I know, I know…everyone’s on full on Christmas/Holiday mode we are too. However, I cannot let this Thanksgiving go unnoticed (I’ll probably also do catch up entries on birthdays and Jamaica).
This was our 1st Thanksgiving in our new house. The rest of our family is in NJ and so it was just us 5 celebrating together this year. I decided to try to make it “formal” and that way our girls could learn and get familiar with table settings and the proper ways to do things with grace, elegance and proper manners. Besides, they’re always playing Princess Dress-Up, might as well learn etiquette too. – side note – I wish they had some type of etiquette / manners courses in schools…how to set the table properly and know which fork does what, etc. I know we, as parents can teach them, but sometimes it’s received differently when taught by a school teacher.
In any case, pDaddy and I agreed upon what we wanted to eat and so off I went doing groceries (almost everyday for a week, it seemed). Everything was homemade with the exception of Shrimp Cocktail and Dessert. I guess I could have made desserts too, but that’s ok. Turkey was marinated overnight and everything was ready and prepped for the next day.
I woke up early on Thanksgiving – I think I was just really excited to cook for my family. I haven’t cooked a Thanksgiving Dinner since ’08 / ’09 and I remember being half-assed about it. I woke up too early so I decided, to add to the formality of the luncheon, to make some menus. I found a template on line I liked and I cut and glued and punched away. I had to cut the papers by hand because my paper cutter was missing it’s blades (I hid them from the baby and I guess I hid them well b/c I still can’t find them). I wanted to make place cards as well, but I decided not to…no place card holders and I didn’t feel like cutting by hand anymore (spoiled, I know).
So, after that, I got breakfast going and got to cooking our luncheon. Here’s our Thanksgiving Day feast (no, we don’t do stuffing…I just never had it growing up). I hope you all had a great one 
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It’s been over 3 years since my first and last attempt at making cake pops/cupcake pops and the likes (pic on left). I made them for Razz’ 2nd Birthday party…Well, 3 years and 2 moves later – out of state nonetheless – I tried again! So, the moves made it inevitable that I would lose one of my molds (or maybe it’s still packed in some box somewhere)…the one that actually makes the cupcake bottom and the only ones I can find are too big, but we didn’t roll our balls out big enough this time around (wait, that sounded weird). Anyway, so we didn’t make cupcake pops this time and just made a few cakepops (the ones on a stick) and the rest as cakepoppers / cake pop bites or whatever you want to call them. Recipe used was by none other than Miss 
I also bought this puppy, but ended up not using it because I felt like it was cheating and the instruction manual had a lot of typos. I don’t know why that bothered me so much b/c it’s not like I’m perfect. I guess it’s because it’s a mass produced product and things like that should be looked upon more closely…especially for those who actually need to follow the instructions!
