Happy Day after Thanksgiving!

Happy Day after Thanksgiving to everyone! We hope that whatever you did, you had a wonderful day and lots of yummy food! I know we did.

We prepped as much as possible on Wednesday. Hubby woke up at 3am to put the turkey breasts on the smoker. When we got up in the morning, we started the process for the day. We cleaned, moved furniture, set up tables, etc. Then we started cooking. We were preparing our dishes’. We made cheesy zucchini, dressing, roasted asparagus, and the turkey breasts. Our friend Glenn arrived about noon. He was frying a turkey. That process has to be done outside, so he was all bundled up, out frying a turkey for about an hour. It was in the mid-20’s!

Everyone was here by 2pm. Everyone brought several dishes. We had a delicious green bean dish someone brought; someone else brought mashed potatoes and gravy. My mom brought the sweet potatoes. There was so much food; you couldn’t fit everything on your plate! It took a few trips. Everyone seemed to be able to find something they enjoyed!

After dinner, we did some cleaning up, and starting the dishwasher. Thankfully I have lots of the glad containers. So, I pulled a bunch of them out and everyone loaded up whatever leftovers they wanted. It helped me to get rid of a lot of the food that there is no way Hubby and I could finish, and helped get rid of the accumulating containers I had!

Then we put the desserts out. Hubby and I didn’t make any desserts. Several people brought desserts. We had cookies, sweet potato and merange pie, pumpkin pie, apple cake, pecan pie, homemade whipped cream, apple pie, homemade vanilla bean ice cream… Everything was so delicious! We all had little bits of everything. Even Courtney had pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie and ice cream. And she loved it all.

People straggled out all evening, but our lasts guests left at 11pm. We left the kitchen a mess and went to bed, as we were exhausted. But it sure was a great day and the food was amazing! I look forward to doing it again next year!

Today we are waiting for the snow to start again. It’s going to be another cold day. Currently it’s 20 degrees out at 9am.

So, I guess kind of some big news is that I am going back to school. Not full time and with no real ambition of a degree in mind. But, I am planning to take a few marketing classes so I can figure out what I should be doing in my current position at work.

There are also several classes that I saw that interest me that have nothing to do with marketing. I may check into those as well.

Courtney goes to the Child Development Center at Pikes Peak Community College, Rampart Campus, which is where I will be taking classes. That means that we will get a discount on childcare as well. Of course we are in the midst of trying to decide if we want to leave her there or move her closer to home to somewhere that we are a little happier with the management staff. We need to look into it and soon. It’s going to be a tough decision!

Well, some of the leftovers in the fridge are calling me! I must go indulge again! Happy Black Friday!!!