Everyone as shocked as I?

If you are reading this you are probably as shocked as I am that I am here typing this :) It has been a while. I know. I got to a point of being overwhelmed with being so far behind. It's that darn snow ball effect! Why must you be there snowball?? why?why?why? So why am I back? well I had this epiphany as I was catching up with an old friend tonight.... I do not have to share every waking thought (i mean who would really want to hear those?) And that is what I was thinking, for some reason that and the lack of time to share those thoughts were overwhelming me. SOOOOO I figured I will start out tonight with something about what happened at thanksgiving and that would be enough.

Thanksgiving was a blast people!!

I will admit I LOVE to please people with food. I feel like people should love food as much as I. I am not a fan of people but I love me some food! I had so many things that morning/night before that were going wrong I just thought it was all gonna be a flop. Wrong... WHY?? partly I am sure because my mommy was praying for me, she knows me and knows how crazy and blown up I can make things :) LOVE YOU! <3 Now, I have a few food traditions... I am not talking about anything fancy and of course we still have the turkey and potatoes, and stuffing and cranberry sauce. I am talking silly things like #1 I always make dinner rolls from scratch. I can not tell you what a blessing it was for us to get a bread maker two years ago. I think the thing was used every day for those two years. well the problem was when we moved, mom and I made sure the paddle for the bread maker was put somewhere that was easy to remember, we both knew where it was. We even saw it once we got moved in... however... I could not find it Wednesday and I still have not found it. Unfortunately we did not get home made dinner rolls :(

Bad incident 2: I am a big believer in "children should not be in the kitchen when using very Hot items" My biggest problem is having children running THROUGH the kitchen when I am cooking. I do not mind if we have planned for them to help cook and they are there, and following instructions. Jo has always had trouble feeling things that are Hot and we have dealt with many burns with her, and i like to prevent them as much as possible. I do not have a regular metal roasting pan, so I have to buy the little 99 cent aluminum ones. NO problem. This however was my first year making a 20 pound turkey and lets use the excuse I had mommy brain for a moment! Of course lets also not forget the 5 sticks of butter I crammed through-out the turkey :) what does that equal? anyone? I went to pull the turkey out of the oven and the pan bent. Not even really bad. However, it was just enough to cause a bit of the 8 cups of drippings to slide down my legs which then splashed onto Daniel (who is also not allowed in the kitchen when mom is cooking lol) and poor poor Levi. I must give a shout out to my Jesus for being our protector! no one got burnt. He is good isn't he?! I mean that could of been a serious.... serious incident!

Bad incident #3...as dorky as this may sound..... I am still learning our refrigerator.... what does that mean you may ask? well I will be happy to elaborate! we have a side-by-side fridge... I AM not nor am I sure I will ever be a fan of them. it is very difficult to fit platters in a side by side *hand raised* can I get a witness??? lol anyways. that is not even the point. I have had an unlucky finger that is so missing its lovely skin! every time I take something out of the 3rd shelf on the door I seem to rub it pretty darn hard on the shelf right above it. Apparently I am not one of those humans that does something once, learns from her mistakes, and moves on never to do it again. I did it thanksgiving eve or morning, SHEESH i cant even remember! i do remember how much it hurt and that I had to take some time to then clean up the blood... awwww... what a nice treat!

bad incident #4 which I know does not technically have any business of my own.... technically :) In the process of finishing up our glorious meal we hear sirens. OK we do live near a fire station because I hear them all the time, no biggy. Well, WRONG-O! Daniel comes down the stairs and out the door, he comes in and says there were 2 cop cars speeding down to the opposite corner of the street, they hop out of their cars with guns drawn. what the heck-o? turkey-dispute? still do not know what happened. but have thought about moving... been here what 3 months and have had this on the street, a robbery across the street WHICH, wouldn't you know their last name is the same as ours? whats the chances of that? well I am sure if your last name is like smith or something else pretty common the chances are pretty high but LAIRD??? most people have no idea what that says :) Oh, now do not forget the father down the street who decided to give his one year old MARIJUANA for his birthday!! yeah that one was all over the news.

I will give you a bad incident #5 and I think I wont need to say more after this. fair? I thank so :) Of course if you know me, you probably know that me , myself, and I do not agree with stairs. I swear they are out to get me! I fell down them last week. yep that's right. I seem to also not be able to remember that yes, there are hand rails, yes I do use them, however, sometimes.... just sometimes... its important to LET GO of the rail when you are falling! otherwise you now have a very bummed shoulder, a very, very bummed shoulder. I give props to the one armed and one handed people who cook on a regular basis because it is NOT easy and can cause problems such as... having trouble holding and maneuvering a 20 pound turkey!

Stopping on just 5 pretty good/bad incidents [taking my advice of not sharing every detail :)]. I will now continue with the GREAT and awesome turkey day!

Are you not wondering who came? or did you think i was gonna eat that turkey myself?? bwahaha
Pat, Skip and Carrie-Anne [Daniels mom, dad and sister ] grandma Mary. Aunt Maureen, and uncle bill [pats mom, sister and brother].
We had a blasted. Everything was so pleasant. No one fell asleep lol. good conversation. great laughter, even some baby tears, great food [thank you , thank you *bowing*]. everyone left around 8ish and I have heard from almost all of them how they had a great time! what a blessing to be a part of giving such a great day to people :)

Now tomorrow is Jo's birthday party and I cant WAIT to hopefully have everyone [including myself] feel blessed again! If my camera was not broken I would have a lot of pictures so thank you skip for providing us with a picture :) However I can not seem to download it today :(

I hope everyone else had a blessed and awesome day!