This year was the first time ever that Richard and I were spending Thanksgiving day alone. It was quiet but also nice that I did not have to get out of my pajamas the entire day.
I had been craving some old fashioned ginger-molasses cookies. After some digging I found the recipe I wanted. It was from the great-grandmother of one of my Girl Scouts and our troop had won a cookie bake-off with this recipe a long time ago. We munched on these babies all weekend.
Our table was set for Thanksgiving dinner for only the two of us.
We had our standard brined turkey, stuffed with onions, carrots, celery and thyme, all tossed together with butter. Adds some nice flavor to the soup we usually make with the carcass.
Friday morning I finished switching out all the regular glasses for our Christmas ones. It takes me the entire weekend to decorate the house for Christmas.
Here are our "kids", dozing and wondering what mom is up to.
Friday morning Richard had built a fire to take the chill out of the house and decided to take Morgan out with him to get a load of firewood off the front porch. Gives new meaning to taking out the dog.
Later on Friday morning we heading over to the tree farm where we choose and they cut our Christmas tree. Here is Richard and Floyd, the farm owner, following me as I hike through the trees looking for this year's tree.
Once we got the tree home and I had decorated it while Richard watched TV and napped (standard operating procedure)Richard got out the vacuum and cleaned up the needles that had fallen off. I love a man who knows how to use a vacuum.
Our Christmas tree, all decorated for the holidays.
On Saturday Fred, Iris and Felicia all stopped by on their way back to Louisisana. We invited our neighbors Doug and Wanda to join us for a dinner gathering. Left to right is Wanda, Fred and Iris.
I also snapped a picture of Doug engrossed in a conversation with Richard. (Sorry Wanda, bad timing on my part)
On Sunday I worked on finishing my son in-laws Christmas and birthday gift. I had been working on this stocking off and on for the better part of this year. My daughter said he was amazed when he opened it and couldn't believe that I had made it.
By Sunday night we were relaxing in front of the fire, watching TV and enjoying a martini. I had Morgan snuggled next to me and Kele was right up against my feet. What a great weekend we had.
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