Happy Turkey Day!!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Great Thanksgiving and give thanks to all of you who take the time out of your busy lives to visit this site. You are all such a great part of my life whether you know it or not and I for one appreciate every single one of you. Thank you!

its kind funny cuz every turkey day I would come to the roomies house and enjoy a wonderful dinner with her and her family and now I live here and cook it too!! How great is that. Were having about 13 - 14 people over. We've got a turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing all the fixings, deserts, nibblers you name it. Its going to be a great day and an early night for me since I have to work tomorrow at 5 AM!!! Just shoot me.

its going to be a long day tomorrow. Blitz day, black Friday, day after day, whatever you want to call it, for me...Its a 16+ hour day of craziness!!!
overtime is going to be lovely.

I remember back in the day when thanksgiving was at our house every year and my mom would cook and bake for about a month and drive us crazy with cleaning and cooking, making sure everything was done so that we could sit down for 10 minutes and eat. LOL would crack me up every time. Exaggeration of course....But that is what it felt like. Being Italian we had courses. First came the antipasto salad that my aunt and uncle would bring which was always good. Italian bread everywhere and my mom would bring out the favorite of the bunch....Stuffed artichokes. I would kill for one right now. She probably made some sort of pasta dish too but that lasted a good hour. Then we rested. Then dinner which was a feast of yummy dishes I couldn't even describe right now. Of course there was turkey, stuffing, at least 2 or 3 veggies, all the different potatoes, all of them.....Just all kinds of goodies we would eat at the big table we had to extend out for all of us. Then we rest. Then the desert which everyone loved. My mom would bake all kinds of stuff and my aunt would make the pies and candies and oh. My. God. It was just good. Its been a long time since we have gotten together like that and I miss it. I miss my family a lot around the holidays. Its really hard sometimes. As much as I love my friends and appreciate how there families always make sure I have someplace to go....It would be nice to have some of my family here, or too see them more often. Its been about 3 years since I've seen my mom and that is just not cool at all. But I talk to her all the time and I know she's ok.

well now I need to go get some laundry done before I need to start mashing potatoes. I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy the day with your families. God Bless you all!!

Hugs, Jeannine