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Best part/Worst part of your Thanksgiving
This board is sooooo slow!
What was the best part of your holiday? The worst part?
Any funny stories to share? Exciting recipes? Anything??
Mom to Alex - 8.29.06, Foster - 1.22.09, Emily - 6.24.11
Re: Best part/Worst part of your Thanksgiving
Best: 4 day weekend, accomplished quite a bit of Christmas shopping on Friday crowd-free (benefit of a small town), took C to ride a real steam train
Worst: a tie goes to the horrible Aggie loss and the 9+ hours spent in the car with a less than enthusiastic toddler just wanted to "get out."
Overall, it was a good trip. I needed more sleep, that's for sure. But I got things accomplished, didn't work like I planned (probably a good thing) and we had fun at the train. Though as soon as we got on it, C decided he wanted to ride in the car. Not the train. :-/ I think he's afraid of the dark.
Best part: Spending time in the kitchen with the girls like I remember doing with my mom. I'm so proud that they are becoming wonderful bakers/cooks.
Worst part: Spilling just out of the microwave coffee on myself and scalding my stomach. It hurt worse than anything I've ever experienced and it still looks horrible.
Funny story: Tori told Mall Santa that she already mailed him a letter and he should have read it so she's not telling him what she wants for Christmas.
Great new recipe: Cranberry Chess Pie
Best Part: Spending time with my husband, parents, and brother.
Worst Part: I have two. Wishing my sister & niece were here; holidays just aren't as fun without a small kid around. And a conversation that I had with DH's cousin that was insensitive & awful; she used to be my favorite of his family members.
Best part: belated honeymoon in Costa Rica. Great weather at the beach. Loved rafting in class III - IV river and Thanksgiving morning horse ride on the beach to a waterfall.
Worst part: getting sick.- congestion and GI issues.
Funny story: DH says he does not like riding horses (they have no throttle or bakes like his motorcycle). Well now he has another thing to add to that list. Horses have no 4 wheel lock. His horse was walking through a stream that flowed into the ocean when a wave hit and spooked the horse. He stopped in the center of the stream in the sand. DH had to dismount and get the guide to "unstick" his horse. Now he tells everyone he sunk a horse.
What was the best part of your holiday? J was off the entire week. Got to see tons of family. I drank a ton of cranberry margaritas.
The worst part? The drive. Getting to my grandma's after 6+ hours in the car with a pissed-off toddler and realizing it was a dry county. Waiting forever to get a table at Chilis (the only place that serves booze if you have some 'special' card).
Kreeper - that sounds like a very nice, relaxing weekend. (minus the long car ride) Did you get some good black friday deals?
Krisb - the burn sounds awful! But the part about Tori is hilarious.
The best part for me was just spending a lot of time with the kids and family. It was nice to have a few lazy days at home with them. We drank hot chocolate and watched Christmas movies. It was really nice.
The worst part - hmmmm..... there really wasn't anything too awful. It was a pretty good weekend!!
best: i got to spend a lot of time with dh and dd, which i missed after a very hectic football season. got to hang out with my sister, and we cooked an awesome thanksgiving dinner together and did a little shopping. my sister also introduced me to pinterest - totally addicting.
worst: my parents weren't there for thanksgiving. 4 bites in to my thanksgiving dinner my tummy decided to start acting up (hurt so bad i thought i might have been in labor) and i hardly got to eat anything the rest of the day.
Best Part: My sister helped me cook(usually I do it all by myself) while DH and her b/f watched football. We were telling stories, laughing and talking about our family. For some reason it made me feel like home. First time a holiday has ever felt like that for me in Houston.
Worst: Learning how to cook around an egg allergy. Plus the pumpkin pie had eggs in it so I ate most of it by myself........
Best part: Spending time with family. It's been 4 years since we had a Thanksgiving that wasn't just us and it was really nice to be "home".
Worst part: DH got on my nerves. He'd been off for almost 2 weeks and we were tired of looking at each other. My FIL was in town and wanted to take my oldest nephew and G to Chuck E Cheese. We didn't want G to go, so we said no and FIL acted like we were preventing him from having a relationship with his grandson. He has seen G exactly three times in his life (this past weekend was the 3rd time, I've only seen him 5 times in 6 years) and I'm not letting a practical stranger take him to Chuck E Cheese. Plus you have two other grandkids and three kids that live here that you completely ignore.
best: nothing in particular; everything was pretty great (family, food, time off, etc)
worst: aggies losing
best: pretty much all was good especially having my parents over and my in-laws in town - my ILs painted our guest bath, changed our lights in our master bath, washed all our dishes, and cleaned our cats litter box....oh and changed my oil, and washed and vacuumed both our cars...my in-laws are amazing
worst: maybe only getting maybe 4 hours of sleep after my black friday excursion...
This one was very blah.
Best: Four day weekend! I made everything but the turkey and dressing, so it was all fairly healthy and I didn't blow my diet.
Worst: DH wasn't home. My BFF and her family came up and after we ate, she informed me that she was asking her husband for a separation on Saturday. I knew they were having problems and I was under the impression she was going to wait until January, so it was already kind of sad for me to know it would be the last one we'd spend with them as a family. Then to find out it was happening much sooner and before Christmas...so sad.
Best: Close 3-way tie between quiet time with DH (M was with her grandparents from Fri-Sun), finishing M's Disney dresses, and spending snuggle time with her on Sunday after not seeing her for a few days.
Worst: Nothing really bad except I apparently caught a cold Sunday evening that hit me yesterday. It better go away STAT. I'm doing 10 hours of train-the-trainer between today through Thursday and don't have time for this.
Oh and Maddie's face and expression when she got mad that I made her stop watching our Sunday movie and go wash her popcorn butter hands. She looked so pitiful and said to me, over her shoulder as she walked down the hall, "You were being SO nice to me and now you are being SO mean. What kind of mother does that to a child she hasn't seen in 3 days?" Followed by slow pitiful tears.
Just because I didn't want greasy butter hands on the white/yellow couch. She is so mistreated.
- Paula Deen to 104.1 KRBE's Producer Eric 9/17/2011
Not bad...I found a "big truck" from Santa and a train set for a great price at Kohl's. Most of what we bought wasn't crazy on sale, but it was on sale enough + the fact that we were there...we are almost finished shopping. I'm putting shopping for DH off until I'm in Austin for work.
Best - I ate and drank too much
Worst - I ate and drank too much
Hah! Pretty much this.
Aside from all the family stuff we got a lot done around the house, nothing big and exciting but a lot of little things.
having it to yourself should go in the best column!
worst part: MIL, but I've whined enough about her already
best part: awesome double date at the melting pot the night before thanksgiving. we had so much fun and we really found a couple we hit it off with here.
and standing in line for 2 hours at toys r us on black friday wasn't fun, but I kept rubbing at my stomach and realized I can feel something. one of the babies was pushed up against me and you could clearly feel what felt like a spine. Now I can feel some random part daily, I can't tell if it's the same kid all the time or what but finally there is a bonus to an anterior uterus!
Best - Spent time with good friends in Michigan and had a wonderful time. Eating drinking and being merry. **And got a GREAT recipe for a new drink!! woot
Worst - Finding out that Beau was alone on Tday - No kids, no turkey, nada. Made me super sad.
Funny thing.. Saturday night we went to my friends next door neighbor's house for a get together. We were all down in the basement talking, drinking and I was talking to the hostess. Come to find out, and unbeknownest to my friend, she graduated in 1983 from Klein HS and had competed in the Miss Tomball Pagent! Talk about a Small world!!
Best: Getting to see friends. Finalizing details for our move back. thanksgiving STUFFING! OMG THE STUFFING!
Worst: the tension that my mother and my husband perpetuate it really really sucks!
Worst - I was at work so I didn't get to spend it with my family.
Best - One of the doctors had lunch catered for our unit so we had a great meal. It wasn't too terribly busy at work. And DH & the kids stopped by to see me on the way home from his parents house.
Best - actually getting to have Thanksgiving. I was expecting to be taking care of a newborn at home and not be up for doing anything. Instead, my sister and her family and my parents came over and we had a pretty good spread for getting stuff the night before. DH fried 2 turkey breasts - they were so juicy and moist, I had sandwiches the next 2 days, and I rarely like eating leftovers. I also made a pumpkin pie for the first time, and it was really simple and turned out really good!
Worst - Nothing, really.