". One of the things Steven does that just drives me insane is that he will leave glasses of juice all over with just one swallow of juice left in them. Inevitably I will knock them over and make a mess! There was always a pitcher of juice on the counter and a glass with one swallow EVERY morning when I would get up! So...this one is for you handsome! We missed you today! I am so grateful that you are my hunky handsome husband, a fabulous father to the kids and a GREAT soldier! We miss you very much and this is the LAST Thanksgiving we can let you miss!
This was my EXCEPTIONALLY difficult Thanksgiving pie we had for dessert! I worked long and hard on making it look and taste so great! *grin* We also have a pumpkin pie (same type of hard recipe) that we get to have with all our leftovers! Yummy!
So...I survived making my 1st Thanksgiving dinner...even feeling as crummy as I did! *grin* We spent the rest of the night watching a DVD about Lance Burton, the magician (which means the kids have now pulled out EVERY magic book and kit we own). It was a fun Thanksgiving, all things considered!
One last thing...
We had so much fun with the DVD, we started playing on Youtube again with magician's and came across this video of Lance Burton. He was almost killed when a stunt went horribly wrong and he missed getting hit by a roller coaster car by only 1/10th of a second. It is quite amazing!
Happy Turkey Day!!
1 comment:
I also intended to cook for t-day but had to go to ohio to clean out Les' moms home. we ended up calling friends & told them we intended to bring our forks and crash the party. we went to two dinners- it was great. hope you start feeling better - maggie
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