I had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I love family time and I am looking forward
to Christmas and our REALLY BIG family get together.
I met up at my aunt and uncle’s
house. My older sister Jenny and her
husband Will were not in attendance and neither was Kenyon, who had to
work. We still had a large crowd.
These are the turkeys that my
grandparents got when they went to dinner at their new retirement community
dinner. They are made from a small candy
bar.
I look forward to having some wine since
I don’t drink unless I am in a social setting. I try to start with small pours so I can feel
like I am having a couple of glasses (also these are really BIG glasses). I
started with St. Chapelle’s Moscato.
I then tried some New Age wine my friend
Kate gave me. This is not super sweet
but has a nice sparkle to it. I
actually had two small pours of this, one was with dinner.
Not to worry! Lots of H2O was also consumed.
I didn’t take many photos of our amazing food
spread but this was a cranberry jello mold my Dad made. It actually has horseradish in it. It was pretty good.
Mmmm….Rhodes rolls are just as good as
homemade but without all the work. I
often skip the roll since I have both wine and dessert but I have been really
craving carbs lately. So I enjoyed a
roll and talked myself OUT of eating second one!
My cute nieces “toasting” with their
sparking cider.
Here is my plate. I got some turkey and ham along with mashed
potatoes and gravy. The gravy is a port
wine reduction gravy and is super rich.
I had some cranberry and the cranberry jello mold, salad, one sweet
potato bit, a few bites of stuffing, and a roll. For those
of you that are hard-core WW members, you will notice that I didn’t follow the
TNT rule (Things Not Touching) on my plate.
Thanksgiving is too yummy to follow the rules!
I forgot the corn casserole so I had to
make some room and get a little.
I was one of the first to finish, I still
have not mastered the act of slow eating, and after thinking on it a bit I
wanted more turkey, ham, and corn casserole.
Part way through eating my aunt informed us
we were eating with my Great Grandma Birmingham’s silver. These were uncovered in my gandparent’s
recent move and the sell of their house.
Grandma B would be 100 years old but she passed way at age 93.
I should have waited and had my dessert
later in the evening. Since I am on the
graveyard shift and was going to be up all night that would have made the most
sense. Since I didn’t do that, I enjoyed
some of my sister Jenny’s chocolate wine cake and one of her homemade caramels. I also had some Marie Calendar’s Razzleberry
pie. It is a favorite. Whip cream on the side and some coffee.
My aunt and I took the girls for a walk to
see the lamas that live a few houses down.
Lamas are freaky animals! Even
when it would turn its head away from us the eyes were ALWAYS watching. Freaky!
Several houses further down the road was
an actual lama out on the street. They
were taking it for a walk! We got to pet
it and the girls let me take a photo.
When we weren’t looking at lamas the
girls I were entertaining ourselves by playing hide and seek. Emma, who is 3, isn’t very good at waiting to
be found. I wouldn’t have seen her
hidden under the pillows except she popped up and looked at us. Great hiding spot!
I brought home two rolls along with some turkey and ham
so I plan to make sandwiches the next few days.
Yum!
