A little behind...

  Wow, how the time flies!!!  I got just a little behind here.  So this post will be my attempt to catch you up on a few happenings here on the hill :)  Our TURKEY DAY was wonderful!!  Unfortunately Grandma and Grandpa S. weren't able to make due to Grandma being ill.  She so lovingly declined our invitation to prevent her wee grandbabies from becoming ill.  Thank you.  So our TURKEY DAY consisted of Me, my Beloved, and all of our 7 children!!  The table was full of goodies!!  A HUGE THANK YOU goes out to Grand ma S.'s boss who so kindly thought of our family when he ordered the beautiful, grain fed, natural, fresh turkeys.  This beautiful bird weighed in at 17 pounds and should have taken 5 hours or so to cook.  We (being the intelligent family that we are) decided it would be best to prepare the side dishes closer to the time the bird would be done!  Makes sense right?  Well the bird outsmarted us.  After just 3 hours of cooking it was done!! My Beloved checked it with a meat thermometer in several places (none of us could believe it was done!)  and long behold the entire bird was done!!  Imagine the panic here when we realiz ed we had nothing done to go with it!!  So like mad men we peeled potatoes, made wild rice, carmelized apples, sweet potatoes and squash, green beans, rolls, etc.  Thankfully it all got done and the turkey was still warm.  We all sat down and enjoyed the meal.  Although the gravy just wasn't right (that's because Grandma wasn't here and I just cannot make gravy!!)  Something new we did this year was to create a Thanksgiving tablecloth.  Everyone drew something on it.  It was alot of fun and it will be cool to pull it out again next Thanksgiving.  Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Talk to you soon!