Turkey Day Preparations!

Tomorrow is turkey day! Better known as national wear your stretchy pants day!  Does anyone remember the Friends episode where Joey went to change into his stretchy pants so that he could eat more of the Thanksgiving dinner Monica had made?  Friends made some good Thanksgiving day episodes during the shows run.  Remember the Geller Bowl?...where they all played football in the park, got locked out, and as a result their turkey burned up. That episode was sibling rivalry at it's finest!  Some televison channel should run a marathon of all Friends Thanksgiving episodes tomorrow!

We are going to Brad's family Thanksgiving.  They have a pot luck affair for all their family holiday get-togethers.  We signed up to bring a green bean casserole, a pecan pie, and my 7-Layer Dip with some chips.  I love making all three of the items we signed up for.  Well, actually there's not much I don't like to make! The difficult part about making a pie though is that it's more of a cross your fingers and hope it turned out well type of item!  With a cake or brownies or even cookies you can taste the batter but that's not exactly the case with a pie.  It looks great!  I just pulled it out of the oven a few minutes ago.  Simon was the master sous chef.  I kept "dropping" pecans for him to eat.  Pecans I came across that didn't look pretty enough for my pie went to the sous chef!

Thursday will start very early for me and the boys!  Did you hear that Cody?....you need to get up EARLY.  Cody is a night-owl, loves to stay up late and mornings are not his favorite unless it's a reasonable hour.  There's literally been Sunday mornings before church that I'm leashing Cody up and he's struggling to keep his eyes open. Sometimes he even sways a bit as if he's ready to collapse to the ground from all his tiredness.  We have a reasonably long drive to get to Brad's cousin's house so that's partly why the day will start so early.  I have the dip and the pie ready to go.  But tomorrow morning I have to make the green bean casserole plus take care of the boys, the morning will go by fast. 

Happy Turkey Day to all!