Day 61: Thanksgiving!!

November 25, 2010

Thanksgiving! My favourite holiday. I have such great memories of going to my grandma's house: we'd play outside, climb the pine tree in back, and come in to the warm house and the amazing smells. This side of the family is Polish so there was always tons of food. All so delicious! Turkey, cheesy potatoes, green beans, sweet potatoes, pickles, olives, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, rolls... Mmmm.... I love that Thanksgiving is about family and friends and food and fun. No gifts, not as much hype as Halloween or Christmas. Just right. Watching the parade (the Detroit parade, that is) is always a tradition. Sadly, the only parade we get out here is the Macy's Day which is okay, but there's too much... fluff in that parade. Too much talking to actors, too many performances. I want to hear the marching bands and see the floats. That's the parade. Alas. It'll have to do.

Jacob enjoyed seeing the balloons on the parade today. He helped me get some dough ready for our dinner rolls. He was pounding it with his elbow! The turkey's in the oven, starting to smell quite yummy. We have a fire going. I'm drinking a mimosa, and there's even a dusting of snow out on the deck. Lovely. A perfectly relaxing day. 

Relaxing until the last minute rush of getting all the dishes together. Fraser and I were just hanging out thinking, we're fine, everything we're making won't take long. Riiight. None do on their own but when you have two people in a small kitchen, one oven and a small child wanting to be a part of it all. We ate later than we had planned but it was all so good that it didn't matter: turkey, cheesy potatoes, green bean casserole, home made cranberry sauce, stuffing, our dinner rolls. Followed by a wonderful pear, cranberry pie with oatmeal struesel. Whoa. When the meal was ready Jacob was doing some jumping about and shouting, "Yea!"

And for a special dessert for the boy: sprinkles.