Chicken's Mom: January 2012

Friday, January 13, 2012

Kansas Thanksgiving: Day 4 - Black Friday and Day 5 - Homeward Bound

Elliott waited until Thursday night to have a meltdown about sleeping with the DVD player upstairs and insisted on sleeping on the loveseat downstairs. That wouldn't be important if my mom hadn't been planning to sneak off to Target at midnight to buy my Kindle. We didn't get much sleep, and the wee hours of Black Friday came even rougher because of it. All 5 of us trudged to Manhattan (only 20 minutes away) to secure our deals.

We even managed our yearly visit with Santa while we were there!

Even with altering our sleep patterns, it made for some tired drivers starting home on Saturday. And I will never let my mother forget what a whiner she was. Granted, we drove the first 8 hours (non-stop, no joke) in the rain, but that doesn't call for being the worst rider in a car...beating out the 6 year old.

Kansas Thanksgiving: Day 3 - Turkey Day!

At the very end of our shopping trip at the Commissary, I finally found cornmeal. I had two options, a huge sack or a container. I opted for the container for convenience...

So, this was my first Thanksgiving to ever be in charge of the cooking. On the menu:

Turkey
Dressing*
Gravy
Squash casserole
Sweet potato casserole
Black-eyed peas*
Cranberry sauce
Crescent rolls
Pumpkin pie

I did the prep work on Wednesday night, making the work on Thursday not that stressful. I say that, but then again I burned the peas. Obviously peas were the easiest thing on the menu, but my multitasking got a little out of hand. Also, I knew it was odd that my cornbread was very dense. And dense cornbread leads to dense dressing. It took days and discussion with my mother-in-law before I realized I had bought STRAIGHT cornmeal with no self-rising capability. AHA! All in all, though, my meal was a success.