Good morning to you ladies! Short work week for you and Jack has an all day "diversity" seminar so he only has to work on Tuesday and Wednesday. It is a good thing because the dog jumped off the bed all night long and won't jump back up, but sits and barks until you get up and put him on the bed. I have doggie steps, but he won't use them and right now, Jack doesn't want me getting up and picking him up.
Jack will vacuum after work tonight and I am going to dust upstairs this morning and then it is done. Whew, that bathroom was hard for me. It took me an hour to clean it as I would do a job and have to go in the bedroom and sit on the bed with the fan then tackle the next one. The tub was really hard for me, but it is all cleaned now and I will get upstairs first thing this morning and get the dusting done and then it will be ready for Thanksgiving except for a touch up.
I have 2 pies, cornbread dressing, and a pretzel salad to make for Thanksgiving. The pies are a snap because I am using Pillsbury pie crust dough that you just stick in the plate and then pie filling. The dressing is easy as I bought ready made cornbread cubes and just have to sweat some onions in some butter and combine it and the cubes with spices and chicken broth and bake and the prezel salad, though more involved I can sit and do in the kitchen if I have to by putting my computer chair at its highest level. I am going to do the pies and pretzel salad tomorrow and the dressing on Wednesday. Since the kids won't get in until around noon we are having Thanksgiving dinner in the evening.
Jean: Sounds like you had a houseful yesterday. The dinner sounds good. I love ham. In fact, Jay's old boss has a sister who owns Heavenly Ham in South Bend and he is going to get a ham from her and bring it so we have both smoked turkey and ham. We bought the turkey from the BBQ place across the street and they are smoking it so we shall see what everyone thinks. Jay and Alicia say that smoked turkey is really juicy and not dry and they really like it. I finally finished up T's Christmas yesterday. I ordered him 2 video games and 2 game point cards that he can use with his Wii machine and I guess it is like renting games or something. The baby comes next and I imagine we will go to Toys R Us the end of the month and get his stuff. If the boxes are big, I am just going to put bows on them because wrapping could be awful. We have a couple big things we want to get him that might be in big boxes. Since we have to travel, it will make it easier too.
Well, I best get things going downstairs before Jack gets up for breakfast.
Have a good start to the week everyone!
Faye