We again are in our pajamas. We had a fire up until the activity of dinner was more important than fire keeping. I plan to stoke it up soon. Well, actually start it again, since it went out completely.
Our menu included: the all important turkey, mashed potatoes, squash, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, corn, and biscuits. Dessert is apple and pumpkin pie, with homemade whipped cream.
Gary and I usually both make dinner. He cuts up what goes in the turkey, and I do the turkey handling. I make the cranberry sauce, since he doesn't eat it. He makes the stuffing. Ironically, we hardly had any of our own spices for this meal. I did the apple pie, he made the pumpkin. He also cooked the squash and the biscuits. I made the gravy and the mashed potatoes. I also worked very hard opening the can of corn, which was the only thing from a can. [If we were in our kitchen in Lansdale, we would have had fresh frozen corn from last year.] We made everything else from fresh ingredients.
It was our first attempt at pumpkin pie made from pumpkins. It will not be our last.
While the food prep was occurring, the children spent time watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, PBS kid shows (incidentally whenever I say they watch TV, 99.99% of the time I mean PBS,) the National Dog Show, and some football. They also built a fort, played with toys, and colored.
Josh is really only smelling the pie, though it looks as though his whole face is in it. He actually won't be getting any, since he wouldn't finish his dinner.
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