I'm patting myself on the back for having the foresight to make sure my boys could cook!

Good call!

I am mad that I am now sick, not just for the holiday, but for a long weekend off work! Boo.

{{Jesse}} That sucks. May it pass quickly.

My BIL is staying home due to tooth awfulness, but otherwise all are coming. I've organized my to do list sequentially. Took drugs for my back and am watching the parade until they kick in. Savannah's gloves are nice.

Gratitude in abundance for Buffistas.

I wonder if my mild dislike of Thanksgiving is in part because my father died the Sunday before it in 1969? I've never connected that before....

No doubt, Theodosia. My mom didn't celebrate until after her kids went to school because her gram that raised her died on Thanksgiving. Part of my reasoning for not commemorating death anniversaries.

The kids have arrived to help cook. I better shower!

I LOVE YOU ALL AND THIS PLACE!

4&1/2 house and the street, 2 hrs and 3 huge bags of leaves. Need to eat something & shower & get dressed. And get gas.

Theo, I wouldn't be surprised. Years ago we were having a huge Thanksgiving with my mom's side of the family, 20+ people. This was our normal annual gathering. My aunt and uncle had divorce years before that, but he always joined for a time before heading back to his new wife and her family.

Well, we had dinner, I had given him a new set of Santa Claus business cards (he absolutely looked like Santa all year around). He left our celebration, got to his wife's, and basically keeled over with a heart attack and died later that day. That was our last big celebration. Partially because the family started moving in different directions but also it was emotionally too difficult.

All that being said, now it is a time to remember him and how much he loved his family and love delighting kids who asked if he was Santa.

Timelies all!

Going to my MIL's for Thanksgiving, as usual. Bringing an apple pie.(store bought, because it had to be kosher parve.)

That makes sense, Theodosia.

Jesse, much health~ma to you.

I've finished the sweet potatoes, Waldorf salad, and apple tart. The pumpkin tart is in the oven. I have a dining space set up, the crystal washed, and all the serving dishes that I hardly ever use washed and ready. People aren't arriving until around 5:30, so there's no point in putting the hens in the oven until 4 (they take about 1.5 hours), and the dressing cooks with it. And the asparagus is only a 15 minute thing. Once the last tart's out of the oven I guess I can grab a shower and enjoy the dog show on NBC.

I'm running so late. Mac just got in the shower. Turkey Breast will take 1.5 hours and we have to get over to parents yet. we should be leaving in 15 min and he never takes less than half an hour. grr.