Food Food and more Food

Thanksgiving is my family's Holiday. Christmas is nice, Easter is good, but our main holiday is thanksgiving.
Now in my family we do it all day long. It gets a bit overwhelming if you did not grow up with it that way, but I am a native so it is kinda cool. We eat all day long too, seriously all day long. My family also runs well can we say a bit late, I mean hour late. So we plan out the day accordingly. It has been discovered that the best way to get everyone there on time (meaning: with in the first 3 hours) they are in charge of setting up or munchies. Now we set up around 10 in the morning so that the turkeys can start cooking.

So the food then is asked to be their at 11, and it starts wondering in about 12:30.

We do a pot luck dinner, and we always have enough food to feed our family and another army. Every one chooses something to bring, then we all bring other things because we are always sure that some one will forget something or that we might run out. We never run out of anything, for example, we had a small gathering this year (about 40) so we had 3 turkeys and 2 hams. No chance of running out of food in my family.

We also eat for hours, as each munchie arrives, late it gets put out, and we eat that until the next one arrives, with it all being put out about an hour apart we have food all day long. We sit down to eat, have our first helping and then my sweet cousin decides to give us a test on thanksgiving. It was pretty funny, but a test? We eat dinner again, clean the kitchen, play some more games, then start preparing dessert. By this time you realize you have been eating and nibbling non stop for the past 6 hours! Yet somehow you can still eat more.

Gosh I am now stuffed and as we were on our way home we stop at some friends house and they feel obligated to offer us food. How do you politely say If I eat another bite I will explode? Now we did invite them to dinner and if they had joined us then they would never dream of offering food, but they have never experienced our dinner or the sheer volume of food, so they didn't know what they were doing.

It was a very nice Thanksgiving. I love all of my cousins and their little ones, but the only little ones that we had this year were from out of town, so with only two it was pretty mellow and quiet. Very nice, and wee got to spend time with every one since we were not all running around chasing a kid here or there.

I hope your thanksgiving went well.

Some days....

I think I would get more done if I stayed in bed...(yes alone).

I just should have turned off the alarm and slept, but I knew Their was too much to get done for me to do that, but because I got up we have been running non stop trying to put each fire out one by one.

Josie broke a tooth, it is infected and has to go to the dentist.

Brianna woke up with swollen glands (might be strep ) and need to go to the Dr.

Mark got a flat tier and dew to family situations i was elected to go take care of it.

There was a wreck on South bay so there was a 20 min Waite.

Nathaniel still has therapy this afternoon.

My partner STILL has to go to work today.

We still have 8 cheer leading costumes to make...that are dew today.

AND theres still the business to run!

by the way mom too bissy cleaning and working to post so i had to type it for her. -Brianna.

UGGG!

Ok..So today is a very funky day for me. One of my family members had to go into town today to deal with some really difficult stuff. A sweet baby that we follow and pray for is in surgery. And I just got a phone call that has me very upset. Most likely out of proportion up set due to the other emotions going on.

I try to be a very supportive and understanding mother. Not the easiest job but worth it. I also try to be understanding of their father's limitations. NEVER easy. So today's call was from a family member asking how much time Josie was going to be actually dancing and if we really needed to try to get her father to go see her. I don't care if she was dancing for two minutes or was the main charter, she has auditioned, worked for the past two months, and sacrificed alot to do this show, who cares how much time she will be dancing. You go and watch your daughter take a closer step to realizing her dream. I have not moved two hours away from where we wanted to raise our kids. Moving was his choice, their have been many things he has chosen to miss due to living so far away, but for crying out loud, don't ask me to give him permission to flake on her again because it might not be the main part.

This ballet is very important to her. It is her first time performing for a ballet company, not her studio. Each time he flakes on her he looses another part of her life, that I can deal with, but I just hate to see how hurt she gets after a main event that he doesn't make it too. It has been many YEARS since he has seen her dance, and by her choice she has not seen him in about 2 months, so I really don't know if he could even pick her out on stage, with her growth spurt, costumes and not having seen her dance I don't think he would even know which one she is.

I am probably more upset than necessary, but I a very tiered of hearing how the ticket cost too much, with the long drive it makes it to long to make it to, and how he has to go see his son that day. It just makes me SO sad to see him miss so much of the beautiful little girls growing into amazing young ladies.

Sorry for just venting.. Alone with only children makes the blog world the perfect venting tool.