~ Dec. 5, 2008
Thanksgiving Day 2008
So, I am finally getting around to telling you all about our Thanksgiving I think our Thanksgivings are pretty normal. We go to my mom and dad's house for 3 days, Thursday-Saturday. My parent's live about 30 minutes south of us. Our goal is to arrive at mom's before the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade begins at 10am. We pack the car with everything we need for the weekend-clothes, video games, food and Christmas shopping lists.
We arrived by 9:30, got our stuff situated and plopped in front of the television. During the beginning of the parade, mom get the turkey in the oven. Mom cooks the best Thanksgiving dinner. My sister and I bring munchies to nibble on over the 3 days. After the parade it is game time. We all love to play games, card games, board games, video games and PC games. During the course of the weekend we play them all. We are so competitive that there is now a "House Champ" chart on the kitchen bulletin board with a list of the games we usually play. The list is updated daily and is usually filled with the name "Poppop".
My sister arrived during the parade and her husband will arrive closer to dinner time, he's a police officer and he works the overnight shift so he sleeps in. We play games until about 2:00 when it is time to start the final preparations for the big meal. I am in charge of cooking the rolls. I'm not sure how I got this job, but I have been in charge of the rolls for years.
My brother-in-law arrives and we sit down to eat. We have moist, delicious turkey, mom's amazing stuffing, real mashed potatoes, carrots, green beans, sweet potato casserole, crescent rolls and boiled onions.
After dinner it was back to playing games for most of the rest of the night. Of course...I can't forget to mention dessert which included pumpkin pie, apple pie, lemon meringue pie, chocolate pie, brownies and chocolate chip cookies. Yummy!
We are so blessed to have our family so close. I do hope you had a blessed Thanksgiving as well.
