Have you wondered where I was?

Can you tell that these are turkeys? Look closely...

Here is something that you need to know about me. I am really good at starting things. Sometimes I just don't like finishing them. It's not that I CAN'T finish things. It's that I don't want to. This is for no apparent reason. Really. It isn't because things are hard or tricky. I just don't want to. There are PLENTY of things that I couldn't wait to finish; pregnancy, some family dinners, bad movies, bowls of ice cream, a good book. I think that a lot could be said about my personality by the fact that I don't like to do the last step. It is a wonder that I still have friends. This might be the reason I have Christmas Cards that are addressed and ready to go, but no stamps STILL on my desk from last year. This is the reason that I wash, sort and fold laundry and have it sitting in a basket, and then take three days to put it away. I have no problem loading the dishwasher and washing dishes by hand, but I don't unload the dish drainer or dishwasher. Can you see where I was going with this?

I just didn't feel like blogging for a few days. Strange, I know. I even had stuff to blog about (a long absent brother of my husbands showed up at Thanksgiving dinner, a basketball game in a box suite with ALL THREE KIDS....). I just had to sabotage it at the last minute. Welcome to the wonderful world of me. :-) I am not that worried about it. I really wanted to blog every day because it sounded fun. When it started being a pain, I stopped.

This is our traditional "brunch" food, a giant caramel apple. We usually get the one from Williams Sonoma.
It is HUGE and it can feed 10 people, easily. This year I got a smaller one from Albertsons.
It wasn't the same. Next year we will go back to the real thing . These are great
presents to your boss, your husband's secretary, and friends far away,
blogging buddies, siblings that love apples. :-)

Ahem....... but I do hope that everyone had a great Turkey Day. I hope that everyone got to eat their favorite dish. I hope that there was enough pecan and pumpkin pie for everyone. I am not a fan of turkey, but LOVE my potatoes and gravy and bread. We went to my husband's family for dinner where the food was divine (I ate just enough to be satisfied, but not enough to want to vomit....but not because I had self control, I was chasing Cubby and being spit up on by Norah the whole time. Lets just say I am lucky I got enough to be satisfied.........). We had family from out of state in town which was nice. It was also really great to see my husbands youngest brother. About a year ago he decided that he "needed a break" from the family and just disappeared. We knew enough about him that he was alive and safe. His friends checked in with his parents every so often. We have added children to the family and had other significant events happen. Some of the siblings are hurt (and rightfully so) and it has been strange to figure out how to handle this. He just showed up at the tail end of dinner (pretty brave if you ask me..) and everyone got a chance to talk to him and then off he went again. We might see him at Christmas, we might not. I guess he will figure out what he needs to and come home someday. Either way, it was nice to see him even if it was just for a little while. That was something to be thankful for.

Look mom! I made orange rolls!

Breakfast Casserole. Recipe can be found here

We had the fabulous brunch in the morning while watching the parade. Cubby was SO cute. He waved at every balloon that came by (and to be fair, they were waving at him first..) and danced and danced and danced to the music. It was awesome. We made turkeys made out of apples and gumdrops for our craft and for the place card holders for the big dinner. Derek stepped on a toothpick (thanks for finding it, honey) but even that couldn't put a damper on the morning. We had enough food for 43 people and the children, of course, ate almost none of it. After breakfast we went to the park by our house and walked around the lake a played in the forest of trees that have really bent branches and trunks that are SUPER fun to play on.



It was a really fun and relaxing day, but I missed having leftovers. So, I am off to put a turkey in the oven and to peel some potatoes..... it is Thanksgiving at our house. Again.