Wednesday I had my Thanksgiving with my kids, since they were at their dad's Thursday. Chase got to be an integral part of making Thanksgiving dinner this year. We dropped Chloe off at daycare Wednesday morning and he got to fight the grocery store crowds with me to get everything we needed for our dinner. He wanted pumpkin roll so he got to help me make it!
I had never made it before and it did NOT turn out well. The cake refused to come out of the pan, and no matter how long I put it in the oven for, it just wouldn't "get done!" We had to scrap it. As I was scraping it into the trash can, cussing under my breath, I said, "Chase, maybe we should make pumpkin cheesecake instead" (my specialty!) and he said, "No, Mom.... Pumpkin roll." Great. So I turned it into a teaching moment and said, "OK, let's try again! We don't give up when we fail!" As soon as we started the second batch I realized what we did wrong the first time: We put 3 cups of sugar in it when the recipe only called for 1. Oops. That'll do it!
So the second batch turned out just fine, but I walked away looking a bit overtaken by the fight. The pumpkin roll fought dirty with the powdered sugar. Not nice.
While I cleaned up our mess Chase made the Thanksgiving turkey:
OK, we did have real turkey (I didn't make a whole one or anything, but Chase insisted we had to have turkey on Thanksgiving so I did what I could!). We were also blessed with Katie's homemade mac & cheese and her fabulous cornbread casserole (OMG! So good)!
Then on Thursday Katie and I made another Thanksgiving dinner just for us: Lasagna, garlic bread and salad. That night we went to the movies and saw the new James Bond flick. It was so good we literally held our bladders for the last hour and a half of it because we didn't want to miss anything! Afterwards we drove by Target to make fun of all the people in line at 7:30pm and decided to take our picture in front of Bed Bath and Beyond and pretend we were first in line (just because we're dorks like that):
Then we went home, got into our PJ's and watched another movie while we enjoyed our Thanksgiving dessert.... Cheesecake Factory cheesecake! Oh MY.... To die for.
Friday we decided to spend the afternoon in Austin for a "little" shopping and dinner. We may not have been first in line for anything, but we were definitely the last:
It was such a great holiday break, and so needed after the wild and crazy life I have had lately! Now it's time to start the countdown....
30 DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS!!!!
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