Happy day after, everyone! It's been quite a few days, and I'm feeling more exhausted than I thought possible.
Tuesday night, after our first pie night, Alan and I stayed up until 2:00 finishing up the painting and cleaning for dad. He arrived about 10:00 Wednesday morning, and oohed and ahhed over the paint job. Then, he, Timothy and I went to do some Christmas shopping. We went to Macy's and found incredible deals. Dad got a suit for Alan, a leather jacket for my BIL and one for himself, all on sale! The total for all 3 items was less than the original price for the suit alone! After that, Dad found some kitchen gadgets for his staff. Next, a stop at the
Disney store to finish up grandkids presents, then we stopped for lunch.
After lunch, we stopped at a grocery store to pick up some last minute things for Turkey day. We also picked up some Stilton cheese with blueberries. It was awfully good! Then, it was home to finish up pies for the second pie night. We made a derby pie, a strawberry rhubarb and a pumpkin with streusel topping. Dinner was tomato soup and then off to pie night #2. It was a lot of fun, and we had lots of yummy pies to choose from!
When we got home from pie night, Alan informed me that he was supposed to bring 4 dozen rolls to work for their Thanksgiving dinner. Of course, he didn't tell me until 9:00 at night! So, I went to work, making dough. Luckily, I have a recipe that allows you to do the first rise, and then put the dough in the fridge for up to 2 days, so I was in bed by 1:00 a.m.
Thanksgiving morning dawned early with a call from Alan's work. They needed him to travel to a cave nearby, where a man had gotten stuck in a passage called "the birth canal". He'd been stuck since Tuesday afternoon, and had passed away Wednesday night. Alan got the "enjoyable" task of interviewing search and rescue, and family members. So, while he did that, I got a head start on some of the things I needed to do. Namely, making the rolls for Alan, starting more dough for our own dinner, and things of that nature.
Dad helped out, and picked up the turkeys he'd ordered. It was amazingly relaxing, not to have to cook the turkey, or make gravy!!! By 3:00 we were ready to eat, so I called Alan to see what his plans were, and he told me to go ahead and eat since he'd be with the family until 7:00. We ate, and had a nice meal! After dinner, the kids went to the basement to play the Wii, and Dad and I cleaned things up.
We crashed into bed around 9:00, and I was so happy to see my pillow. However, I had to set my alarm for 2:30 so I could get the online Black Friday deals. Luckily, before I went to bed, I had bookmarked everything, so all I had to do was fill my shopping cart, and then check out. I was back in bed, asleep by 3:15. Bonus was, that I got everything that I wanted!!! Hooray!!! I may never do Black Friday any other way!
The rest of today was spent relaxing, and getting rid of a raging sleep deprivation headache! I think I'll be going to bed early. Dinner tonight is leftovers, followed by cake and ice cream to celebrate Timothy's birthday today!
My love to you all!!!
I thought before I go into the bank and have them laugh at me I would try it out one more time and whalla!
I can't believe Timothy is one already!!!!!!! Prayers for the family of the man who passed in the cave, how tragic.
