Thanksgiving Week 11/25/24 - 12/01/24

Monday: First day of school break. We went to Ford's Parkinson exercises. AA had her first PT session with Richard. It went well.

Tuesday: Ford seemed a bit off so cancelled his PT appointment. He didn’t sleep well, I have been sleeping at night as he usually leaves the bedroom and I then have uninterrupted sleep. AA is doing well on her crutches. She is in pain but after seeing what Richard did with her leg yesterday at PT, she will be better as the weeks progress. 

I baked a pecan pie, homemade dough and filling. I goofed and left out the corn syrup even though I checked off each ingredient, the syrup was still in the measuring cup as I put the pie in the oven, so poured out filling and mixed it in - should be fine, but what a goof ball! Ford and I made a crockpot of chili (gave some to Mia, with pumpkin bread).

I drove to pick up Ginger’s prescriptions refills, put gas in Subaru, bought a few items at Publix and then Wendy’s burgers for lunch.

Mia came over after her work, took Madison’s countdown box. 

We went to RH, took cheese and crackers, Kathy did not come as both her sons were up for the Thanksgiving weekend.

Back home, ate our chili for dinner with store bought corn bread muffins. Continued helping AA with her cold pack and getting in and out of cutch, bed (lifting her leg).

Wednesday: Wednesday morning. I didn’t sleep after 11:00 pm, so went to couch and dozed. Continued helping AA with taking showers, icing her knee, getting meals, doing laundry and cooking. 

I baked two apple pies in the morning and do ahead mashed potatoes.

We washed dishes, washed the turkey roaster and cleaned the crock pot after having leftover chili for dinner.

AA and I went to Tinseltown cinema to watch Wicked (part 1). Leaa, Kilee, Liv and Dylan all enjoyed the dancing and singing. 

Thursday: Thanksgiving at Nicole's. Mila's birthday. Separate post.

Friday: I roasted a turkey, made mashed potatoes, green beans, gravy, stuffing and some cranberry sauce on the side. Used Grammie Merrill's china.

Saturday: From my Facebook post: Breakfast of Champions; Eat dessert first! So leftover apple pie for weekend breakfast. Yummy!

Broke out Grammie Merrill’s China for dinner last night and this morning’s apple pie: Larry and Charlotte’s silver dessert forks, Grandmother E-E’s cobalt blue goblets for our wine; Used Maine One Pie solid-pack pumpkin from my Mom Ann Caton Cobb for our pumpkin pie. Used Nana Joy, Kathy and my rolling pins making four pies.

We slept in which was nice as the weather has turned cold! 

I made another Irish soda bread but made a mistake of whisking the egg in with the buttermilk, should only be for the egg wash on the dough right before baking. And I over baked it by 5 minutes. 

We ate apple pie for breakfast - I posted on Facebook about it.

Ford and I went through all the Christmas gifts we have purchased so far, wrote down on a list, got organized. We found the box of Larry Bradley’s dad’s Smith and Wesson belt buckles, boxed up 11 for Justin.

I made a new recipe for our RH. Appetizer, crab dip - I didn’t care for it, Hugh and Maureen seemed to like it. 

We came home and heated up plates of turkey dinner leftovers. The box stuffing I used (Fresh Market brand) was not to our liking (still tasted like over seasoned croutons).

AA did her exercises and did a lot of homework - Spanish presentation and rewriting her Government notes.

Sunday: Cold morning, another 38 degrees. Made coffee for both Ford and I. Washed AA’s bedspread.

Went to church. First Sunday in Advent. Steve was there. Called Mom, good chat, she’s using ear pods so heard better with phone. Shopped at Publix. Ate leftover turkey and sides (again) and pie.

AA took shower. Ford napped. I made cooked carrots and onions for new casserole, tomorrow’s dinner. We called them visited Penny. Took lemons for her and Catherine.

Bought Christmas tree, glad they had plenty of lights under the tent - dark outside!

Back home, got tree in stand. I had developed a headache, so rested in bed for a while.