November 27, 2008

• Happy Thanksgiving!

  To all of my readers in the United States,

  Happy Thanksgiving! 

  I’m on here briefly because my husband just woke up and I need him to get the turkey from the garage refrigerator to the kitchen.  I’m done straining my back trying to lift that big bird!

  I plan to serve dinner at 5pm.  Stephanie has plans earlier in the day at a high school friend’s house and, since it’s Rissy and me doing the cooking, I figured I needed lots of time to cook without knocking the stuffing out of myself!  The older you get, the harder it gets.  Well, in some ways . . . I truly believe I could make a Thanksgiving dinner with my eyes closed, but my body rejects the opportunity to spend hours on my feet!

  The girls are so excited.  I don’t know why.  They don’t care for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and they don’t get anything except a turkey dinner . . .   I guess my deprived children rally whenever there is a chance to celebrate *anything* around here!

  Speaking of my children:  To show their level of excitement, I took some pictures yesterday. 

  We had the Seasonal Music Channel going on our television
  
  I’m happy that the girls are beginning to learn some songs.  Also happy they aren’t learning the “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” song or other such comical seasonal songs.  Whether this is the date Jesus was born, or not, they have picked songs like “Joy to The World” and “Angels We Have Heard on High “  Songs that meet my strict approval.

  While the music played, I made up some pumpkin pies and taught Rissy the basics.
  
  
  And while the pies baked, my children found a way to relieve their pent up energy.

  Explanation first:  Our bedroom hallway is somewhere around 25 feet long.  My girls recently saw pictures that my friend, “the other Lori,” posted about her girls’ gymnastic meet.  So, my girls (in pursuit of imitating the other Lori’s children) set up their own practice gym.

  Here’s what I found as the explanation for all their screams and excited laughter.
  
  Annamarie
   
  She had a pretty good spring from her spring board (Is that what it’s called, “other Lori”???)

  Rissy
   
  Rissy doesn’t have the spring the others had, but I’m happy to see these pictures.  She is the child they thought would be a “vegetable, IF she lived” and we’re thrilled she exceeded the medical staff’s predictions.

  BUT . . . LUCI got the first place blue ribbon award in jumps for her heigth and “form”!!!!
  

  Bye Byeeeee Luci!
   
  Note:  Look back at some of the pictures and you will see Chirper’s hind end under the step stool!  I prayed the step stool didn’t cave under the girls’ weight!  I had to get him out from under there, as the whole enthusiasm and jumping made me nervous for his safety!

  He was content playing with one of the girls’ stuffed animals.  REALLY content!
  
  

  He dragged this from one of their rooms to the formal living room and proceeded to kill it!  Gently, of course!
  

  I didn’t hang the garland like I had hoped.  “Female issues!”  I was hoping I was done with all of that.  What great timing, right?  The day before cooking a huge feast!  Oh well.  Mainly I have horrible low back pains.  Annamarie rubbed my back this morning and loosened me up quite a bit.

  Yesterday evening, I washed all the large pans and ran the dishwasher after dinner.  Jesse brought home a bucket of “on sale” fried chicken and I made acorn squash (recipe from my friend Shanda) and that was our dinner.  I was beginning to suffer from back pain and quickly went to bed to get off my feet.

  As I think of what needs to be cooked today, I think it’s all doable.  So, I should be fine if I pace myself.

  There you have my yesterday and today.  Maybe I’ll have pictures tomorrow of the festivities.

  Be blessed  ~ 
  

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