We had an enjoyable Thanksgiving Day. I hope you, gentle reader, did as well.
Dinner was hosted by my parents. Along with my family, excluding the girl (who had fled the state for the week), attending dinner there were Brother Jon's family, Sister Mary's family, and Heather and her wee bairns. And my parents were there, too, since it was their house after all.
For dinner we had turkey, hot dogs (for those who don't eat turkey), mashed taters, corn stuff, two kinds of stuffing (double the goodness), some sort of weird red gelatinous substance (my wife claimed it was something called "canned cranberry"), black olives, and gravy. Lots of gravy. Thanksgiving dinner just would not be complete without gravy. Why? Because gravy makes it better. Mmm...
But I digress.
After dinner, some of us shuffled into the family room where we watched the remainder of the annual Thanksgiving football game, at which NFL players give thanks by tackling each other. Then we watched Judge Judy scold people for being idiots. The kids played board games, with the older kids playing one board game where they followed the rules of play, and the younger ones playing another board game in which the game pieces became fascinating toys.
My wife, Sarah (with an "h"), and I celebrated Black Friday, the big day after Thanksgiving day of super-duper sales, by not shopping. Though The Doug did go out super early with his hunting friends... he was successful! Actually, I did go out later in the day for duct tape ("it can fix anything!"). And I put up the exterior Christmas lights, since walking around on the roof is one of my favorite pastimes. Then that night, we all got stomach flu. That was fun. But we're all feeling much better now. Especially now that it's snowing! (see FSOTY post)
