9 Kislev/26 November, 2009
Nov. 26th, 2009 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyHappy Thanksgiving to all!
I like Thanksgiving as a holiday, all the food is sort of comfort food and it is kind of a nice break. I obviously never knew about it in my childhood but over the year we sort of adopted it. Mama always makes a turkey now, only not with stuffing but with mushrooms and rice. Today was a nice full day.
In the morning, with breakfast (and after watching Bear work out a bit), we watched a bit of Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade. Some of the songs and kid’s stuff was really cheesy but it definitely put us all in the holiday mood. Bear’s Mom put the turkey in the oven at 10:15 and it was my job to watch it since they were leaving to visit Bear’s Grandma for a bit (she lives in a Catholic nursing home type place). It took over four hours. Meanwhile I also made baked potatoes and Bear made the green bean casserole. We also went to return “Up” and took a little walk in a nice crispy November air. We had some lunch too, consisting of some smoked salmon and we watched the National Dog show which was cute and weird at the same time. After the turkey finally popped at 2:30 or so, it was out turn to visit Bear’s Grandma. We went there for about an hour, maybe a bit more. She seemed in good spirits.
When we got home, it was almost time for dinner. This year it was just Bear and his parents and me, but it was nice and cozy. I had a big full plate of a baked potato, green-bean thing, turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, gravy, a bit of mushrooms and possibly some other food I don’t remember. It was all delicious and I cleaned my plate. After dinner and a bit of a break where I just read for a bit, we had dessert of the most delicious apple pie Bear’s Mom makes, my muffin bread and the Belgian chocolates my parents sent over with tea and coffee. We also watched Thanksgiving Charlie Brown special, which I never saw before and I thought it was very cute.
In late evening, Bear and I watched J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek.” I’ve seen it in a movie theater with Papa in May and it was definitely the most fun I’ve had at the movies this year. Nice story and action and with a very Star Treky feel. I could even ignore the plotholes because I had so much fun. Bear was skeptical about it, but I knew I would make him watch it when DVD came out. So we finally watched it together today. While he still likes original actors and doesn’t want to acknowledge the total awesomeness of this version, he conceded that this movie would play well on the big screen.
Overall, it was a very nice Thanksgiving.
I like Thanksgiving as a holiday, all the food is sort of comfort food and it is kind of a nice break. I obviously never knew about it in my childhood but over the year we sort of adopted it. Mama always makes a turkey now, only not with stuffing but with mushrooms and rice. Today was a nice full day.
In the morning, with breakfast (and after watching Bear work out a bit), we watched a bit of Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade. Some of the songs and kid’s stuff was really cheesy but it definitely put us all in the holiday mood. Bear’s Mom put the turkey in the oven at 10:15 and it was my job to watch it since they were leaving to visit Bear’s Grandma for a bit (she lives in a Catholic nursing home type place). It took over four hours. Meanwhile I also made baked potatoes and Bear made the green bean casserole. We also went to return “Up” and took a little walk in a nice crispy November air. We had some lunch too, consisting of some smoked salmon and we watched the National Dog show which was cute and weird at the same time. After the turkey finally popped at 2:30 or so, it was out turn to visit Bear’s Grandma. We went there for about an hour, maybe a bit more. She seemed in good spirits.
When we got home, it was almost time for dinner. This year it was just Bear and his parents and me, but it was nice and cozy. I had a big full plate of a baked potato, green-bean thing, turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, gravy, a bit of mushrooms and possibly some other food I don’t remember. It was all delicious and I cleaned my plate. After dinner and a bit of a break where I just read for a bit, we had dessert of the most delicious apple pie Bear’s Mom makes, my muffin bread and the Belgian chocolates my parents sent over with tea and coffee. We also watched Thanksgiving Charlie Brown special, which I never saw before and I thought it was very cute.
In late evening, Bear and I watched J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek.” I’ve seen it in a movie theater with Papa in May and it was definitely the most fun I’ve had at the movies this year. Nice story and action and with a very Star Treky feel. I could even ignore the plotholes because I had so much fun. Bear was skeptical about it, but I knew I would make him watch it when DVD came out. So we finally watched it together today. While he still likes original actors and doesn’t want to acknowledge the total awesomeness of this version, he conceded that this movie would play well on the big screen.
Overall, it was a very nice Thanksgiving.
