We had Thanksgiving dinner at our house. Grandma D., Grandpa T., and cousin L. joined us. I spend pretty much the whole morning making the traditional turkey (butterflied), dressing, and giblet gravy, plus pumpkin pie with real whipped cream for dessert. Yum, I don’t think I ate anything after that meal until dinner the following day.

Friday morning, Jennifer and Anna drove Grandma D. and Grandpa T. up to L.A. to visit Grandpa T.’s grandkids. I spent the entire day, and most of Saturday, and part of Sunday doing work, mostly the sort of stuff that I can’t do when my customers are working.

Saturday everybody was tired. Jennifer and Anna were asleep by 7:30pm, and I was down at 9:30pm. Everybody slept until 6:20am and all was right with the world.

Sunday, Jennifer officially joined the ranks of soccer moms by buying a minivan. She’s out in the garage playing with it now. The thing is just enormous; it will take some rearranging of stuff in there to make getting in and out of the house possible with that monstrosity in the way. The old Blazer looks downright petite by comparison.

I also put up the Christmas lights and the Christmas tree; since we’re actually going to be here this year, I invested in some new lights, and have more lights up than we have had in the past.