Just What We Needed

You can go ahead and add “4 day weekends” to that “What I'm Thankful For List.” Geez we needed that. I had no idea how much!!

Wednesday night we got together and cooked up our offerings for the larger extended family Thanksgiving party. We made sweet potato spoon bread, cranberry cornbread stuffing, apple cranberry relish and Russian veggie pie. They were all awesome and I would make them all again, paticularly the spoon bread. YUM.

Thanksgiving day was nice. We hung around in the AM and Tabby did some painting and had a nap. We had a very nice time with the extended family, eating a lot and playing games.

Friday was the day of LAZY. We mostly just each did our own thing, Matt or I switching off playing with Tabby who completely refused to nap. My mom came over and we had leftovers and watched Ever After.

Saturday we did our family adventure. We went to Matt's woodworking store, my art supply store, a kids' consignment clothing place (where we paid $30 for awesome shoes and a cashmere sweater!) and had lunch at a great fish 'n' chips joint. After that grocery shopping had to be done and when we got home we didn't even take the groceries out of the car … just left them there in the cold (it finally snowed!!) and I deeeeep cleaned the fridge while Matt and Tabby napped. After the nap, Matt and I both went a little nuts and cleaned out quite a few messy corners here and there that we never seem to get around to

Today was the day of decorating and since we had a freshly cleaned house and a stocked pantry, we could get on with it. My mom and sister came over and we all watched Elmo's Christmas Countdown (an early xmas present to Tabby from my mom) and decorated the tree … then mom went out in the snow with Matt to light up the huge pine that is in our front yard. It looks great.

A few loads of laundry, a few cleaned up corners and some more gorgeous snow and the weekend is done. Thank you, sir. May I have another?