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Happy Thanksgiving!
"Family, friends, food, and beautiful flourishes are life's graces, and we ought to celebrate them everyday."--Donata Maggipinto
We woke up at an early 3:30am;contact-less and drowsy. All to clean the turkey and get it in the oven. After that was accomplished...Baby, thought that he'd put the alarm on every couple of hours so we can wake up and check on Mr. Thomas (the turkey.) Somehow an hour later we were awaken by scratchy sounds, a.k.a "the alarm." I said, "It will be fine, we just put in it there." No, baby had to go check on it. All to come back up all 18 stairs just to say that it didn't look any different. I guess two hours later we woke up again, based the turkey and went back to sleep. This went on until about 7am when Brevin, woke me up with his loudness. After speaking to him sternly about being quite while the other people sleep...I checked on Mr. Tom, based him with some butter and herbs. I tried to go back to sleep. Of course when I finally DID fall asleep I heard a LOUD SNORT. Who else, but Baby snoring. Ugh! Was I going to ever get any sleep this Thanksgiving morning? No, was the answer that I then didn't know. I tried falling back to sleep and guess what now? The girls. Meesa, had woken up with Aiy and they were playing, loudly. They're right next door to our room. I got up again all to tell them that they need to go downstairs and turn on the t.v. until we get down there. Feeling I had lost the battle with the technique of sleep...I gave in. I got on my new cloudspun, grapesorb robe and headed down stairs with Baby,to meet the kids. I started on the potatoes. I peeled and peeled while the kids ate breakfast. Then, it was the sweat potatoes. Yummy! By then "Mr. Tom," was done and looking quite handsome. Double yummy! I headed up stairs to get the kid's clothes picked out. I opened Brevy's blinds all to see "Kitty" walking across the street and into our driveway. I flew down the stairs yelling,"Kitty is here!" The kids came running and we opened the front door and he came right in. LOL. We ended up playing with him for a whole hour. It didn't seem like it, but I still had to get the kids ready. Grandma and Grandpa, were planning on coming at noon, Here it is ELEVEN O'CLOCK. We put kitty outside and ran a bath for Aiy, got Brevy and "Bones" dressed, and I jumped in the shower. We rushed around and got ready in time. Then, I had to set the table...Which helper Aiyana did for me. I had to mash the potatoes, and finish up by cooking the corn, biscuits, and stuffing. We got a lot done in a little bit of time. It was fun! The kids had a blast running around. We still had time to play while we waited for Grandpa. He got there on time and Kitty came back in for a little while to play. Grandma called and was going to be a little late. We started slicing the turkey and put Kitty outside with a bowl full. I don't think he minded one bit. As Grandma and April came. Guess who showed? Marisa! A pleasant surprise. Brevy and Meesa, said the grace together and we all ate and ate well. The kids ran off upstairs to play while Charles and I, took Aiy back to her "mom's." We came back and found Grandma and Grandpa finishing up The Polar Express." Good movie! We watched the Cowboys play and it was nice just sitting around with them. I shared some wedding pictures and finally gave them their digital wedding albums. (OOPS!) All and all it was a good night. We're done with cleaning up the kitchen, food is all put away. The only thing I want to do now is watch "LOST." My favorite t.v. series. :-) Then, go to sleep because the tryptophan is working it's magic. Good Night!
"A good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody."-- samuel pepys
We woke up at an early 3:30am;contact-less and drowsy. All to clean the turkey and get it in the oven. After that was accomplished...Baby, thought that he'd put the alarm on every couple of hours so we can wake up and check on Mr. Thomas (the turkey.) Somehow an hour later we were awaken by scratchy sounds, a.k.a "the alarm." I said, "It will be fine, we just put in it there." No, baby had to go check on it. All to come back up all 18 stairs just to say that it didn't look any different. I guess two hours later we woke up again, based the turkey and went back to sleep. This went on until about 7am when Brevin, woke me up with his loudness. After speaking to him sternly about being quite while the other people sleep...I checked on Mr. Tom, based him with some butter and herbs. I tried to go back to sleep. Of course when I finally DID fall asleep I heard a LOUD SNORT. Who else, but Baby snoring. Ugh! Was I going to ever get any sleep this Thanksgiving morning? No, was the answer that I then didn't know. I tried falling back to sleep and guess what now? The girls. Meesa, had woken up with Aiy and they were playing, loudly. They're right next door to our room. I got up again all to tell them that they need to go downstairs and turn on the t.v. until we get down there. Feeling I had lost the battle with the technique of sleep...I gave in. I got on my new cloudspun, grapesorb robe and headed down stairs with Baby,to meet the kids. I started on the potatoes. I peeled and peeled while the kids ate breakfast. Then, it was the sweat potatoes. Yummy! By then "Mr. Tom," was done and looking quite handsome. Double yummy! I headed up stairs to get the kid's clothes picked out. I opened Brevy's blinds all to see "Kitty" walking across the street and into our driveway. I flew down the stairs yelling,"Kitty is here!" The kids came running and we opened the front door and he came right in. LOL. We ended up playing with him for a whole hour. It didn't seem like it, but I still had to get the kids ready. Grandma and Grandpa, were planning on coming at noon, Here it is ELEVEN O'CLOCK. We put kitty outside and ran a bath for Aiy, got Brevy and "Bones" dressed, and I jumped in the shower. We rushed around and got ready in time. Then, I had to set the table...Which helper Aiyana did for me. I had to mash the potatoes, and finish up by cooking the corn, biscuits, and stuffing. We got a lot done in a little bit of time. It was fun! The kids had a blast running around. We still had time to play while we waited for Grandpa. He got there on time and Kitty came back in for a little while to play. Grandma called and was going to be a little late. We started slicing the turkey and put Kitty outside with a bowl full. I don't think he minded one bit. As Grandma and April came. Guess who showed? Marisa! A pleasant surprise. Brevy and Meesa, said the grace together and we all ate and ate well. The kids ran off upstairs to play while Charles and I, took Aiy back to her "mom's." We came back and found Grandma and Grandpa finishing up The Polar Express." Good movie! We watched the Cowboys play and it was nice just sitting around with them. I shared some wedding pictures and finally gave them their digital wedding albums. (OOPS!) All and all it was a good night. We're done with cleaning up the kitchen, food is all put away. The only thing I want to do now is watch "LOST." My favorite t.v. series. :-) Then, go to sleep because the tryptophan is working it's magic. Good Night!
"A good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody."-- samuel pepys
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Well, I am sure not making it up...Silly. Yeah, we did all that and more actually. I forgot to mention how we were pillow fighting on the floor after the game of checkers that Brevy and I, played. lol. The kids were beating me up...Remember? That was fun!!!
Love ya, too. Miss ya today tho. Crazy Black Friday. ugh.
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Hillary |
11/25/2005 10:39:00 AM