Chloe, excited & ready to go celebrate Thanksgiving!
I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving! This year I’ve made a point to talk with Chloe about being thankful and what that means. It’s been wonderful to take time and think about what we’re truly thankful for. 🙂 I feel incredibly blessed to have such wonderful family and friends, two adorable children and a husband who knows my weird quirks and loves me anyway!
Thanksgiving morning Tim played football with a bunch of church friends then we made our way out to the Bakers for the rest of the day. We had a delightful time eating and socializing. It was fun to just hang out with family with nothing pressing to do. It’s become a Thanksgiving day “tradition” to sit and read through the Black Friday flyers “ooohing” and “ahhing” over the deals, Plus, it give us “crazies” who want to go shopping, time to map out what stores we want to hit the next day.
The pinecone turkeys were eyeing the meat and cheese platter...
Grandma Patsy reading the kids a book while we wait for Thanksgiving Dinner
Speaking of Black Friday shopping… Tim & Jen decided to brave the crowds and try going to Walmart. Apparently they were starting their big sale at 10:00 on Thanksgiving night so instead of having to get up disgustingly early to shop, you could just stay up late. Sound appealing? If you said “yes” then you were like the rest of the world it would seem. Or at least Shakopee. Tim said it was crazier than the state fair–and that he would NEVER do that again. He said it was wall to wall people sometimes grabbing handfuls of stuff and all of the items were all set up in the isles making it impossible to move anywhere. If he hadn’t been with Jen he said he would have turned around and just come home. But he persevered. Out of the 5 things he went looking for he was only able to get 2 before they sold out–in the first 10 min. Yikes!
I, on the other hand, chose to get up early and go. The crowds were MUCH more manageable and I was able to get a bunch of things. I think of all the items I went looking for there was only 1 I couldn’t find. Amusingly, the longest line I stood in was at JoAnn fabric here in town. I waited for over 40 min. but it was worth it to get fabric and supplies to make a new piano bench cover at a really good discount. So, after this weekend we have pretty much all of our Christmas shopping done! Yippie!
Yesterday we were pretty much useless since both Tim and I were dead tired from being up late/early shopping so we didn’t do anything interesting. I didn’t get back home from shopping until after noon and then I spent another hour or two wrapping presents… So, today we needed to actually get some things done! Chloe and I made pancakes to start our morning on the right foot…
My little pancake helper!
After a yummy breakfast we dived into a busy day: cleaning the house, SIX loads of laundry, another trip to JoAnn fabric, and of course putting up all of our Christmas decorations! So, now our house is clean and festive! 🙂
I see those chocolate chips by the pancake batter. Chocolate chip pancakes, yum! I simply must try that some time. (I keep saying that…) And that is quite the little helper you have there.
How many were at the Friesen’s for Thanksgiving? That is an enormous amount of summer sausage!
haha! Yes, it was a LOT of summer sausage…