Early Thanksgiving Day

Our turkey dinner was delightful. My turkey was just perfect (as always). Sister-in-law made everything else - and it wasn't so good. She made stuffing (not a favorite of mine), a corn casserole (again, not a favorite), greenbean casserole (bleck), sweet potatoes (didn't like them the way she did them) and a potato casserole (yuck). I brought over the turkey and gravy and pumpkin bars. I completely forgot the pumpkin cheesecake in the chaos that ensued before we left.

Let me tell about that. We were scheduled to be at brother-in-laws house between 6 and 6:30 pm. I worked until 3 pm then came home and napped. I got up about 5:00 pm, told hubby to bathe the little people then stuck the pan of turkey in the oven on low to warm and made the gravy. I discussed with hubby if we should frost the pumpkin bars or not. He said only if we had cream cheese to make cream cheese frosting, we did because I always plan ahead for holiday dinners. So he made that and I cut them up and put them on the try. The little people wanted to try them and I let them. It was nearly 6 pm as we started getting everything covered and ready to go. I dressed the little people and fixed their hair. Hubby took a lightening fast shower and got dressed. As we gathered the diaper bag the kids milled around either playing or whining. I had to reprimand Super Girl several times. About 6:20 pm I see that Cabbage Patch has been helping herself to the pumpkin bars and is now covered from her eyebrows to her knees with frosting. *sigh* I go find another sun dress for her to slip on as hubby wiped her down. Super Girl refused to put on her shoes until I told her that daddy and Cabbage Patch would go on to dinner and we would just stay home. We finally get into the car at 6:50 pm and arrive at 7 pm. I told hubby I wasn't to worried about being late since we were bringing the turkey - it's not like they could start dinner without us.

The kids didn't eat much of dinner - I really couldn't make much of a fuss about that since I only at the turkey and the rolls. After dinner all 5 kids went outside to play with the dog. When the conversation turned to politics I retreated to outside with the kids with sister-in-law. I was lucky enough to be there when Super Girl fell off the top of the slide (small slide) and ended up scraping up her face. She was a real trooper though. She cried for a couple of minutes then just sniffled as I cleaned her up and put ointment on her. She INSISTED on having bandaids though and ended up looking like she had just been in a boxing match what with her big bandaid on her forehead and one under her nose. She's fine now, just scraped on her face (uggh... I just realized she has dance tomorrow... Hate having to take her out looking like that) and a bruise on her hand.

All in all it was a good dinner. We will do it again with just father-in-law and his wife this Thursday - I'll make mashed potatoes and some veggies to go with my dinner as well as dinner rolls or crossants (made by me). Anybody want to join us? All you have to do is wash dishes after. :o)