Turkey

Turkey Day

For Thanksgiving yesterday, I decided to make my first pie ... ever.  I've never made a pie before.  When you have a mom who makes the most excellent pies ever, there's really no reason to do it yourself.  However, she wasn't here this year and I wanted to have some buttermilk pie, so I baked my first pie.  And I put whiskey in it!  And I put vodka in the crust!  And I had TWO beers at Thanksgiving dinner, which made me very, very tipsy indeed.  Then, being the classy guest I am, immediately after dinner, I headed up to the Gs' guest room and took a nap.  Yep, I'm so very classy like that.

I must elaborate on the beers.  I found the only beer that I like at New Seasons: Frambozen.  They only make it around the holidays and they typically run out of it by mid-December.  I haven't been able to find it in years.  I was so happy that I bought two six packs.  Yes, two! 

We spent most of the afternoon and early evening at the Gs' house enjoying dinner and chatting.  Dinner was delicious.  I ate way too much.  Way, way too much.  But Thanksgiving dinner is my absolute favorite, so it had to be done. 

Three kids

The Gs had their date night tonight.  D went to the Trailblazer's game, so I was on solo duty with the three kids.  Thankfully, it was a piece o' cake.  Everyone ate very well and followed instructions.  When it was time to put Nolan down, I told him to say goodnight to Elise and Avery, so he turned waved night-night to both of them, then grabbed my hand and happily led me to "his" room.  After he drank a couple of bottles of milk, I put him in the crib fully awake, he rolled right over and then went to sleep.  The girls also went to sleep very, very easily tonight.  In fact, all kids were asleep by 7:30.  I run a tight ship here at CdT. 

Holiday spirit

Dare I say I've got some holiday spirit?  We put the tree up this morning.  I even put on Christmas music at Avery's request - not too loud, of course.  Tonight, after the kids were asleep, I made gift tags.  Finally! A use for scrapbooking tools.  I am not a scrapbooker at all, but I love the tools and supplies, so I'm always searching for a use for them.  Turns out, I like make gift tags.  Who knew?  They're pretty rudimentary, but I can see them getting a bit fancier the more I do them.  Or not.  I'm crazy like that.

Nook

Avery's BD nook is coming along.  I have the paint and carpet.  I first tried Target for the carpet, but the carpets were $160 and up for the size I need.  I found one at Ross for $25 - much more reasonable. I also remembered that I bought a couple of strings of lights shaped like bumblebees a year or so ago thinking I'd find some way to use them for Avery.  The nook will be the perfect place for them!

Both D and my mom expressed minor concern of what happens if Avery gets stuck in the nook, so I'm going to buy a wireless intercom system as a precaution.  Plus, I'm quite sure Avery will have hours and hours of fun playing with the intercom. 

Tangled

We saw Tangled this afternoon.  Avery enjoyed it, as did D and I.  I particularly liked that Rapunzel was so very capable even though she thought she wasn't.

The trailer for a new Yogi bear movie played before Tangled.  In the car on the way home, Avery repeated a few lines from the trailer, so I think it's a good bet we'll end up seeing that movie, too.