Thanksgiving and being sick

This past week has been fun and then hard.
Thanksgiving went ultra smooth. I brined the turkey again, and it came out wonderful. Even the slightly sarastic member of the family was singing praises. This is the preecooked turkey, it was so darn good we forgot to take a picture of it when it was done. . Even though I hate mashed potaoes everyone else loves them. I used our new handy dandy kitchen aid mixer. Popped in quartered, boiled potatoes, some cream and flipped the switch, perfect mash potatoes in minutes! Tries some new recipes that people seemed to love, sautéed green beans and mushrooms, cooked in sherry and then topped with toasted slivered almonds. Yum.

Much food was consumed. Then we played Apples to Apples. Now my mother and her sisters were a little excited and John found it a tad bit difficult explaining the game to them. They were more challeneging that his sophmores. But they got it and seemed to enjoy the game. John made extra points when he compared weddings to the Bataan Death March. Ahh good times…. The cleaning then started, several dishwasher loads, moping, and cleaning later the kitechn was back to its normal beauty. Gconnor and mconnor stopped by and we played more games. It was ncie to see ‘em.

The next day was Thanksgiving at the Stepmothers. Good time was had by all. Work up the next moring … sore throat.

Spent the next 6 days on the couch. Cancelled all other family functions. Not fun. So out of it, I couldn’t even play any games! Lucky I had little kitten to keep me company. Kitten and Zori are now pretty good freidns they play a lot. Zori will chase kitten across the loving room. Then suddenly kitten is chaging Zori across the other way. No claws, and no mews, so its all good. Kitten’s name you ask?

*drum roll*

Lego Thanks Adam for your fine fine suggestion.