I think it's safe to say that Thanksgiving 2014 was a success! Thanksgiving is always one of my favorite holidays. Think about it, the day focuses on food and being thankful for the giant plate of delicious goodies that you get to consume and no one judges you for getting your second or third plate because they've already refilled their plates as well. Then you get to spend the remainder of the day watching football and planning out your Black Friday shopping strategy and of course, eat leftovers! It's a total win-win!
Mom and Dad came down to spend Thanksgiving with us this year. We ended up having a smaller crowd than we did last year, but it was still a great Thanksgiving and don't worry, we had plenty to eat. It's totally normal to have 3 turkeys, a turkey breast, and 2 hams for 6 people, right? In my defense I only planned on having 2 turkeys (I buy small ones for frying so we can have one to eat that day and plenty of leftovers) and one ham. I did not know the other meat was coming until the day of. Long story short, we're doing our best but we still have a ton of leftovers in the fridge. I am going to attempt to grind up some of the turkey meat to make meatloaf this week. I'll let you know how it goes.
Back to Turkey Day...Since we only had 6 for our Thanksgiving meal, I made the executive decision to pull out our wedding china and have a nice sit-down meal. I am pretty sure that's the first time we've ever used more than 2 of the dinner plates at one time...in 4.5 years. It's not that we don't entertain (obviously), but we tend to not entertain on a fancy scale like ever.
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| Planning his Black Friday Strategy |
Mom and I continued our Gray Thursday boycott, but were up bright and early on Friday to hit the sales. We left the house at 6AM and didn't pull back into the driveway until 3PM. We decided that although we don't participate in Gray Thursday, we like it because the early AM store crowds on Black Friday were non-existent. It didn't really pick up until after about 10AM. We only had a few major items on our list and were able to find all of those things and then some. We really did score some great deals and knock out a lot of Christmas shopping. I think I have 95% of mine done as of today, which is a first for me. Of course the year I am not coaching is the year I get everything done early....go figure.
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| They absolutely LOVE their costumes, don't they?! |
Saturday morning Mom and I headed back to Montgomery for round 2 (sort of), while Dad headed to the golf course....Eric left Friday afternoon for a duck hunting excursion. The purpose of our trip back to town was for a Christmas Tree! Being a live Christmas Tree aficionado my entire life, this is serious business. We've gotten a Costco Christmas Tree the past 4 years and they are beautiful (and you can't beat the price!) The only kicker is that you have to get them Thanksgiving weekend or you are SOL because they usually only get one truck. We snagged one and after meeting Dad for lunch (we were a bit turkeyed out after 4 straight meals of Thanksgiving food), we headed home to decorate. A few hours later the house was starting to look like a winter wonderland! We barely made it through the Iron Bowl Saturday night...I think I slept through most of the 3rd quarter, but woke up in time to see the Tide pull out an uncharacteristically high scoring game.
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| It's officially Christmas Time at the Cagle household! |
Mom and Dad had to hit the road on Sunday morning so I spent the rest of the day finishing up decorating and trying to psyche myself up for the week. Five whole workdays where I have to dress in proper business attire for most of them is going to be tough, but I do have a couple of Christmas parties to look forward to so that should be a nice distraction. Eric got home that night and we continued to power through the leftovers only with the addition of duck meat which I actually ate this time.
Happy December!
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