Why do I spend more time reading other blogs and leave mine stranded? Apparently I’m late on the post Thanksgiving blog. I, despite all my efforts, had a great time celebrating Thanksgiving. My mom and BFF came up from San Diego and brought their dogs, which upped the total of dogs at the Love Shack to 5 (we also watched our neighbors dog that weekend). It was a ton of fun, it’s always much more fun to spend time with dogs then people. I made a big meal, which I have to say was so fun. My mother in Law and one of my sister in laws came for dinner (the others were very missed). We also had a friend of Rob’s come for dinner, I had never met him but he was really funny and handled our crazy family quite nicely. Everyone seemed to love dinner, as they should….
Turkey with Smokey rub from William Sonoma
Green bean casarole
yams
homemade stuffing
Roasted asparagus
gnocci (have no idea how to spell this, but pretty damn good at making it!)
dinner rolls FROM SCRATCH!
pumpkin pie
oh and a delicious scalloped sweet potato w/ pecans that didn’t quite make it to the table after the this-is-really-heavy drop, yeah alllllll over the open oven door..floor…feet..anthro shirt…EVERYWHERE! Whatever, it was laughable. You may be wondering how I knew it was delicious? Remember the episode of friends, where Rachael and Chandler ate cheese cake of the floor, surgically cutting away the pieces that had touched floor, that was me on my oven door, I have no shame!
All in all it was a great evening (I will leave out the fight with the crazy lady occupying the shack behind us). I love my husband, not only does he accept me for my Martha wanna be ways, supports me in making far too much food, WASHED THE DISHES….BY HAND, he thanks me for working so hard making dinner for our family. Not the football watching ass scratching men I grew up knowing on thanksgiving. Thank you my love and your welcome.
(please excuse my lack of photos, I just wasn’t feeling the camera)
We also went to Napa that weekend, so fun, lots of good talks, good cheese good wine, good day.
What do you do when your a couple days away from having out of town guests, your house is a mess, you have a huge dinner to cook and you work the next 3 days…..
Life is good.
More randomness…
lots of projects going on at work
need to get a new garbage disposal, preferably before thanksgiving, oh crap I knew I forgot something
Going to a weight watchers meeting tomorrow, I’ve been a little lazy on the weight loss lately, damn you moist smoked rubbed turkey with all the fixings, and your left over friends who tempt me daily.
Had acupuncture today, oh what bliss, I love you little needles and soft hippy music and heat lamps and warm fuzzy blanky, thank you for a sweet nap.
Sharks have won eight in a row, maybe not 9, game still early but not looking good
Anxiously waiting for the Christmas shopping fairy to arrive with all my gifts wrapped in beautiful paper with hand tied bows, has she come to you yet? She seems to be running a little late this year.
