Random Friday -
(no 5's next week for Thanksgiving weekend. sorry denise wall! :) he he he)
1. Describe your IDEAL Saturday. First of all, it would have more hours than 24... So. I'd wake up around 9 (after 10 hours of sleep of course), eat breakfast with the kids and everyone would get dressed. It would somehow still be 9am and we'd head out the door to go to the Greenway, walk to the park and play on the Jungle Gym. We'd have a picnic then finally go for the scenic drive. I've always wanted to go for a drive on, the Natchez Trace Parkway. On the way home there would be a roadside carnival (Michael would be in a good move and would JUMP at the chance) of which we would stop and Evan would squeal on the baby roller coasters and point at lights and name all their colors. He'd eat a corn dog, cotton candy and popcorn. C.G. would smile and wiggle her chubby little arms all about watching Evan have such a fun time then we'd all go home, have baths and crash asleep.
Marie Callendar's Pies: Lemon Meringue, Pumpkin with dollop of whipped cream.
That my whole family will get together to make a meal and eat together. It's loud and crazy, kids running around everywhere, some adults at 'the big kids table' others at 'the little kids table' with their kids. We just eat and talk and play with the people we love. That's all I need, people who know me and love me and let me love them. Ahhh... home....
Michael cooks about 90% of our Thanksgiving meal here in Tennessee. I'm grateful to him for doing that for me (not because he cooks cause I can do that but he really enjoys doing it) so I can feel close to my family during the holidays. Growing up, my Mom did most of it but everyone chipped in. She was up late the night before and early the next morning with the Turkey but she didn't have 11 children for nothing! ;0) lol. One of my proudest moments was when my dad started letting me make the whipped cream for him cause he said I did such a good job. I don't have a recipe for it but I can eyeball making the way he and I like it right Dad? :) A quart of Heavy whipping cream, eye ball about 1 1/2-2 cups of powdered sugar (LOL!), a capful of lemon extract and a larger capful of vanilla extract. Whip to your hearts content, taste along the way incase it needs a little more of something and enjoy on pumpkin pie, jello, on a spoon by itself (he he he), cherry pie etc. Thanks Dad, it really meant a lot to be given that job. As time went on, I'd like to believe my dad even prefered my whipped cream to when he used to make it in his family. ha ha ha.
I think I've already covered that I do NOT enjoy shopping what so ever. Let me expound on that by saying, you could not pay me money to go shopping the day after Thanksgiving because the traffic in the parking lots (much less the roads) would give me severe road rage. I don't think the deals given in the past few years have been anything special but then again I haven't had children to buy for so maybe the big deals are geared towards childrens toys? Anyway, no thank you. I would love to go to the green way or Seigel Soccer fields jungle gym that day though if anyone else wants to go. As a matter of fact, I'd love to get a soccer game together. Who's game!?
2 comments:
Just had to tell you, Kevin was born the first week of January, so the black Friday before that, I was HUGE. I decided I wanted to see what all the hub bub was about and went at like 5am. LET ME TELL YOU, not a SOUL cared that I was this huge waddling woman. They knocked me around trying to get to whatever they could. I left after about 15 minutes of being bashed...empty handed. Never again. EVER!
Your comments are very valid. I would never delete them. How horrible the comments you get are. I am so sorry you have had to deal with those. Maybe one day adoption can and will be different. We love our little ones and they are so very precious to us and no one will ever take that away. Loves to you and your family!
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