It has been awhile since I blog last. I have been super busy between homeschooling, house selling and work.

I hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving. We had my dad down here. I cooked up a 25 lb turkey for the four of us (tons of left overs let me tell you!). I also made up some Muddy Buddies (or puppy chow as my boss calls it) to bring up to my sisters for desert. Dad, Matt and I went up to my sisters for desert. For once, I didn't go all out with baking. Actually I didn't do any at all, my sister did instead. Although I was (and still am) craving a cheesecake. I may have to make myself one this week LOL. It was nice to see my daughter again (she is living with my sister) and she is doing great in school up there. Almost straight A's this term. She got a B in Algerbra because she dropped from the highest level class to the next highest and loss a grade level because of it. She technically failed the top level class.

I also started to put up our Christmas tree (or Yule tree as we call it). Normally it goes up the first Saturday of December, but with my dads cancer back again, we may not know how many Holidays he has left with us. He has been battleing cancer for like 7 years or so it seems. I wanted him to be part of the "experience". Well, Matt dwecidedthat video games were more fun and he disapeared into his room. My hubby was in the school room messing around on the comptuer. So it was me fighting with the stupid tree (it is fake btw) while my dad watched. His cancer is eating the muscles in his right arm (he actually has two broken muscles), so he couldn't help much. Just watch me get dizzy with stinging the lights on the tree. LOL. I ended up finishing the tree when we got back from my sisters.

I'll be posting the recipes I made for Thanksgiving, as well as the ones I am using for all our left overs. You should see how much turkey stock I was able to make with this huge carcass. (enough for 3 large soups and some extras for adding into recipes).

I am also going to be posting about this cool idea I have for a count down to Christmas. We celebrate both Yule and Christmas here so our normal Yule activities are included in this count down. More on it later.