Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

The boys and I had a GREAT day! We woke up and they were hungry! So, they ate some cereal and drank some milk. The kids stayed in their pajamas for most of the morning and we watched the beginning of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This was the first time they had the attention span for about 30 minutes to watch it!!! We made some calls to the grandparents and then I felt the need to clean. LOL So, the boys helped me clean their rooms, change the sheets, dusted and picked up the downstairs. I was able to vacuum upstairs and downstairs. When I finished I knew I was already behind schedule. We got ourselves ready and then headed out the door to Walgreens. Last night I uploaded pictures since September and picked them up today, so I can add them to scrapbooks. Then, we headed over to mom's to visit, set the table, etc. POP-POP WAS THERE!!!! He his home for good!!!! He was scheduled to get discharged this morning. I had this vision that he would be waiting in the lobby of the rehab facility at 7am waiting and waiting for mom to go get him! Mom told me she would be getting him by 10am. I guess at 9:20am he called mom asking where she was!!!! hahahahahahahahaha Too funny! He's getting around just great. He has lost some weight, but probably gained some back after tonight's dinner!!!! Maybe I should enter a rehab facility? LOL ;)

We came home for a few hours to get Gavin down for a nap and to make sweet potato casserole (with the marshmallows on the top!!). We headed back to mom's and took a walk before getting ready for a nice meal! The boys enjoyed leftover pizza from last night's dinner. Ya know...whatever, right?! I am not a big fan for Thanksgiving food and it has taken 32 years for me to actually eat some of it. It was a battle I didn't want to have with them!!! So, pizza it was for them and they LOVED it! It was the boys, my mom, my grandparents and our friend Pam. Mom made a great meal (of course), but the best was dessert. She made pumpkin pie, cherry pie (I was trying to tell the others it wasn't all that great...hehehehehehe) and an apple crumb pie. Pam brought a pumpkin roll cake. Wow. We were all enjoying it! Even the kids ate pie!

This holiday brings back lots and lots of memories. We spent many Thanksgivings with my relatives in New York and going into NYC for the Macy's Parade. They spent the holiday sometimes with us growing up in Vermont. It is tradition that we watch "Planes, Trains and Automobiles"...but it's just not the same sometimes. I miss my cousins!!! Oh and when Jay would bring a big bag of chicken fingers from Friendly's the night before Thanksgiving! That's what Ashley and I would eat on Turkey Day!!! YUM!!! When I lived in California, I went with a few coworkers and some student athletes from SFSU to deliver Thanksgiving meals to the elderly before meeting up with my relatives/family with their friends for a nice meal. Then spending Thanksgivings with Cailean in Vermont, but then it seemed fitting that he would tend to get a deer on Thanksgiving night. Yup, good ole Neal would get called to duty to help his brother track the deer and okay...going into some detail!

Anyway...we had a very nice day today and looking forward to another fun-filled day tomorrow. We're headed to see Polar Express at the IMAX theatre with some friends! Yup, we splurged and treated ourselves!!!!